[The 3rd LPS implementation newsletter was published on 30 November. I reproduce the material parts of the text below; to subscribe, please email. lps.cop@dhsc.gov.uk]. Dear … Read More ›
Month: November 2020
The November 2020 Mental Capacity Report is now out. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: updated DHSC … Read More ›
In Local Authority v GP (Capacity – Care, Support and Education) [2020] EWCOP 56 HHJ Dodd helpfully turned the eye of Sauron onto three areas … Read More ›
In The Health Service Executive of Ireland v IM & Anor [2020] EWCOP 51, Knowles J has given a helpful summary of the approach to … Read More ›
The decision in AMDC v AG & Anor [2020] EWCOP 58 serves as an important reminder of how demanding the process of assessing and reporting … Read More ›
This “in conversation with” is, in part, shameless self-promotion, to mark the publication of the second edition of Law and Ethics in Intensive Care (Oxford … Read More ›
The latest iteration of the guidance (11 November) now updates the main and additional guidance to take account of the new (English) lockdown regulations as … Read More ›
In An NHS Trust v AF & Anor [2020] EWCOP 55, Poole J has answered an important question that has – oddly – not been … Read More ›
In the minutes of the LPS Steering Group meeting held on 13 October 2020, published as part of the new LPS documentation page, it was … Read More ›
In this “in conversation with” the psychiatrist and bioethicist Dr Scott Kim, Scott gives a ‘critical friend’ perspective from the US upon the MCA, and … Read More ›