A reminder that there are only a couple of weeks to go until the 3rd annual MHLA COP conference in… Read more
Month: May 2016
Law Commission Interim Statement on MCA/DOLS now published
The Law Commission has just published an interim report upon its Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty project, to which… Read more
Private deprivations of liberty, deputies, and the state
In Staffordshire County Council v SRK & Ors [2016] EWCOP 27, Charles J has grappled with the thorny question of… Read more
The Use of Physical Intervention and Restraint: Helpful or Harmful? Seminar 13 June
My admirable colleague Tor Butler-Cole is co-organising with Leigh Day solicitors and speaking at this seminar on 13 June on… Read more
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act
Patricia Rickard-Clarke has kindly given me permission to reproduce here the article that she wrote for the May edition of… Read more
May Mental Capacity Law Newsletters now out
Unusually this month – but proving that we do not simply generate material for the sake of it – we… Read more
Book Reviews: vulnerability in principle, law and practice
Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland (Nicola Smith and Nairn R Young, ed Hilary Patrick, Bloomsbury Professional, 2016, paperback/ebook:… Read more