The 4th World Congress on Adult Guardianship will be held under the auspices of the German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, Heiko Maas, in Erkner near Berlin between September 14 and September 17, 2016. It is hosted by the German Adult Guardianship Law Association (Betreuungsgerichtstag e.V.) in collaboration with the International Guardianship Network (‘IGN’). The organizing committee consists […]
Monthly archives for December, 2015
So that was 2015 – a mini-revie...
I think that it can properly be said that 2015 was the year that the MCA, if it did not reach adulthood, then at least started to move out of its prolonged and difficult childhood. We now have judges who are ready really to grapple both with questions of capacity and best interests; we have […]
‘Safeguarding Adults and Legal Litera...
I am very pleased to announce an ESRC funded project with which I am involved – the Safeguarding Adults and Legal Literacy (or ‘SALLY’) series investigating the impact of the Care Act. The theme for the seminars in the first year of this three years series is ‘Making Law’. We aim to theorise the process […]
December Newsletters now not only out...
Apologies – a technical glitch earlier meant readers could not access the newsletters; this has now been resolved. I am now re-posting so that those who received an update from my site earlier are now able rapidly to access the newsletters. The December Mental Capacity Law Newsletters are now out. Highlights this month in a […]
Book reviews: Care Act Manual (2nd ed...
I have finally managed to find the time to review two books that have been provided to me: Care Act Manual: 2nd edition: Tim Spencer-Lane (Sweet & Maxwell, 2015, paperback, £72) In between trying to sort out the law relating to deprivation of liberty, Tim Spencer-Lane has done us all an enormous favour by updating […]
St George’s and the powers of the cou...
Newton J has very recently authorised the publication of the order he made in St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust v P & Q [2015] EWCOP 42 (discussed here). The order makes clear what we had suspected must have been the case (but was made inadvertently ambiguous in the judgment), namely that he did not order […]
Next month’s newsletter is gett...
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 N and its re-affirmation of the centrality of P in decision-making, we will also have: Re AG [2015] EWCOP 78 on case management, when to have a fact-finding hearing (and […]
