The second of the ESRC funded ‘Safeguarding Adults and Legal Literacy’ (‘SALLY’) seminars with which I am involved investigating the impact of the Care Act 2014 will be on Friday 20 May at Bournemouth University. This seminar, entitled, ‘”New” Categories of Abuse & Neglect,’ considers the construction and conceptualisation of categories of abuse, including the […]
Monthly archives for April, 2016
Law at the end of life: conference 7 ...
Alongside (but very much in second place to!) Sir Mark Hedley, I will be speaking at the Second Annual Medio-Legal Conference hosted by the University of Worcester in association with the Worcestershire Medico-Legal Society. This day long conference entitled “Law at the end of life” will include presentations and workshops considering the complex legal issues which may […]
Litigation friend or foe?
In NHS Trusts v C [2016] EWCOP 17, C was detained under s.2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 with bipolar affective disorder. She was in the late stages of pregnancy and suffering from a severe manic episode. This caused her to be unable to weigh the pros and cons of medical interventions that may […]
April Mental Capacity Law Newsletter ...
April’s offerings are now available here. Highlights include: 1. In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: Charles J and the DOL impasse, sex and marriage, grappling with anorexia, and wishes and feelings in different contexts; 2. In the Property and Affairs Newsletter: revoking and suspending LPAs, Law Society guidance on fiduciary duties and […]
Sex and the simple test?
In the London Borough of Southwark v KA & Ors [2016] EWHC 661 (Fam), Parker J had to grapple – again – with the question of whether a young person had capacity to consent to sexual relations and to marry. For present purposes, I am not so interested in the facts of the case – […]
