For years, lawyers and clinicians have thrown around the term ‘Gillick competence’ as if it were a universal test to… Read more
The problem of the retrospective consideration of capacity troubled Costs Judge Whalan in Furley Page LLP v KFL [2025] EWHC… Read more
Johnston v Financial Ombudsman Service [2025] EWCA Civ 551 is a case with a particularly complicated procedural history, but for present… Read more
Cobb J is shortly to take his position on the Court of Appeal. The decision in Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council… Read more
CT v London Borough of Lambeth & Anor [2025] EWCOP 6 (T3) is in many ways the companion piece to… Read more
Individual decision-making and its complexities was very much in the spotlight this week in the context of the oral evidence… Read more
MacPherson v Sunderland City Council [2024] EWCA Civ 1579 is another chapter in the very long-running saga concerning contempt proceedings… Read more
Ahead of more detailed coverage of the nuances of this complicated case in the February 2025 Mental Capacity Report, it… Read more
Re ZX (Capacity to Engage in Sexual Relations) [2024] EWCA Civ 1462 is a leapfrog appeal from a Tier 2… Read more
R & Anor v A & Anor [2024] EWFC 341 is a very sad case involving surrogacy. It was an… Read more