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Category: Medical treatment


What should happen where it appears impossible to engage the person? A high-stakes question for the Court of Protection

Posted on 19 June 2023 Updated on 20 June 2023

In Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust & Anor v RL & Ors [2023] EWCOP 22 (a decision handed down in… Read more

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Posted in Best interests, Capacity, Case comments, Medical treatment, Mental Health     Tags: assessing capacity, Best interests, capacity, communication     Leave a comment     


Reporting restrictions and serious medical treatment cases – a difficult (evidenced) balance

Posted on 31 March 2023 Updated on 4 April 2023

In the conjoined appeals of Abbasi and Haastrup [2023] EWCA Civ 331, the Court of Appeal has grappled with the… Read more

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Advance decisions to refuse treatment – presuming a presumption of capacity?

Posted on 20 January 2023 Updated on 21 January 2023

In NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB v JH [2023] EWCOP 3, Hayden J was asked to consider whether an advance decision… 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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Archie Battersbee: the context and the relevance of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Posted on 3 August 2022

For several days, the case of Archie Battersbee has been a lead story in the media in England & Wales.  … Read more

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Posted in Case comments, Medical treatment     Tags: children, CRPD, Life-sustaining treatment     2 Comments     


The black box of the judicial visit to P – the Court of Appeal’s concerns and requirements

Posted on 26 November 2021

The Court of Appeal has made some very important observations about the role of judicial visits in Court of Protection… Read more

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Best interests decision-making, dignity and delay – obligations that cannot be avoided

Posted on 14 November 2021

In North West London Clinical Commissioning Group v GU [2021] EWCOP 59, Hayden J made a series of very powerful… Read more

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Advance decisions, Jehovah’s Witnesses and what does “doing something clearly inconsistent” with your ADRT mean?

Posted on 22 September 2021 Updated on 23 September 2021

The (surprisingly) small body of case-law relating to advance decisions to refuse treatments has been added to by a judgment… Read more

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Gillick competence, puberty-blockers and the Court of Appeal

Posted on 17 September 2021 Updated on 17 September 2021

In Bell & Anor v The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWCA Civ 1363, the Court of Appeal… 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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    12 December 2025
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    12 December 2025
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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 »

RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • London Borough of Lewisham v SL & Anor 19 December 2025
  • Priti Patel v Nicholas O'Sullivan & Ors 19 December 2025
  • Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust v EF & Ors 19 December 2025
  • SW v Nottingham City Council & Anor 19 December 2025
  • White and Sterling Residential Care Limited v Care Quality Commission 17 December 2025
  • Nicola Anne Lowe v Lucy Daniells 17 December 2025
  • The Nursing and Midwifery Council v Ishaq Ibrahim 15 December 2025
  • King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v LE (by her litigation friend the Official Solicitor) (Serious Medical Treatment) 11 December 2025
  • LM v NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board 9 December 2025
  • Liverpool City Council v VT & Ors 5 December 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust v EF & Ors 19 December 2025
  • Jamie Jenkins v R 18 December 2025
  • White and Sterling Residential Care Limited v Care Quality Commission 17 December 2025
  • ABW, R (on the application of) v Secretary Of State for the Home Department 17 December 2025
  • 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

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Legislation. Mental Health Act 2025
  • Tribunal legal representatives. Tribunal Policy: Legal representatives (10 December 2025)
  • 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

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