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Category: COVID-19


Triage, COVID-19 and decision-making – a perspective from the courts

Posted on 18 July 2024

Perhaps prompted by the publication of the first report of the COVID-19 inquiry today (on the resilience and preparedness of… Read more

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Adults with impairments are not big children – a ringing refutation of a “regressive” assertion

Posted on 17 December 2022 Updated on 19 December 2022

Hayden J had the chance in Re RN [2022] EWCOP 53 to put comprehensively to bed a suggestion that it… Read more

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The Court of Protection and “the most complex Covid patient in the world”

Posted on 5 September 2021 Updated on 5 September 2021

The Court of Protection braced itself when COVID-19 hit for decisions to be placed before it about the withdrawal of… Read more

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COVID-19 vaccination – best interests is not code for mandatory vaccination (and a reminder you can’t fail a capacity assessment)

Posted on 19 May 2021 Updated on 19 May 2021

The decision in SS v LB Richmond on Thames and SWL CCG [2021] EWCOP 31 is different to others that have… Read more

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When would continuing life-sustaining treatment be unethical? Another agonising dilemma before the Court of Protection

Posted on 26 February 2021

In Re NZ [2021] EWCOP 16, Hayden J had to address, in even more acute form, the dilemma that he… Read more

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Vaccination – another case, and confirmation of the centrality of the person’s wishes and feelings

Posted on 21 February 2021

In a further judgment concerning vaccination for COVID-19, Hayden J has amplified the approach that he set out in E… Read more

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COVID-19 Vaccination and the MCA – the first Court of Protection judgment

Posted on 27 January 2021 Updated on 28 January 2021

In E (Vaccine) [2021] EWCOP 7, the Vice-President of the Court of Protection, Hayden J, has given the first reported… Read more

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Recent Posts

  • Disordered eating and the gaps between services – the consequences for the Court of Protection

    12 July 2025
    Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board v AB & Anor [2025] EWCOP 24 (T3) is a judgment about case management in a... …Read More »
  • Habitual residence, moving jurisdictions and ‘lawful authority’

    12 July 2025
    In Re A (Habitual Residence) [2025] EWCOP 22 (T2), HHJ Millar set out a helpful worked example of determining whether... …Read More »
  • Capacity in the rear view mirror – how does the presumption work?

    12 July 2025
    The problem of the retrospective consideration of capacity troubled Costs Judge Whalan in Furley Page LLP v KFL [2025] EWHC... …Read More »
  • The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and the NHS 10 Year Plan

    3 July 2025
    This can be a very short post.  Those reading Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England published on 3... …Read More »
  • Cross border mental capacity frameworks: new joint information note from the Law Societies of Scotland and England & Wales

    29 June 2025
    In a coincidence of timing (both projects having been started and running independently, albeit with two common joint participants [fn]),... …Read More »

RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board v AB & Anor 10 July 2025
  • Furley Page LLP v KFL 4 July 2025
  • N (A Child) (Deprivation of Liberty Orders), Re 3 July 2025
  • AK, R (on application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department 1 July 2025
  • Martin Charles Armstrong (as Trustee in Bankruptcy) v Vanessa Temblett & Anor 1 July 2025
  • Carolyne Mary Parfitt v Victoria Jane Jones & Anor 24 June 2025
  • Kieron Dominic Scully v Northamptonshire County Council 11 June 2025
  • Oxford University & Ors v AX 10 June 2025
  • Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council v A & Ors 10 June 2025
  • AB (ADRT: Validity and Applicability), Re 10 June 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board v AB & Anor 10 July 2025
  • Damien Osmond v R 4 July 2025
  • Right Support Management Limited v The London Borough of Hillingdon 3 July 2025
  • His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for West Yorkshire (Western District), Re 3 July 2025
  • N (A Child) (Deprivation of Liberty Orders), Re 3 July 2025
  • Al-Haq, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Business and Trade 30 June 2025
  • Jada Bailey, R (on the application of) v HM Senior Coroner for East London 30 June 2025
  • Yaa Foriwaa Appiah & Anor v Leeds City Council & Anor 19 June 2025
  • Surrey County Council v BC 11 June 2025
  • AB (ADRT: Validity and Applicability), Re 10 June 2025

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Case (No complaint without consent). West Sussex County Council (24 017 091) [2025] MHLO 15 (LGSCO)
  • Event. Court of Protection User Group: Property and affairs meeting (online, 9 July 2025)
  • Minutes. COP User Group, 'Meeting (P and A): Minutes and action points' (22 January 2025)
  • Ill-treatment by care worker. Aidan Rednedge, 'Moment cruel carer throws dementia-stricken pensioner, 88, around 'like a rag doll' and threatens to 'flog him' days before he died' (Daily Mail, 30 June 2025)
  • Case ("Right Care Right Person" PFD report). Sophie Cotton (Durham Constabulary) [2025] MHLO 14 (PFD)
  • Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 151, June 2025)
  • Case (Extradition). Kruk v Judicial Authority of Poland [2020] EWHC 620 (Admin)
  • Case (Employment status). Scully v Northamptonshire County Council [2025] EAT 83
  • Case (Welfare benefits). MOC v SSWP (DLA) [2020] UKUT 134 (AAC)
  • Case (Immigration). Re CE (Cameroon) [2023] UKAITUR PA011122020

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