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Category: Best interests


Mental health conditions, cancer investigation and capacity – the challenges of achieving parity

Posted on 6 December 2025

Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor [2025] EWCOP 44 (T3), bluntly, illustrates why those with mental health… Read more

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Communicating the communication limb of the capacity test

Posted on 24 November 2025 Updated on 24 November 2025

Re BV (Medical Treatment – Renal Cancer: Nephrectomy) [2025] EWCOP 41 (T3) is a relatively ‘routine’ medical treatment case (without,… Read more

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Holding the risk in medical treatment cases

Posted on 8 November 2025 Updated on 10 November 2025

Re RS (Best Interests: Surgery and Intensive Care) [2025] EWCOP 38 (T3) is a case which demonstrates the care and… Read more

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The Court of Protection: a Welsh language primer in key caselaw

Posted on 23 September 2025

TIRE v Carmarthenshire County Council [2024] EWCOP 81 (T2) is, as far as I know (but we would welcome correction)… Read more

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When does a Court of Protection order do more harm than good? Anorexia, the Court of Protection, and the ‘impossible burden’

Posted on 2 August 2025

Patricia’s Father & Ors v Patricia & Ors [2025] EWCOP 30 (T3) is a challenging case at a number of… Read more

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An important reminder that it is the judge who has the final say as to best interests

Posted on 15 May 2025

In University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v PK & Anor [2025] EWCOP 17 (T3), McKendrick J was asked… Read more

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

Posted on 1 March 2025 Updated on 2 March 2025

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board v JP & Ors [2025] EWCOP 4 T3 and [2025] EWCOP 8 (T3)… Read more

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Anorexia, the Court of Protection and the changing calculus of decision-making

Posted on 1 March 2025

When and under what circumstances it is legitimate not to treat those with anorexia is a very contentious topic, and… Read more

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Best interests, wishes and feelings: a worked example in an imperfect world

Posted on 22 November 2024

Aberdeenshire Council v SF (No 4) (Residence) [2024] EWCOP 67 (T3) is the most recent in a long-running series of… Read more

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Best interests decision-making as an aspect of good clinical governance – and further guidance on the way

Posted on 17 November 2024 Updated on 2 March 2025

NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board v Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability & Anor [2024] EWCOP 66 (T3) is the most… Read more

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  • 39 Essex Chambers December 2025 Mental Capacity Report now out – and walkthrough

    9 December 2025
    Welcome to the December 2025 Mental Capacity Report.  Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of... …Read More »
  • Capacity to marry – the English perspective (and is it the last word?)

    7 December 2025
    Hot on the heels of the first Irish case to consider capacity to marry under their new regime, by pure... …Read More »
  • Mental health conditions, cancer investigation and capacity – the challenges of achieving parity

    6 December 2025
    Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor [2025] EWCOP 44 (T3), bluntly, illustrates why those with mental health... …Read More »
  • Brain stem death testing and the courts: procedural fairness, and the definitive diagnosis of death

    4 December 2025
    The issue of brain stem death testing (or, more formally, diagnosing death by neurological criteria) is one that has been... …Read More »
  • Suicide prevention and the legalisation of assisted dying / assisted suicide – new position statement from the International Association of Suicide Prevention

    2 December 2025
    The International Association of Suicide Prevention published on 1 December a position statement on assisted suicide and euthanasia.  It is... …Read More »

RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • Liverpool City Council v VT & Ors 5 December 2025
  • City of London Corporation v John Bussandra 5 December 2025
  • Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor 1 December 2025
  • Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council v EKK 27 November 2025
  • TKSD Care Homes & Training Ltd & Anor v Care Quality Commission 24 November 2025
  • BV (Medical Treatment) (Renal Cancer; Nephrectomy), Re 20 November 2025
  • Alastair James Bowerman v Ian Benjamin Bowerman & Ors 18 November 2025
  • Cole Taylor & Anor v Secretary of State for Justice 17 November 2025
  • Daly v His Majesty’s Advocate (Scotland) 12 November 2025
  • Andrew James Riddle v NA 6 November 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Angus Cameron v Secretary of State for Justice & Anor 4 December 2025
  • Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor 1 December 2025
  • R v Sundeep Singh 28 November 2025
  • TKSD Care Homes & Training Ltd & Anor v Care Quality Commission 24 November 2025
  • BV (Medical Treatment) (Renal Cancer; Nephrectomy), Re 20 November 2025
  • R v Keaton Muldoon 18 November 2025
  • Sahayb Abu v Secretary of State for Justice 18 November 2025
  • R v Gemma Lisa Hindmarch 30 October 2025
  • Adam Clive Scott v The Estate of Richard Norman Scott & Ors 29 October 2025
  • MK v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Anor 29 October 2025

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Case (Change of status - conditional discharge recall). Cameron v SSJ [2025] EWCA Civ 1574
  • MH solicitor. Liverpool Law, 'Spotlight on: Peter Edwards' (November 2025)
  • Event. Court of Protection User Group: Property and affairs meeting (online, 21 January 2026)
  • Case (Procedural unfairness). Re R (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 1504
  • Case (Diagnosing death). Barts Health NHS Trust v MC [2025] EWHC 3140 (Fam)
  • Case (Brain stem testing abroad). A London NHS Trust v DT [2025] EWCOP 36 (T3)
  • Case (Cancer treatment). Powys Teaching Health Board v NT [2025] EWCOP 44 (T3)
  • Case (Treatment during s17 leave). Re RM (Application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)) [2024] UKSC 7
  • Case (Ombudsman complaint and tribunal). Hertfordshire County Council (LGSCO, 23 008 805)
  • Inadequate hospital. CQC, 'CQC rates St Andrews Healthcare Northampton as inadequate' (23 October 2025)

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