The second issue is now out, edited by Daniel Wang, Ruth Fletcher, Catherine Penny, Richard Ashcroft and I. The articles include: Disability, Deprivation of Liberty and Human Rights Norms: Reconciling European and International Approaches (Eilionóir Flynn) DoLS or Quality Care? (Gordon Ashton OBE) Capacity Assessment and Information Provision for Voluntary Psychiatric Patients: a service evaluation in a UK […]
Monthly archives for February, 2017
New research report: The Participatio...
A huge – and hugely impressive – report on the participation of P has just been published by Cardiff University’s team (Lucy Series, Phil Fennell and Julie Doughty) looking into welfare cases at the Court of Protection. The report, available here, makes uncomfortable reading as regards the approach of a system which has as its […]
FICM/ICS Guidance on MCA and DoLS in ...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine/Intensive Care Society have prepared summary guidance on MCA and DoLS in light of the Ferreira judgment. A fuller discussion of the judgment and its implications will be forthcoming in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society, but in the interim this guidance outlines the key messages of the judgment […]
February Mental Capacity Report from ...
The February 2017 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report is now out. You will note a new look, and also a new title, which reflects the fact that over the years we have evolved to carry material that goes considerably wider and deeper than in a conventional Newsletter. We have also retitled the individual sections of […]
