Mental disability law (including both mental health law and mental capacity law) in the UK has come into its own in recent years, and there is now a wide range of researchers active in the field, in a variety of disciplines. This conference is intended to bring these people together for the first meeting of […]
Monthly archives for March, 2016
CoPPA London seminar 20 April
I am speaking at the Court of Protection Practitioners Association London Sub-Group event on 20 April on News from the Rule Committee. Also speaking, on the transparency pilot, is Brian Farmer from the Press Association. The meeting, which runs from 5 to 7 pm at 39 Essex Chambers, is free for CoPPA members, and £10 for […]
“Refreshed” Care Act guid...
The “refreshed” (ie corrected and updated) statutory guidance has now been published. It takes account of regulatory changes, feedback from stakeholders and the care sector and developments following the postponement of social care funding reforms to 2020. This table indicates where changes have been made and provides more detail on the more significant changes.
What to do, what to do – the pr...
A cross-post here to my fellow author Sophy Miles’ excellent post on the Court of Protection Handbook site on the two judgments handed down today by Charles J in the latest round of the Re X fall-out. Re JM makes incredibly stark the difficulty of securing rights in an age of austerity; Re VE gives […]
March Mental Capacity Law Newsletters...
Welcome to the March 2016 Newsletters. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: what we don’t know about the MCA and further observations on ‘using and weighing’; In the Property and Affairs Newsletter: calibrating testamentary capacity to the nature of the estate and updates from the Office of the […]
Powers of attorney, care homes, best ...
I have been asked by a good BIA (you know who you are!) to write something about powers of attorney, care homes and best interests. Because I am nice like that, here are some thoughts, but with the usual caveat that none of this represents legal advice. A confusion that regularly arises in the context […]
Court of Protection Handbook second e...
In between our various day jobs, my co-authors and I are setting the wheels in motion to produce a second edition of the Court of Protection Handbook by the end of the year. We think we know what we need to cover – not least all the exciting developments such as the Case Management Pilot – […]
Transparency Guidance further updated
Here is the link to a further iteration of the transparency guidance accompanying the pilot, dealing with anonymisation of local authorities and other matters. This was issued for dissemination on Monday 29 February. If further issues such as these are identified, the guidance accompanying the pilot will no doubt be subject to further amendment in […]
Case Management Pilot Draft published
The long-awaited case management pilot has now been published in draft form for comment and consideration before it goes live in June of this year. There will be more analysis of it and of its implications in next month’s Mental Capacity Law Newsletter, but and very brief terms of pilot envisages very clear pathways for […]
