The Law Commission has published today (13 July) a major consultation on the potential for reforms to the law… Read more
Law Commission consultation: Wills
Category: Case comments
Treading carefully: best interests and religious practices
In Re IH (Observance of Muslim Practice) [2017] EWCOP 9, Cobb J had to decide two questions in relation to… Read more
Election Corner – guest post
[By way of a sneak preview of the next Mental Capacity Report to be published shortly, I reproduce here as… Read more
Call for papers: European Understandings of Advance Decision-making: an Interdisciplinary Conference
I reproduce here a call for abstracts from Samantha Halliday at the University of Leeds for what looks like a… Read more
Support Decision-Making in Practice – masterclass
I share here an invitation from the Essex Autonomy Project and Empowerment Matters for a two-day Masterclass with Cher Nicholson on… Read more
Best interests, available options, and case management before the Court of Protection – the Supreme Court pronounces
A cross-post to the post on the Court of Protection Handbook by Sophy Miles, Neil Allen and I on the… Read more
Deprivation of liberty in intensive care – the Court of Appeal decides
The Court of Appeal has this morning (26 January) handed down judgment in R(Ferreira) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner… Read more
Anorexia: handing back control?
In Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v Z [2016] EWCOP 50, Hayden J had to contemplate three options… Read more
Briggs: case analysis
I reproduce here an updated version of the case summary and comment on the case of Briggs v Briggs [2016] EWCOP 53 that… Read more
SRK: Court of Appeal dismisses appeal
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the Secretary of State’s appeal against the decision of Charles J in Re SRK… Read more