In this ‘in conversation’ with, I talk to Dr Elisabeth Alton about the pilot forensic service to support safeguarding adults that she has led on, … Read More ›
As the Court of Protection Law Reports series has been discontinued by LexisNexis, the Court of Protection has lost a dedicated series of headnoted reports. … Read More ›
The July 2023 39 Essex Chambers Mental Report is now out. Highlights this month include: 1. In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: … Read More ›
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust v HJ [2023] EWFC 92 concerned the question of whether specific authorisation is required to administer physical health treatment … Read More ›
Wiltshire County Council v RB & Ors [2023] EWCOP 26 concerned a 29 year old woman diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Since 2015 she had been … Read More ›
Warrington Borough Council v Y & Ors [2023] EWCOP 27. This application concerned Y, who was in her early twenties. Y had been diagnosed with … Read More ›
The Scottish Government has today (28 June 2023) published its response to the independent review of mental health, capacity and adult support and protection legislation, … Read More ›
Making Decisions in Compulsory Mental Health Work (edited by Jill Hemmington and Sarah Vicary, Policy Press, 2023, 203 pages, c £24.99) To get the bad … Read More ›
[In an extremely helpful, but depressing, report published on 22 June 2023, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory analysed applications received during the first two months … Read More ›
Registration closes at 12 noon on 29 June for the Third UK and Ireland Mental Diversity Law Conference – 6th & 7th July 2023, to … Read More ›