In B v A Local Authority [2019] EWCA Civ 913, the Court of Appeal has made both general and specific observations about the assessment of … Read More ›
Category: Case comments
In Rooman v Belgium [2019] ECHR 105, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights undertook an important review and clarification of its … Read More ›
In A Clinical Commissioning Group v P (Withdrawal of CANH) [2019] EWCOP 18, MacDonald J gave a detailed judgment to explain why he endorsed an … Read More ›
The May 2019 Mental Capacity Report will shortly be landing in inboxes for those already on the mailing list. Highlights this month include: (1) In … Read More ›
Royal Assent was given today (16 May) to what is now the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019, although no details have yet been given as … Read More ›
The judgment in Re NB [2019] EWCOP 17 has just appeared on Bailli of a hearing on 7 May 2019 at which Hayden J considered … Read More ›
University Hospitals of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation Trust v J (Medical Treatment: Best Interests) [2019] EWCOP 16 concerned whether it was in the best interests … Read More ›
PBM v TGT & X Local Authority [2019] EWCOP 6 addresses the questions of capacity to marry, enter into a prenuptial agreement and also disclosure … Read More ›
In TB v KB and LH (Capacity to Conduct Proceedings) [2019] EWCOP 14 Macdonald J had cause to consider the phenomenon of executive dysfunction in … Read More ›
Confounding the expectations of those who had thought that the stalemate in Stormont meant there was no possibility that MCA (NI) 2016 would ever be … Read More ›