In Staffordshire County Council v SRK & Ors [2016] EWCOP 27, Charles J has grappled with the thorny question of… Read more
Author: Alex RK
Alex is a barrister, writer and educator, and creator of the website www.mclap.org.uk
The Use of Physical Intervention and Restraint: Helpful or Harmful? Seminar 13 June
My admirable colleague Tor Butler-Cole is co-organising with Leigh Day solicitors and speaking at this seminar on 13 June on… Read more
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act
Patricia Rickard-Clarke has kindly given me permission to reproduce here the article that she wrote for the May edition of… Read more
May Mental Capacity Law Newsletters now out
Unusually this month – but proving that we do not simply generate material for the sake of it – we… Read more
Book Reviews: vulnerability in principle, law and practice
Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland (Nicola Smith and Nairn R Young, ed Hilary Patrick, Bloomsbury Professional, 2016, paperback/ebook:… Read more
“New” Categories of Abuse: Seminar 20 May
The second of the ESRC funded ‘Safeguarding Adults and Legal Literacy’ (‘SALLY’) seminars with which I am involved investigating the… Read more
Law at the end of life: conference 7 July 2016
Alongside (but very much in second place to!) Sir Mark Hedley, I will be speaking at the Second Annual Medio-Legal… Read more
Litigation friend or foe?
In NHS Trusts v C [2016] EWCOP 17, C was detained under s.2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 with… Read more
April Mental Capacity Law Newsletter now out
April’s offerings are now available here. Highlights include: 1. In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: Charles J… Read more
Sex and the simple test?
In the London Borough of Southwark v KA & Ors [2016] EWHC 661 (Fam), Parker J had to grapple –… Read more