In Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v Z [2016] EWCOP 50, Hayden J had to contemplate three options on behalf of a woman, … Read More ›
Tag: capacity
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 ›
In the most recent of its rolling series of updates to the Care Act Statutory Guidance, the Department of Health has finally updated Chapter 19 … Read More ›
Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland (Nicola Smith and Nairn R Young, ed Hilary Patrick, Bloomsbury Professional, 2016, paperback/ebook: c£44), and Vulnerable Adults and … 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 ›
In the London Borough of Southwark v KA & Ors [2016] EWHC 661 (Fam), Parker J had to grapple – again – with the question … Read More ›
The excellent VOICES project at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the NUI Galway is a really important project in the ‘operationalisation’ of the Convention … Read More ›
The judiciary have been going into overdrive. Since my last mini news update, not only will be reporting upon the vitally important case of Re … Read More ›
A cross-post to the Court of Protection Handbook site for those of you after clarity as to what the Court of Appeal decided today in … Read More ›
The Court of Appeal in Singapore in Re BKR [2015] SGCA 26 has handed down a decision that exemplifies the importance and utility of a … Read More ›