The Explanatory Notes to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act have now been published. They do not go substantively beyond what is set out in the … Read More ›
Month: May 2019
In A Clinical Commissioning Group v P (Withdrawal of CANH) [2019] EWCOP 18, MacDonald J gave a detailed judgment to explain why he endorsed an … Read More ›
The full text of the MC(A)A 2019 has now been published, to the relief of all those who were being driven to despair by trying … Read More ›
In a powerful and wide-ranging report published by the Children’s Commissioner on 16 May entitled “Who are they? Where are they?” the basis is examined … Read More ›
The May 2019 Mental Capacity Report will shortly be landing in inboxes for those already on the mailing list. Highlights this month include: (1) In … Read More ›
Royal Assent was given today (16 May) to what is now the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019, although no details have yet been given as … Read More ›
The judgment in Re NB [2019] EWCOP 17 has just appeared on Bailli of a hearing on 7 May 2019 at which Hayden J considered … Read More ›
The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (in the Faculty of Law) and The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (in the School of Clinical Medicine) … Read More ›
University Hospitals of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation Trust v J (Medical Treatment: Best Interests) [2019] EWCOP 16 concerned whether it was in the best interests … Read More ›
PBM v TGT & X Local Authority [2019] EWCOP 6 addresses the questions of capacity to marry, enter into a prenuptial agreement and also disclosure … Read More ›