The Essex Autonomy Project examination of UK compliance with the CRPD with which I am involved is holding what promises to be… Read more
Month: February 2016
Transparency guidance on anonymisation updated
Following feedback that the procedure being adopted to ensure that parties were anonymised was perhaps a little too over-zealous, new… Read more
2 years and counting – the MCLAP website journey so far
I cannot quite believe that it is now 2 years since I set up this website, and I thought that it might… Read more
Storytellers wanted for VOICES project
The excellent VOICES project at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the NUI Galway is a really important project in… Read more
Increasing Understanding and Uptake of Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment in Wales – report published
A report has just been published by the Public Policy Institute for Wales for the Welsh Minister for Health and… Read more
The wait is over – the February Mental Capacity Newsletters are now out
The February 2016 Newsletters are now available. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter:… Read more
Transparency Order Explained
My admirable Chambers colleague Tor Butler-Cole has prepared an unofficial annotated version of the Transparency Pilot order to assist explaining… Read more
One stage closer – the NI Bill (mostly) survives Committee scrutiny
At its meeting on 25 January 2016, the Ad Hoc Joint Committee to Consider the Mental Capacity Bill agreed to… Read more