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 ›
Month: May 2016
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Unusually this month – but proving that we do not simply generate material for the sake of it – we do not have any Health, … Read More ›
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 ›