Proving less is not always more, some helpful feedback received via the great echo chamber of Twitter suggests that I… Read more
‘Vulnerable adults’ – a follow-up
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Vulnerable Adults Bill – help wanted
The problem There is a significant cohort of individuals who (1) do not lack capacity for purposes of the Mental… Read more
ReSPECT – a new approach to advance care planning
It is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that DNACPR/DNR notices are not working. Cases such as Tracey and Winspear show… Read more
Draft Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill now published
The wait is now over! The Law Commission’s Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty report and draft Bill has now… Read more
Job opportunity – Wellcome Trust Mental Health and Justice project
Applications are invited for a part-time Web & Digital Communication Officer for the Wellcome Trust Mental Health and Justice Project… Read more
Second issue of International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law now out
The second issue is now out, edited by Daniel Wang, Ruth Fletcher, Catherine Penny, Richard Ashcroft and I. The articles include:… Read more
New research report: The Participation of P in Welfare Cases in the Court of Protection
A huge – and hugely impressive – report on the participation of P has just been published by Cardiff University’s… 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