As Lieven J noted in her opening paragraph, A Council v An NHS Foundation Trust & Ors [2024] EWHC 874… Read more
Author: Alex RK
Alex is a barrister, writer and educator, and creator of the website www.mclap.org.uk
Residence, care, sex and marriage: an (unusual) successful appeal on capacity
Re ZZ (Capacity) [2024] EWCOP 21 is an example of a relatively species of case, namely a successful appeal in… Read more
Children, capacity and accepting the diagnosis
Y NHS Foundation Trust v AN & Anor [2024] EWHC 805 (Fam) concerned a 16 year old girl, AN, who had… Read more
Fees increase in the Court of Protection
With effect from 1 May 2024, the fee for making an application in the Court of Protection will rise from… Read more
Capacity, autonomy and the limits of the obligation to secure life
R (Parkin) v His Majesty’s Assistant Coroner for Inner London (East) [2024] EWHC 744 (Admin) is an important, but curious,… Read more
Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill – an annotated version with notes and questions
From the perspective of an informed, and very interested, English outsider, I have produced an annotated version of the Member’s… Read more
NMCF Webinar: managing without the Liberty Protection Safeguards
Registration is open for the next NMCF Webinar, which takes places this Thursday, 11 April, noon-1pm. The focus will be… Read more
39 Essex Chambers April 2024 Mental Capacity Report and walkthrough
The April 2024 Mental Capacity Report is now out. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation… Read more
Amended Court of Protection Practice Directions from 1 April 2024
Amendments to three Practice Directions supplementing the Court of Protection Rules 2017 have been made. In summary the changes are:… Read more
Facilitating mental health advance choice documents: in conversation with Jonathan Simpson
In this ‘in conversation with’ I talk to Jonathan Simpson about a project researching how to turn advance choice documents… Read more