In Lukes v Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust & Anor [2024] EWHC 753 (KB) Julian Knowles J had to consider whether … Read More ›
Category: Mental Health
R (Parkin) v His Majesty’s Assistant Coroner for Inner London (East) [2024] EWHC 744 (Admin) is an important, but curious, case about the limits of … Read More ›
If you have been found by a criminal court that you did not know what you were doing was wrong when you killed someone, should … Read More ›
In Re RM Application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2024] UKSC 7, the provisions of the Mental Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1986 came under scrutiny, shedding light at … Read More ›
In Devon Partnership NHS Trust v SSHC [2021] EWHC 101 (Admin), handed down on 22 January 2021, the Divisional Court held that “the phrases “personally seen” in … Read More ›
Lancashire County Council v X [2023] EWHC 2667 (Fam) was rightly described by the judge as extremely disturbing, involving the most intense level of restrictions … Read More ›
The issue facing the Upper Tribunal in SF v Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership [2023] UKUT 205 (AAC) was crisply delineated by UTJ Church thus: … Read More ›
A Health and Social Care Trust v JU [2023] NIFam 12 provides an interesting take on the extent of positive obligations under Article 2 ECHR … Read More ›
Theis J has waded into the thickets of Schedule 1A. In Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v JS & Others (Schedule 1A Mental Capacity … Read More ›
The Supreme Court has clarified one aspect of the perennially thorny question of responsibility for funding after-care under s.117 MHA 1983. In R (on the … Read More ›