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Month: January 2020


Contingencies, capacity and Caesarean sections

Posted on 30 January 2020 Updated on 30 January 2020

In GSTT & SLAM v R  [2020] EWCOP 4, Hayden J has come back to the extremely thorny question of what… Read more

Posted in Birth arrangements, Capacity, Case comments, Inherent jurisdiction, Medical treatment     Tags: birth arrangements, capacity, inherent jurisdiction, medical treatment     Leave a comment     


Fluctuating capacity – another judicial take

Posted on 27 January 2020

In Cheshire West And Chester Council v PWK [2019] EWCOP 57, Sir Mark Hedley had to consider (in the context… Read more

Posted in Capacity, Case comments     Tags: capacity, Fluctuating capacity     Leave a comment     


Will, preferences and estrangement

Posted on 27 January 2020

In A Local Authority v PS & HS [2019] EWCOP 60, the court had to decide upon an 80 year-old… Read more

Posted in Best interests, Capacity, Case comments     Tags: Best interests, capacity, Contact     Leave a comment     


RPRs, attorneys, BIAs and legal aid

Posted on 27 January 2020

In The London Borough of Hillingdon v JV & Ors [2019] EWCOP 61, decided at the end of last year but… Read more

Posted in Case comments, Deprivation of liberty     Tags: deprivation of liberty, legal aid     Leave a comment     


Book review: Family Experience of Brain Injury: Surviving, Coping and Adjusting

Posted on 22 January 2020

Family Experience of Brain Injury: Surviving, Coping and Adjusting (Jo Clark-Wilson and Mark Holloway, Routledge, 2019, paperback, ebook, c£19.99) This… Read more

Posted in Book Reviews     Tags: Book review     Leave a comment     


Book review: Mental Health Homicide and Society: Understanding Health Care Governance

Posted on 22 January 2020 Updated on 22 January 2020

Book review: Mental Health Homicide and Society: Understanding Health Care Governance (David P Horton, Hart Publishing, 2019, hardback and ebook,… Read more

Posted in Book Reviews     Tags: Book review     Leave a comment     


Excellent conference on sex and relationships for your diary

Posted on 21 January 2020

Shropshire Council is hosting a one day conference in Shrewsbury on sex, relationships, mental capacity and human rights on 2… Read more

Posted in Conferences     Tags: Conferences, Sex     Leave a comment     


Serious Medical Treatment – Practice Guidance

Posted on 21 January 2020

The Vice-President of the Court of Protection, Hayden J has published guidance on serious medical treatment applications in the Court… Read more

Posted in Legislative developments     Tags: medical treatment, practice and procedure     Leave a comment     


Recent Posts

  • Advance decisions to refuse treatment – what (not) to do when it appears one may be in play

    11 June 2025
    Re AB (ADRT: Validity and Applicability) [2025] EWCOP 20 (T3) is a (rare) example of a court having to grapple... …Read More »
  • Compulsory mental health admission and treatment – the latest Strasbourg word

    10 June 2025
    Spivak v Ukraine [2025] ECHR 136 is a very helpful and important reminder of the increasing focus that Strasbourg is... …Read More »
  • Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill updated with amendments likely to pass at Report stage, and updated questions

    9 June 2025
    In advance of the second day of Report stage on 13 June, I have prepared an unofficial version of the... …Read More »
  • Advance choices across jurisdictions – mental health and physical health

    23 May 2025
    In the context of the imminent start of the Public Bill Committee stage of the Mental Health Bill in the... …Read More »
  • Law Commission Modernising Wills Law project reports

    16 May 2025
    After nearly 10 years, much longer than most projects (and caused in part by the then-government requesting a delay at... …Read More »

RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • Kieron Dominic Scully v Northamptonshire County Council 11 June 2025
  • AB (ADRT: Validity and Applicability), Re 10 June 2025
  • Bernadette Rogers v Andrew Wills 6 June 2025
  • Stephen Robert Leslie Cork & Anor v John Penfold & Anor 4 June 2025
  • Century Property (Leeds) Ltd v Dr Jason Aldiss & Anor 4 June 2025
  • N v N (Expert Evidence on Gender Affirming Treatment) 3 June 2025
  • FM v MK 2 June 2025
  • Aina Khan Law Ltd v The Legal Ombudsman 29 May 2025
  • Lioubov Macpherson v Sunderland City Council 22 May 2025
  • Sadia Afroz Chowdhury, R (on the application of) v The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) 20 May 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Surrey County Council v BC 11 June 2025
  • AB (ADRT: Validity and Applicability), Re 10 June 2025
  • Lioubov Macpherson v Sunderland City Council 22 May 2025
  • R v Azam 19 May 2025
  • The Duke of Sussex, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for The Home Department 2 May 2025
  • J v Bath and North East Somerset Council & Ors 29 April 2025
  • FW (a patient) v Cardiff & Vale University Health Board 21 April 2025
  • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, R (on the application of) v NHS North West London Integrated Care Board 16 April 2025
  • Shaun Morrow v HM Assistant Coroner for Merseyside (Sefton, Knowsley and St Helen's) 15 April 2025
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v MC 15 April 2025

RSS ECtHR Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities cases

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Case (Potentially preventable suicide). Re Pellumb Olaj (Islington Council) [2025] MHLO 13 (PFD)
  • Legal Aid book review. Charlotte Collier, 'Mapping the maze: Review of Legal Aid Handbook 2024/25' (Law Society Gazette, 26 May 2025)
  • Legal Aid book. Vicky Ling et al (eds), Legal Aid Handbook 2024/25 (LAG 2025)
  • MH Bill report. JCHR, 'Legislative Scrutiny: Mental Health Bill' (HC 601/HL Paper 126, 19 May 2025)
  • Case (Conditions and review of detention). Spivak v Ukraine 21180/15 [2025] ECHR 136
  • Research briefing on MH Bill. Katherine Garratt, Sonja Stiebahl and Joanna Dawson, 'Research briefing: Mental Health Bill (HL) 2024-25' (House of Commons Library, 14 May 2025)
  • Patient safety report. Health Services Safety Investigations Body, 'Mental health inpatient settings: Overarching report of investigations directed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care' (13 May 2025)
  • Case (Advance decision to refuse treatment). Re AB (ADRT: Validity and applicability) [2025] EWCOP 20 (T3)
  • Case (Treatment and detention). Rooman v Belgium 18052/11 [2019] ECHR 105
  • Case (Treatment and detention). Rooman v Belgium 18052/11 [2017] ECHR 688

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