As part of the Mental Health & Justice project, a new website has been launched with guidelines for clinicians and social workers in England & … Read More ›
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The Court of Appeal has made some very important observations about the role of judicial visits in Court of Protection cases. In Re AH (Serious … Read More ›
Re ZK (No 2) [2021] EWCOP 61 is the sequel to one reported upon earlier here, and contains some important observations in relation to assessment of … Read More ›
The Supreme Court has for the first time looked in detail at what it means to have or lack capacity to make a decision, and … Read More ›
Not just those within Ireland, but also those interested from other jurisdictions, in seeing how a hugely important law reform in this area is being … Read More ›
The Ministry of Justice are consulting on a potential mechanism to enable families seeking access to small funds belonging to loved ones who lack mental … Read More ›
In Hull City Council v A & Ors [2021] EWCOP 60, Poole J was concerned with – in effect – what was less bad: allowing a … Read More ›
In North West London Clinical Commissioning Group v GU [2021] EWCOP 59, Hayden J made a series of very powerful observations about the obligations imposed … Read More ›
What (if any) threshold needs to be satisfied before the Court of Protection can exercise its (relatively) newly discovered ‘contingency’ jurisdiction? This important question was … Read More ›
When can a mental health patient lawfully remain in the community, rather than in hospital, but be deprived of their liberty there? In 2018, the … Read More ›