Royal Assent was given today (16 May) to what is now the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019, although no details… Read more
Author: Alex RK
Alex is a barrister, writer and educator, and creator of the website www.mclap.org.uk
Sexual relations, rights and capacity
The judgment in Re NB [2019] EWCOP 17 has just appeared on Bailli of a hearing on 7 May 2019… Read more
Communicating diagnostic uncertainty – great research opportunity
The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (in the Faculty of Law) and The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (in… Read more
Reproductive rights and when it is ‘right’ to go to court
University Hospitals of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation Trust v J (Medical Treatment: Best Interests) [2019] EWCOP 16 concerned whether it… Read more
Capacity, pre-nuptial agreements and knowledge of your own assets
PBM v TGT & X Local Authority [2019] EWCOP 6 addresses the questions of capacity to marry, enter into a… Read more
Executive dysfunction under the judicial spotlight
In TB v KB and LH (Capacity to Conduct Proceedings) [2019] EWCOP 14 Macdonald J had cause to consider the… Read more
Liberty Protection Safeguards resources page
Inspired (as so often) by Lucy Series, I have added a new LPS resources page on my website to accompany… Read more
All (or at least part) go for the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland)
Confounding the expectations of those who had thought that the stalemate in Stormont meant there was no possibility that MCA… Read more
LPS – a parallel world?
Given the passing of final Parliamentary hurdles by the LPS, facilitated by the abandonment of any statutory definition of deprivation… Read more
LPS is go
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill passed its final legislative stage in the House of Lords this evening (24 April) and… Read more