The full text of the MC(A)A 2019 has now been published, to the relief of all those who were being… Read more
Full text of Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 now published
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39 Essex Chambers May Mental Capacity Reports
The May 2019 Mental Capacity Report will shortly be landing in inboxes for those already on the mailing list. Highlights… Read more
An Act is passed – the LPS Bill gets Royal Assent
Royal Assent was given today (16 May) to what is now the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019, although no details… Read more
Sexual relations, rights and capacity
The judgment in Re NB [2019] EWCOP 17 has just appeared on Bailli of a hearing on 7 May 2019… Read more
Reproductive rights and when it is ‘right’ to go to court
University Hospitals of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation Trust v J (Medical Treatment: Best Interests) [2019] EWCOP 16 concerned whether it… Read more
Capacity, pre-nuptial agreements and knowledge of your own assets
PBM v TGT & X Local Authority [2019] EWCOP 6 addresses the questions of capacity to marry, enter into a… Read more
Executive dysfunction under the judicial spotlight
In TB v KB and LH (Capacity to Conduct Proceedings) [2019] EWCOP 14 Macdonald J had cause to consider the… Read more
All (or at least part) go for the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland)
Confounding the expectations of those who had thought that the stalemate in Stormont meant there was no possibility that MCA… Read more
LPS – a parallel world?
Given the passing of final Parliamentary hurdles by the LPS, facilitated by the abandonment of any statutory definition of deprivation… Read more
LPS is go
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill passed its final legislative stage in the House of Lords this evening (24 April) and… Read more