The changes to ss.135 and 136 MHA introduced by the Crime and Policing Act 2017 are coming into force on 11 December. The effect of … Read More ›
Month: October 2017
The Court of Protection Rules 2017 have been laid before Parliament, to come into force on 1 December. These recast all of the Rules into … Read More ›
The Court of Appeal ([2017] EWCA Civ 1695) has allowed the appeal by Birmingham City Council (‘Birmingham’) against the judgment of Keehan J ([2016] EWCOP … Read More ›
Jackie Doyle-Price (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health), in a written statement today (30 October) set out the Government’s Interim Response to the Law Commission’s … Read More ›
The next seminar in the ESRC-funded series “Safeguarding Adults and Legal Literacy” will take place in Chester on 24 November. Entitled ‘Intersections with mental capacity … Read More ›
The October 2017 Mental Capacity Reports are now out. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: serious medical … Read More ›
In LB Wandsworth v M & Ors [2017] EWHC 2435 (Fam), Hayden J was faced with a significant problem in relation to a child about … Read More ›
The decision in R (Conway) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWHC 2447 (Admin) is now available here.
The MCA 2005 came fully into force 10 years ago today, on 1 October 2007. Entirely understandably given the day of the week its birthday fell, … Read More ›