A cross-post to the post on the Court of Protection Handbook by Sophy Miles, Neil Allen and I on the decision handed down this morning … Read More ›
Tag: Best interests
The Medical Protection Society in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council and NHS England has just launched a new Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty … Read More ›
I reproduce here an updated version of the case summary and comment on the case of Briggs v Briggs [2016] EWCOP 53 that appeared in the December 2016 … Read More ›
The substantive decision in the case of Briggs has just been handed down. We will have full analysis and comment in our (increasingly full) 39 Essex … Read More ›
In an open access article published today (16 December) in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Lynne Turner-Stokes makes a further important contribution to the debate … Read More ›
In NHS Trusts v C [2016] EWCOP 17, C was detained under s.2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 with bipolar affective disorder. She was … Read More ›
I have been asked by a good BIA (you know who you are!) to write something about powers of attorney, care homes and best interests. … Read More ›
The GMC is consulting on a replacement to its current Confidentiality guidance, published in 2009. The guidance addresses, inter alia, the position in relation to those … Read More ›
Cases are coming out left, right and centre at the moment, and with other commitments, it is not possible to write about them in the … Read More ›
With thanks to Jordan’s Publishing for permission to reproduce this, my article on the place of wishes and feelings in best interest decision-making recently appeared in … Read More ›