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…
Monthly archives for May, 2015
Precedent orders – now updated
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 […]
May Newsletters now out!
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 […]
The Court of Protection comes of age
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.