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Capacity, Case comments

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 purposes the critical questions for … Read More ›

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Posted on 12 May 2025
Legislative developments

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 involving adults who lack capacity. … Read More ›

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Posted on 7 May 2025
Case comments, Children, Deprivation of liberty

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 in Re J: Local Authority … Read More ›

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Posted on 29 April 202529 April 2025
Case comments, Media, Medical treatment, Practice and Procedure

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 the High Court to grant … Read More ›

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Posted on 16 April 2025
Case comments, Children, Deprivation of liberty

Parental consent to the confinement of younger children – again

The vexed question of whether and under what circumstances parents can consent to (or otherwise authorise) the confinement of children under 16 came before HHJ … Read More ›

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Posted on 3 April 2025
Case comments

Annotated Mental Health Act 1983 with changes proposed in Mental Health Bill – updated

Minor changes were made by way of Government amendments to the MH Bill as it went through the Committee stage in the House of Lords … Read More ›

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Posted on 17 March 202518 March 2025
Capacity, Case comments

‘Stitch,’ capacity and complexity – a masterclass in capacity determination

Cobb J is shortly to take his position on the Court of Appeal.  The decision in Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council v LS [2025] EWCOP 10 … Read More ›

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Posted on 13 March 202514 March 2025
Research of interest

The MCA and Multiple Exclusion Homelessness – a scoping paper walkthrough

In this video, I do a walkthrough of Approaches to the mental capacity assessment of people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness in England: A scoping paper by … Read More ›

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Posted on 10 March 202510 March 2025
Legislative developments

Fees changes in the Court of Protection

From 1 April 2025, with amendments to the Court of Protection Fees Order 2007 and the Civil Proceeding Fees Order 2008 respectively, fees relating to … Read More ›

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Posted on 1 March 2025
Best interests, Case comments, Practice and Procedure

Consultation, (rotten) compromises and challenging complacency – Hayden J on the warpath

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board v JP & Ors [2025] EWCOP 4 T3 and [2025] EWCOP 8 (T3) are a pair of cases … Read More ›

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Posted on 1 March 20252 March 2025

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  • Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – updated positions of key bodies and corrections to impact assessments

    15 May 2025
    I have updated my resources page to include the updated position of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a statement made …Read More »
  • 39 Essex Chambers May 2025 Mental Capacity Report – issue 150!

    13 May 2025
    The May 2025 Mental Capacity Report.  It is our 150th issue, and, to mark this, Tor Butler-Cole KC and have …Read More »
  • Litigation capacity – and what happens if you never had it?

    12 May 2025
    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

    11 May 2025
    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)

    9 May 2025
    With thanks to Rosalind English of the 1 Crown Office Row Law Pod UK podcast for having me on, two …Read More »

RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v PK & Anor 14 May 2025
  • Evelyn Banks v Social Work England 12 May 2025
  • Kenneth Johnston v Financial Ombudsman Service 8 May 2025
  • J v Bath and North East Somerset Council & Ors 29 April 2025
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust v ZG & Ors 24 April 2025
  • Hebda v District Court in Krakow, Poland 15 April 2025
  • Argyll And Bute Council v RF 15 April 2025
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v MC 15 April 2025
  • M (A Child: Intermediaries), Re 10 April 2025
  • Karcihan Meric v Andrew Navis & Anor 4 April 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • The Duke of Sussex, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for The Home Department 2 May 2025
  • J v Bath and North East Somerset Council & Ors 29 April 2025
  • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, R (on the application of) v NHS North West London Integrated Care Board 16 April 2025
  • Shaun Morrow v HM Assistant Coroner for Merseyside (Sefton, Knowsley and St Helen's) 15 April 2025
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v MC 15 April 2025
  • A & Ors (Care – Welfare Decisions – Family Placement), Re 11 April 2025
  • Karcihan Meric v Andrew Navis & Anor 4 April 2025
  • Commissioner of Police of The Metropolis v Haroon Aswat 1 April 2025
  • Lisa Cheeley Eis v Government of the United States of America 26 March 2025
  • John Murcott, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Justice 25 March 2025

RSS ECtHR Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities cases

  • CASE OF N.S. v. THE UNITED KINGDOM 25 March 2025
  • CASE OF I.C. v. THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 27 February 2025
  • CASE OF CLIPEA AND GROSU v. THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 19 November 2024
  • CASE OF E.T. v. THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 12 November 2024
  • CASE OF PINDO MULLA v. SPAIN 17 September 2024
  • CASE OF D.H. AND OTHERS v. SWEDEN 25 July 2024
  • CASE OF DJERI AND OTHERS v. LATVIA 18 July 2024
  • CASE OF A.P. v. ARMENIA 18 June 2024
  • CASE OF DÁNIEL KARSAI v. HUNGARY 13 June 2024
  • CASE OF L.T. v. UKRAINE 6 June 2024

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Case (PB release set aside). Re Griffiths [2023] PBSA 24
  • Case (Prosecution of independent hospital). R v Cygnet Health Care Limited [2023] MHLO 6
  • Case (Non-treatment of diabetes under MHA). Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v MC [2025] EWHC 920 (Fam)
  • Case (Local authority consent to child's DOL). J v Bath and North East Somerset Council [2025] EWCA Civ 478
  • Case (Employment status of associate hospital managers). Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust v Moon [2024] EAT 4
  • NHS law book. David Lock, Leon Glenister and Hannah Gibbs, NHS Law and Practice (2nd edn, LAG 2024)
  • Case (Supported living accommodation and s117). Cheshire East Council (23 005 368) [2025] MHLO 9 (LGSCO)
  • Financial eligibility for certificated work. Legal Aid Agency, 'Means Assessment Guidance' (v14, April 2025)
  • Financial eligibility. Legal Aid Agency, 'Keycard 61' (April 2025)
  • Case (ADHD and DLA). PM v SSWP [2025] UKUT 85 (AAC)

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