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Monthly archives for May, 2015

Your MCA rights on (almost) one page

May 18, 2015 Written by Alex RK

With thanks to Niall Fry of DH, you will find here the PDF of the MCA rights cards that DH has produced which can be ordered in handy credit-card size to deploy.   I am particularly pleased to see the emphasis upon supporting decision-making…  

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Precedent orders – now updated

May 18, 2015 Written by Alex RK

As some will have already discovered, the COP Handbook website includes a suite of (free) precedent orders.   We have recently updated a number of the precedent orders for welfare proceedings in light of case-law such as Re MN, and also taken the opportunity to add a new single ‘short order’ for authority to convey a person (for […]

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May Newsletters now out!

May 15, 2015 Written by Alex RK

The May 39 Essex Chambers Newsletters are now out.   Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: a difficult decision on DOLS and Guardianship and best interests in the real world. In the Property and Affairs Newsletter: when (and what) deputies can pay themselves for care and clarification as to when […]

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The Court of Protection comes of age

May 7, 2015 Written by Alex RK

A cross-post to the summary and comment on the extremely important Court of Appeal decision in Re MN handed down earlier today as to the dividing line between the COP and the Admin Court, decisions vs declarations and the conduct of welfare proceedings.

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Recent Posts

  • Vulnerable adults – another opportunity for change?

    April 15, 2018
    As many will know, I spent a considerable part of 2017 seeking to persuade the Law Commission to take forward …Read More »
  • CRPD corrections and updates

    April 4, 2018
    In an unusual step, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has published a correction to General Comment …Read More »
  • 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report April 2018

    April 3, 2018
    The April 2018 Report is now available. Highlights include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the …Read More »
  • Law Society Mental Health and Disability Committee vacancies

    March 29, 2018
    The (English) Law Society MHDC is recruiting to fill 3 vacancies, with a deadline of Friday 13 April.  Despite the inauspicious …Read More »
  • The Skripals before the Court of Protection – more detailed analysis

    March 27, 2018
    The Court of Protection was thrust into the centre of a major international incident in SSHD v Sergei Skripal; SSHD v …Read More »

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RSS Bailii capacity cases

  • PA053292017 [2018] UKAITUR PA053292017 (5 April 2018) April 24, 2018
  • Flanagan -v- The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform [2018] IEHC 208 (23 March 2018) April 24, 2018
  • Matthews v Matthews & Anor [2018] EWHC 906 (Fam) (11 April 2018) April 23, 2018
  • NHS Windsor And Maidenhead Clinical Commissioning Group v SP (Withdrawal of CANH) [2018] EWCOP 11 (20 April 2018) April 20, 2018
  • Nutt & Anor v Nutt [2018] EWHC 851 (Ch) (19 April 2018) April 20, 2018
  • M v ABM University Health Board (Mental health) [2018] UKUT 120 (AAC) (27 March 2018) April 20, 2018
  • NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group v LB & SHC [2018] EWCOP 7 (28 March 2018) April 13, 2018
  • AR, Re [2018] EWCOP 8 (28 March 2018) April 6, 2018
  • CORREIA DE MATOS v. PORTUGAL - 56402/12 (Judgment : No Article 6+6-3-c - Right to a fair trial : Grand Chamber) [2018] ECHR 299 (04 April 2018) April 6, 2018
  • St Clair v King & Anor [2018] EWHC 682 (Ch) (28 March 2018) March 30, 2018

RSS MHLO updates

  • Parole Board delay case. LV v UK 50718/16 [2018] MHLO 22
  • Newsletter. Mind, 'Legal Newsletter' (March 2018)
  • Covert medication case. M v Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board [2018] UKUT 120 (AAC)
  • Medical treatment case. NHS Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead CCG v SP (Withdrawal of CANH) [2018] EWCOP 11
  • Law Society panel concerns cont'd. Law Society mental health accreditation scheme - guidance documents
  • Job advert. Bishop & Light Solicitors, Hove - Court of Protection Solicitor (listed until 13 July 2018).
  • Book chapter uploaded.
  • Sentence appeal case. R v Thompson [2018] EWCA Crim 639
  • Panel JR announcement. GT Stewart Solicitors and Advocates, 'GT Stewart file claim for judicial review in the High Court challenging decision of the Law Society' (6/4/18)
  • Law Society panel concerns cont'd.

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