May 2016 – Mental Capacity Law and Policy

Mental Health Lawyers Association COP conference – nearly upon us

A reminder that there are only a couple of weeks to go until the 3rd annual MHLA COP conference in Manchester on 24 June. … Read More ›

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 I am on secondment. The … Read More ›

Case comments, Deprivation of liberty

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 when the state’s positive obligations … 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 use of physical intervention and … Read More ›

Legislative developments

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 the 39 Essex Chambers Newsletter … 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: c£44), and Vulnerable Adults and … Read More ›

Determining capacity with one (judicial) hand tied behind your back
August 10, 2020
In King v The Wright Roofing Company Ltd [2020] EWHC 2129 (QB), a personal injury case, Kerr J had to decide …Read More »
Shedinar – in conversation with Dr Tania Gergel: philosophy, capacity, presumptions and personhood
August 7, 2020
In this ‘in conversation’ with Dr Tania Gergel, we think about what philosophy can bring to thinking about mental capacity, …Read More »
Race, culture and capacity – in conversation with Dr Lade Smith CBE
August 4, 2020
In the latest ‘in conversation with,’ Dr Lade Smith CBE and I discuss the ways in which capacity assessments under …Read More »
So the LPS are delayed until April 2022 – what should I do now?
August 3, 2020
The slides and the recording of my shedinar about this from Friday 31 July 2020 are now available here, looking …Read More »
Court of Protection Handbook – August 2020 Quarterly Update
August 1, 2020
The quarterly update on the COPH website to the third edition of the Handbook is now out, bringing the book …Read More »

Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 106, July 2020)
— "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: LPS delayed to April 2022; alcohol dependence and other capacity conundrums; stem cell donation and altruism, and when to come to court in medical treatment cases; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: updated OPG guidance on making LPAs under […]
Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 105, June 2020)
— "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the Court of Appeal presses the reset button in relation to capacity and sexual relations, and three difficult medical treatment decisions; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: the impact of grief on testamentary capacity; (3) In the Practice and […]
Suicide and homicide report. NCISH, 'Annual Report: England, NI, Scotland and Wales' (13/12/19)
— "The 2019 annual report from the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH) provides findings relating to people who died by suicide in 2007-2017 across all UK countries. Additional findings are presented on the number of people convicted of homicide, and those under mental health care."
Case (Article 2 inquests and community patients). Re Lee [2019] MHLO 73 (Coroner)
— The coroner, following the Administrative Court decision that she had failed properly to address the Article 2 operational duty as set out in the Rabone case, in this decision sets out reasons for concluding that (a) the operational duty was not neither engaged nor breached.
Case (Article 2 inquests and community patients). R (Lee) v HM Assistant Coroner for Sunderland [2019] EWHC 3227 (Admin)
— The coroner had decided that Article 2 was not engaged in this case, which involved the death of a community patient who was not subject to the MHA. (1) In relation to the operational duty, the coroner's decision had focussed almost exclusively on the question of responsibility rather than the "threefold factors of assumed […]

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