The CPRD Committee issued its most recent concluding observations in September 2019, on Albania, Australia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greece, India, Iraq, Kuwait, and Myanmar. For … Read More ›
Category: Legislative developments
In a setback both for rights protection and for fusion enthusiasts, it has been announced that the deprivation of liberty provisions in the Mental Capacity … Read More ›
The Civil Justice Council has issued a detailed paper setting out the current position and proposals for reform of the procedural rules and practices in … Read More ›
The full text of the MC(A)A 2019 has now been published, to the relief of all those who were being driven to despair by trying … Read More ›
Given the passing of final Parliamentary hurdles by the LPS, facilitated by the abandonment of any statutory definition of deprivation of liberty, it was distinctly … Read More ›
The Parliament website now (11 April) tells us that the very slow motion game of Ping-Pong in the final stages of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) … Read More ›
Ahead of today’s ping-pong stage in the Commons, the Government has published its response to the two reports of the JCHR on LPS. It is … Read More ›
The Government has just (29 March) published its proposed response to the Lords amendments to the LPS. The Government proposes that the Lords definition of … Read More ›
The ping-pong stage of LPS continues, it just having been announced that the Bill will return to Parliament on 2 April, for the House of … Read More ›
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 (MC(A)A) received Royal Assent on 16 May. When comes into force it will sweep away the (mostly unloved) DoLS … Read More ›