The Government has today (21 March 2024) published its response to the report of the Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health Bill, published in … Read More ›
Tag: Mental Health Act 1983
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 Devon Partnership NHS Trust v SSHC [2021] EWHC 101 (Admin), handed down on 22 January 2021, the Divisional Court held that “the phrases “personally seen” in … 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 ›
Theis J has waded into the thickets of Schedule 1A. In Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v JS & Others (Schedule 1A Mental Capacity … Read More ›
In a perhaps slightly curious development in 2020, the DHSC decided that its own statutory guidance (accompanying the Care Act) was wrong in relation to … Read More ›
The Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Treatment) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, laid before Parliament on 1 October 2020, and coming into force on 1 December … Read More ›
NHSE-I published on 19 May updated guidance on the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the use of the Mental Health Act (MHA) and … Read More ›
The minutes of the Tribunal Procedure Committee in July have just been published and show that controversial proposed rule changes have been abandoned. Relevant extract … 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 ›