The case name – Re RK (Capacity; Contact; Inherent Jurisdiction) [2023] EWCOP 37 – helpfully captures what this difficult case was about. It concerned RK … Read More ›
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Barnet Enfield And Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust & Anor v Mr K & Ors [2023] EWCOP 35 concerned the health and welfare of a … Read More ›
In this shedinar, recorded in August 2023, I explain how the MCA applies when thinking about people’s money, property and affairs. The slides are here. The … Read More ›
The case of TW v Middlesbrough Council [2023] EWCOP 30 raises an important issue about diagnosis in the context of Learning Disability (the term being capitalised … Read More ›
Major v Kirishana [2023] EWHC 1593 (KB) is a distinctly troubling case, in that it involved – at one stage – a person being effectively … 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 ›
In Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust & Anor v RL & Ors [2023] EWCOP 22 (a decision handed down in February 2023, but only published … Read More ›
In this ‘in conversation with’, I talk to Dr Kevin Ariyo about the research that he led (as part of the as part of the … Read More ›
A toolkit has been published today (9 June 2023) by the Ministry of Justice as part of a commitment to increase public awareness of the … Read More ›