The issue facing the Upper Tribunal in SF v Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership [2023] UKUT 205 (AAC) was crisply… Read more
A Health and Social Care Trust v JU [2023] NIFam 12 provides an interesting take on the extent of positive… Read more
Theis J has waded into the thickets of Schedule 1A. In Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v JS &… Read more
The Supreme Court has clarified one aspect of the perennially thorny question of responsibility for funding after-care under s.117 MHA… Read more
In Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust & Anor v RL & Ors [2023] EWCOP 22 (a decision handed down in… Read more
What (if any) threshold needs to be satisfied before the Court of Protection can exercise its (relatively) newly discovered ‘contingency’… Read more
When can a mental health patient lawfully remain in the community, rather than in hospital, but be deprived of their… Read more
In a perhaps slightly curious development in 2020, the DHSC decided that its own statutory guidance (accompanying the Care Act)… Read more
This is an updated version of the post first published on 26 January 2021. I need to emphasise that what… Read more
In Devon Partnership NHS Trust v SSHC [2021] EWHC 101 (Admin), handed down on 22 January 2021, the Divisional Court has… Read more