In a recent report, entitled A Hidden Crisis, Age UK has highlighted the extent of the problems with DoLS, setting out the results of qualitative … Read More ›
Category: Deprivation of liberty
Not enough judgments of District Judges are published. This is in part because very many decisions that they make are set out in oral judgments, … Read More ›
In Re RM Application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2024] UKSC 7, the provisions of the Mental Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1986 came under scrutiny, shedding light at … Read More ›
In Stockport MBC v KB [2023] EWCOP 58, HHJ Burrows addressed two questions in relating to ‘community DoL’ applications that have bubbled away for some … Read More ›
Lancashire County Council v X [2023] EWHC 2667 (Fam) was rightly described by the judge as extremely disturbing, involving the most intense level of restrictions … Read More ›
A Health and Social Care Trust v JU [2023] NIFam 12 provides an interesting take on the extent of positive obligations under Article 2 ECHR … Read More ›
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust v HJ [2023] EWFC 92 concerned the question of whether specific authorisation is required to administer physical health treatment … Read More ›
It is exceptionally unusual for a judge, let alone a very senior judge, actively to invite a claim to be brought against the State for … Read More ›
Is depriving a person of their mobile phone depriving them of their liberty? That was the very 21st century question confronting MacDonald J in Manchester … Read More ›
In DY v A City Council & Anor [2022] EWCOP 51, Judd J has tackled head on the perennially difficult question of whether and how … Read More ›