In part because the Court of Protection Amendment Rules are written in typically impenetrable statutory instrument style, and in part… Read more
COPR: what do the new rules actually do (and mean)?
Category: Legislative developments
All change at the COP (Part 1)
A quick cross-post to the Court of Protection of Handbook site and the post there summarising the important changes to… Read more
Mental Health Act Code of Practice now out
The new Mental Health Act Code of Practice has been published, to come into force in April subject to Parliamentary… Read more
Department of Health letter on MCA and Deprivation of Liberty
With thanks to Niall Fry of DH for permission to reproduce this, here is a letter sent out to MCA/DOLS leads… Read more
Care Act Part 1 secondary legislation and guidance published
In a positive flurry of activity, the majority of the secondary legislation (both ‘affirmative’ and ‘negative’) accompanying Part 1 of… Read more
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities pronounces on Article 14
With thanks, as ever, to the eagle-eyed Lucy Series for bringing this to my attention, the Committee on the Rights… Read more
Brain injury and the MCA – making the abstract real
In a news item that should have made its way into the most recent Newsletter, a group of experienced brain injury… Read more
Deprivation of liberty – what’s coming down the line
With thanks to Niall Fry of the Department of Health for permission to publish this, I reproduce here a letter… Read more
A defence of ‘fusion’ law
[I am very grateful to George Szmukler, Professor of Psychiatry and Society at the Institute of Psychiatry, KCL, for this… Read more
Self-neglect – a resource and another missed opportunity?
The Department of Health is currently consulting on the draft regulations and Guidance to accompany the implementation of Part I… Read more