The third and final day of Committee stage before the House of Lords took place yesterday, 22 October. The transcript can be found here. As … Read More ›
Category: Legislative developments
The second day of Committee stage before the House of Lords took place yesterday, 15 October. The transcript can be found here. As per my … Read More ›
The minutes of the Tribunal Procedure Committee in July have just been published and show that controversial proposed rule changes have been abandoned. Relevant extract … Read More ›
The annexes have now appeared on the Bill documents page to the letter sent by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 24 July 2018 to peers following second reading … Read More ›
To some extent, those responsible for pulling together the NICE guideline (NG 108) on decision-making and mental capacity published on 3 October were in an … Read More ›
The first day of the Lords Committee stage of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill took place on 5 September. The Hansard transcript can be found … Read More ›
A one-off 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report just (Monday 3 Sept) published analyses the Bill in detail and provides a range of perspectives ahead … Read More ›
“[The Law Commission] is made up of lawyers, so they prefer law but there are other ways of doing things.” In a perhaps telling phrase, … Read More ›
Acting considerably more quickly than many had expected to give effect to its commitment to legislate to act upon Law Commission’s Mental Capacity and Deprivation … Read More ›
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill has been published. More detail and commentary will follow in the 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report next week, but … Read More ›