39 Essex Chambers June Mental Capacity Report

The June issue will shortly be winging its way to subscribers (remember, it’s free!).

Highlights this month include:

(1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the Court of Appeal presses the reset button in relation to capacity and sexual relations, and three difficult medical treatment decisions;

(2) In the Property and Affairs Report: the impact of grief on testamentary capacity;

(3) In the Practice and Procedure Report: a remote hearings update, and a pragmatic solution to questions of litigation capacity arising during the course of a case;

(4) In the Wider Context Report: DoLS and the obligations of the state under Article 2 ECHR, the Parole Board and impaired capacity, and recent relevant case-law from the European Court of Human Rights;

(5) In the Scotland Report: the interim report of the Scott Review critiqued.

The compendium issue can be found here, and the screen-friendly version here.

You can find our past issues, our case summaries, and more on our dedicated sub-site here.  We have taken a deliberate decision not to cover all the host of COVID-19 related matters that might have a tangential impact upon mental capacity in the Report, not least because the picture continues to change relatively rapidly. Chambers has created a dedicated COVID-19 page with resources, seminars, and more, here; Alex maintains a resources page for MCA and COVID-19 here.

If you want more information on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which we frequently refer to in this Report, we suggest you go to the Small Places website run by Lucy Series of Cardiff University.

 

 

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