With a neat (if unplanned) symmetry, work that have been dominating my life has come to different forms of head… Read more
Month: December 2018
39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report end of term email
The editorial team’s commitments have been such recently that there is no report for December, but instead an end of… Read more
No more confining by ‘necessary implication’ – the Supreme Court returns CTOs to their original purpose
In Welsh Ministers v PJ [2018] UKSC 66, the Supreme Court has reversed the curious and controversial decision in PJ,… Read more
The thinnest of legal ice – restricting contact and the MCA
SR v A Local Authority [2018] EWCOP 36 concerned a couple, who had had been married for 58 years, and were… Read more
Attorneys, neglect and the shortcomings of s.44 MCA
In Kurtz v R [2018] EWCA Crim 2743, the Court of Appeal had to grapple again with the problematic wording of… Read more
When not telling is in a person’s best interests
In the personal injury case of EXB v FDZ & Ors [2018] EHWC 3456 (QB), Foskett J had to grapple… Read more
Cross-border protection and the CRPD
I spent three days last week at a meeting on the cross-border protection of vulnerable adults convened by the European… Read more
Conference: Human Rights and Mental Health, April 1-5, Bochum, Germany
The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at Ruhr University, Bochum are holding an International Spring School on… Read more
Guidance on CANH decision-making published by BMA and RCP
The British Medical Association and Royal College of Physicians have published today (12 December) guidance (endorsed, unusually but importantly, by… Read more
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill finishes Lords stages
The Bill today (11 December) finished its final stage in the Lords, with the Commons yet to come. With thanks… Read more