In the course of recent work (including in the context of the revision to the MCA Code of Practice) an interesting, important, and under-acknowledged phenomenon … Read More ›
Month: August 2020
An article I have co-written reflecting on the first wave of the pandemic from the perspective of a Covid-19 ethics working group at a large … Read More ›
The shedinar series is taking a break for a few weeks, but this last one should provide plenty of food for thought until it comes … Read More ›
The fourth annual report by the Chair of the NMCF, Baroness Ilora Finlay, was published on 12 August. Had I not run out of time … Read More ›
In King v The Wright Roofing Company Ltd [2020] EWHC 2129 (QB), a personal injury case, Kerr J had to decide whether the claimant had capacity … Read More ›
In this ‘in conversation’ with Dr Tania Gergel, we think about what philosophy can bring to thinking about mental capacity, have a chewy discussion about … Read More ›
In the latest ‘in conversation with,’ Dr Lade Smith CBE and I discuss the ways in which capacity assessments under the MCA do and do … Read More ›
The slides and the recording of my shedinar about this from Friday 31 July 2020 are now available here, looking at (amongst other things in … Read More ›
The quarterly update on the COPH website to the third edition of the Handbook is now out, bringing the book up-to-date to 1 August 2020. … Read More ›