Cretney and Lush on Lasting and Enduring Powers of Attorney (7th Edition): Senior Judge Denzil Lush (Jordans, 2014, £67.50) This work is now in its seventh edition. It is rightly regarded as the bible in this area, so this review therefore will be relatively short. Suffice it to say that, written by Senior Judge Denzil Lush, it […]
Monthly archives for May, 2014
Looking sidewise in the COP
RB v Brighton and Hove Council [2014] EWCA Civ 561 Summary In June 2007 RB sustained a serious brain injury in an accident. He was treated for eight months in hospital and then transferred to a care home, S House. In 2011 RB ceased participating in rehabilitation programmes and proposed to leave S House. The […]
Book Review: Dementia and the Law
Dementia and the Law: Tony Harrop-Griffiths, Jonathan Cowen, Christine Cooper, Rhys Hadden, Angela Hodes, Victoria Flowers, Steven Fuller (Jordans, 2014, £55) This new work deals with many of the very specific problems faced by those caring for, treating, or seeking to advise and assist those with dementia. In some ways, it is quite a similar […]
Two conferences
With apologies for the lack of case comment updates recently (finishing two books back to back is all-consuming !), I wanted to highlight in the interim two significant conferences that merit your attention: 1. The Mental Health Lawyers Association’s first Court of Protection conference on 6 June. 2. The conference on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards […]
The Press and the COP
Re G [2014] EWHC 1361 (COP) Summary In our report upon this case in the May Newsletter, we noted that we were awaiting with great interest the judgment of the President in the hearing we knew had occurred. That judgment was sent to us just as the Newsletter went to press. The underlying facts relate […]
May Newsletters
Our Mental Capacity Law Newsletters for May are now out, and can all be found here, including for the first time a screen-friendly version of the
Advance decisions and the MHA 1983
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust v RC [2014] EWHC 1317 (COP) Summary This is the sequel to the case of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust v J [2014] EWHC 1136 (COP) that we reported in our May newsletter. It was received just too late to include in that newsletter. The case concerned RC (known as J in the […]
