Wiltshire County Council v RB & Ors [2023] EWCOP 26 concerned a 29 year old woman diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Since 2015 she had been … Read More ›
Month: June 2023
Warrington Borough Council v Y & Ors [2023] EWCOP 27. This application concerned Y, who was in her early twenties. Y had been diagnosed with … Read More ›
The Scottish Government has today (28 June 2023) published its response to the independent review of mental health, capacity and adult support and protection legislation, … Read More ›
Making Decisions in Compulsory Mental Health Work (edited by Jill Hemmington and Sarah Vicary, Policy Press, 2023, 203 pages, c £24.99) To get the bad … Read More ›
[In an extremely helpful, but depressing, report published on 22 June 2023, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory analysed applications received during the first two months … Read More ›
Registration closes at 12 noon on 29 June for the Third UK and Ireland Mental Diversity Law Conference – 6th & 7th July 2023, to … Read More ›
[The Joint Committee on Human Rights wrote on 28 May 2023 to the Minister of State for Social Care to express its view that the … Read More ›
Visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices – consultation on proposed new legislation in England
The Department of Health and Social Care is consulting (with a closing date of 16 August 2023), seeking “views on introducing secondary legislation to protect … Read More ›
In the most recent DOLS Newsletter published on 20 June 2023, the DoLS and Mental Capacity team at the DHSC have given the following update: … Read More ›
In Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust & Anor v RL & Ors [2023] EWCOP 22 (a decision handed down in February 2023, but only published … Read More ›