A Clinician’s Brief Guide to Dementia and the Law (Nick Brindle, Michael Kennedy, Christian Walsh and Ben Alderson, Cambridge Medicine,… Read more
Author: Alex RK
Alex is a barrister, writer and educator, and creator of the website www.mclap.org.uk
Book Review: Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics (12th edition)
Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics 12th edition (Anne-Maree Farrell and Edward S. Dove, OUP, 2023, paperback, 702… Read more
Appeals from personal welfare decisions – the Court of Appeal allocates the costs
In Re VA (Medical Treatment) [2023] EWCA Civ 1190, the Court of Appeal considered an appeal by a litigant in… Read more
Book Review: The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law
The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law (edited by Kay Wilson, Yvette Maker, Piers Gooding and Jamie Walvisch,… Read more
Law Commission Wills project – supplementary consultation
The Law Commission has today (5 October 2023) published Making a Will: A Supplementary Consultation Paper, together with the accompanying… Read more
39 Essex Chambers October 2023 Mental Capacity Report and walkthrough
The October 2023 Mental Capacity Report is now out, and is much shorter than last month’s blockbuster (to everyone’s relief)…. Read more
Guest post – the risks of ReSPECT
[I am very pleased to be able to host here a guest post by Richard Charlton and Bharati Gidoomal, two… Read more
Brain stem death, an explainer of the law in England & Wales, and a question of consent
The case of Andy Casey sheds light again on the difficult question of diagnosing death by neurological criteria (‘DNC’), and… Read more
Independent review of disagreements in the care of critically ill children – the report and recommendations
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today, 18 September 2023, published the report of the review it was commissioned in… Read more
Distributed rights protection: The 2000 Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults and the challenge of securing fundamental rights across borders
In an article published in September 2023 in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, my colleague in Chambers, Chiara… Read more