The May 2025 Mental Capacity Report. It is our 150th issue, and, to mark this, Tor Butler-Cole KC and have… Read more
Author: Alex RK
Alex is a barrister, writer and educator, and creator of the website www.mclap.org.uk
Litigation capacity – and what happens if you never had it?
Johnston v Financial Ombudsman Service [2025] EWCA Civ 551 is a case with a particularly complicated procedural history, but for present… Read more
Book Review: Rob George: Wards of Court and the Inherent Jurisdiction
Book Review: Rob George, Wards of Court and the Inherent Jurisdiction (Hart, 2024, 293 pp, hardback, £90, ebook £free) I have spent… Read more
Reflections on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill podcast (x2)
With thanks to Rosalind English of the 1 Crown Office Row Law Pod UK podcast for having me on, two… Read more
Cross-border capacity cases within the UK: a new judicial protocol and handbook
A new protocol regulating communications between judges in Scotland, England & Wales, and Northern Ireland has been agreed for cases… Read more
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill developments / resources
On 2 May, the impact assessment, equality impact assessment and human rights memorandum promised by the Government to assist Parliament… Read more
The Court of Appeal explains why local authorities cannot consent to the confinement of children in their care
The Court of Appeal announced on the day of the hearing of the appeal against the decision of Lieven J… Read more
Serious medical treatment cases and naming clinicians – the Supreme Court decides
In the conjoined appeals of Abbasi and Haastrup [2025] UKSC 15, the Supreme Court has grappled with the questions of (1) the jurisdiction of… Read more
Book review: Dictionary of the Court of Protection
Book Review: HHJ Carolyn Hilder, DJ Lisa Clarke, DJ Mark Mullins, Gemma Daly, Simon Heapy, Lee Parkhill and Kriti Upadhyay, Dictionary… Read more
39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report April 2025
The April 2025 Mental Capacity Report is now out. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation… Read more