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Category: Cross-border

Best interests, Case comments, Children, Cross-border, Disabled Children's Social Care, DoLS, Inherent jurisdiction, Medical treatment, Mental Health Reform, Property and affairs, Welfare

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

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

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Posted on 22 November 2024
Case comments, Cross-border

Cross-border protection and capacity

The Health Service Executive of Ireland v SM [2024] EWCOP 60 (T3) is the sequel to a decision in 2020 concerning SM, an Irish citizen … Read More ›

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Posted on 3 November 2024
Case comments, Cross-border

Capacity, habitual residence, and internet use in Scotland – a Court of Protection conundrum

In Newcastle City Council v LM [2023] EWCOP 69, David Rees KC (sitting as a Tier 3 Judge of the Court of Protection) helpfully set … Read More ›

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Posted on 4 June 2024
Case comments, Cross-border

What to do when P wants to return home abroad?

In Re UR [2021] EWCOP 10, Hayden J has set out a checklist for situations where the Court of Protection is to be asked to … Read More ›

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Posted on 6 February 2021
Case comments, Cross-border

The habitual residence checklist (and an observation about necessity)

In The Health Service Executive of Ireland v IM & Anor [2020] EWCOP 51, Knowles J has given a helpful summary of the approach to … Read More ›

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Posted on 22 November 2020
Cross-border

When not to recognise a foreign order

In Re AB [2020] EWCOP 47, Senior Judge Hilder had to grapple with two difficult questions in the context of the Court of Protection’s international … Read More ›

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Posted on 17 October 2020
Case comments, Cross-border

Foreign powers of representation – making them effective in England & Wales

In Re Various applications concerning foreign representative powers [2019] EWCOP 52. Senior Judge Hilder has returned to the complex issues that arise where an attorney … Read More ›

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Posted on 11 November 2019
Case comments, Cross-border

Seize the day, or lose the person

In  FT v MM and RM [2019] EWHC 935 (Fam), Russell J has highlighted a real and problematic difference between the ability of the English … Read More ›

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Posted on 16 April 2019
Conferences, Cross-border, CRPD

Cross-border protection and the CRPD

I spent three days last week at a meeting on the cross-border protection of vulnerable adults convened by the European Commission and the Hague Conference … Read More ›

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Posted on 14 December 2018
Best interests, Case comments, Cross-border, Practice and Procedure

The Skripals before the Court of Protection – more detailed analysis

The Court of Protection was thrust into the centre of a major international incident in SSHD v Sergei Skripal; SSHD v Yulia Skripal [2018] EWCOP 8, concerning … Read More ›

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Posted on 27 March 2018

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RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v PK & Anor 14 May 2025
  • Evelyn Banks v Social Work England 12 May 2025
  • Kenneth Johnston v Financial Ombudsman Service 8 May 2025
  • J v Bath and North East Somerset Council & Ors 29 April 2025
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust v ZG & Ors 24 April 2025
  • Hebda v District Court in Krakow, Poland 15 April 2025
  • Argyll And Bute Council v RF 15 April 2025
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v MC 15 April 2025
  • M (A Child: Intermediaries), Re 10 April 2025
  • Karcihan Meric v Andrew Navis & Anor 4 April 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • The Duke of Sussex, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for The Home Department 2 May 2025
  • J v Bath and North East Somerset Council & Ors 29 April 2025
  • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, R (on the application of) v NHS North West London Integrated Care Board 16 April 2025
  • Shaun Morrow v HM Assistant Coroner for Merseyside (Sefton, Knowsley and St Helen's) 15 April 2025
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v MC 15 April 2025
  • A & Ors (Care – Welfare Decisions – Family Placement), Re 11 April 2025
  • Karcihan Meric v Andrew Navis & Anor 4 April 2025
  • Commissioner of Police of The Metropolis v Haroon Aswat 1 April 2025
  • Lisa Cheeley Eis v Government of the United States of America 26 March 2025
  • John Murcott, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Justice 25 March 2025

RSS ECtHR Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities cases

  • CASE OF N.S. v. THE UNITED KINGDOM 25 March 2025
  • CASE OF I.C. v. THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 27 February 2025
  • CASE OF CLIPEA AND GROSU v. THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 19 November 2024
  • CASE OF E.T. v. THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 12 November 2024
  • CASE OF PINDO MULLA v. SPAIN 17 September 2024
  • CASE OF D.H. AND OTHERS v. SWEDEN 25 July 2024
  • CASE OF DJERI AND OTHERS v. LATVIA 18 July 2024
  • CASE OF A.P. v. ARMENIA - [Czech Translation] summary by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic 18 June 2024
  • CASE OF A.P. v. ARMENIA – [Armenian translation] by the Ministry of Justice of Armenia 18 June 2024
  • CASE OF A.P. v. ARMENIA 18 June 2024

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Case (Discharge of rule 11(7)(b) appointments). KH v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust [2025] UKUT 128 (AAC)
  • Case (PB release set aside). Re Griffiths [2023] PBSA 24
  • Case (Prosecution of independent hospital). R v Cygnet Health Care Limited [2023] MHLO 6
  • Case (Non-treatment of diabetes under MHA). Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v MC [2025] EWHC 920 (Fam)
  • Case (Local authority consent to child's DOL). J v Bath and North East Somerset Council [2025] EWCA Civ 478
  • Case (Employment status of associate hospital managers). Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust v Moon [2024] EAT 4
  • NHS law book. David Lock, Leon Glenister and Hannah Gibbs, NHS Law and Practice (2nd edn, LAG 2024)
  • Case (Supported living accommodation and s117). Cheshire East Council (23 005 368) [2025] MHLO 9 (LGSCO)
  • Financial eligibility for certificated work. Legal Aid Agency, 'Means Assessment Guidance' (v14, April 2025)
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