Alex RKThe May 2024 Mental Capacity Report is now out. Highlights this month include:
(1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: a rare successful capacity appeal, evicting someone from P’s house and holistically approaching hoarding;
(2) In the Practice and Procedure Report: when you can remove deputies, and publishing judgments in serious medical treatment and closed material procedure cases;
(3) In the Mental Health Matters Report: when not to rely on capacity in the mental health context;
(4) In the Wider Context Report: capacity, autonomy and the limits of the obligation to secure life, and the European Court of Human Right raises the stakes for psychiatric admission for those with learning disabilities;
(5) In the Scotland Report: licence conditions and deprivation of liberty, and Executor qua attorney – a few steps back?
For the print-friendly compendium see here, and for the screen-friendly compendium, see here.
In the absence of relevant major developments, and on the basis people have enough to do without reading reports for the sake of reports, we do not have a property and affairs report this month. But some might find this blog prompted by a question in the property and affairs context of whether you need to have capacity to consent to having your capacity assessed.
My walkthrough is here:
You can find our past issues, our case summaries, and more on our dedicated sub-site here, where you can also sign up to the Mental Capacity Report.
