The January 2021 Mental Capacity Report is now out and will be making its way to inboxes soon. Highlights include; (1) In the Health, Welfare … Read More ›
Building on the very headline points I made here, here is a video looking specifically looking at how the White Paper published on 13 January … Read More ›
The Government published on 13 January 2021 a White Paper responding to the recommendations of the independent review of the MHA under Sir Simon Wessely. … Read More ›
The (surprisingly) small body of reported cases relating to COVID-19 (representing the tip of a rather larger iceberg) has been added to in NG v Hertfordshire … Read More ›
The recent flurry of case comments on my website has, I think, caught me up with the most important recent cases from the CoP. I … Read More ›
The Court of Appeal has had little hesitation dismissing ([2020] EWCA Civ 1675) the appeal by Dahlia Griffith against her conviction and sentence of imprisonment for … Read More ›
AA (Court of Protection: Capacity To Consent To Sexual Practices) [2020] EWCOP 66 concerned AA, a 19 year old man, who had been diagnosed as … Read More ›
In AB (Court of Protection: Police Disclosure) [2019] EWCOP 66, a decision handed down in October 2019, but which for some reason did not appear on … Read More ›
Re CVF [2020] EWCOP 65 concerned the capacity and best interests of a 29 year old woman, CVF, with diagnoses of diabetes, learning disability, emotionally … Read More ›
In KK v Leeds City Council [2020] EWCOP 64, Cobb J had to consider whether P’s maternal aunt should be joined to welfare proceedings. The aunt, … Read More ›