The Ministry of Justice consulted in 2021-22 on a potential mechanism to enable families seeking access to small funds belonging to loved ones who lack … Read More ›
Month: February 2023
Advance Directives across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis (edited by Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 341 pages (hardback (£95) and free … Read More ›
After a very protracted journey, including amendments introduced even before it had been implemented, it was announced today (24 February) that Ireland’s Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) … Read More ›
The case of A Local Authority v H [2023] EWCOP 4 concerned a young adult, H, described by Hayden J as a “natal male who … Read More ›
After a stint since 2018 marked indelibly by the pandemic, as well as by the promulgation of no less than 60 published decisions (according to … Read More ›
In this ‘in conversation’ with, I learn from (retired) Professor Ken Wilson and Dr Julia Lewis about Alcohol Related Brain Damage and its often subtle … Read More ›
In this ‘in conversation’ with, I learn about the background to the new book co-edited by Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative … Read More ›
As part of ongoing work related to the Australian Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, the Living with Disability Research … Read More ›
The Vice-President of the Court of Protection, Hayden J, has issued guidance about closed hearings and closed materials. As it says in its opening paragraphs, … Read More ›
A revised version of the form used to address (and where the person lacks the capacity, to explain in detail why that is the case) … Read More ›