A cross-post here to my fellow author Sophy Miles’ excellent post on the Court of Protection Handbook site on the… Read more
What to do, what to do – the procedural implications of Cheshire West
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Transparency Guidance further updated
Here is the link to a further iteration of the transparency guidance accompanying the pilot, dealing with anonymisation of local… Read more
Transparency guidance on anonymisation updated
Following feedback that the procedure being adopted to ensure that parties were anonymised was perhaps a little too over-zealous, new… Read more
Storytellers wanted for VOICES project
The excellent VOICES project at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the NUI Galway is a really important project in… Read more
Increasing Understanding and Uptake of Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment in Wales – report published
A report has just been published by the Public Policy Institute for Wales for the Welsh Minister for Health and… Read more
Transparency Order Explained
My admirable Chambers colleague Tor Butler-Cole has prepared an unofficial annotated version of the Transparency Pilot order to assist explaining… Read more
One stage closer – the NI Bill (mostly) survives Committee scrutiny
At its meeting on 25 January 2016, the Ad Hoc Joint Committee to Consider the Mental Capacity Bill agreed to… Read more
A parent cannot consent to the deprivation of liberty of their 16 or 17 year old child
In Birmingham City Council v D [2016] EWCOP 8, the sequel to a case discussed here, Keehan J has held: “however close… Read more
Transparency – it’s all go
The Transparency Pilot that we have covered previously is now finalised and will be starting on 29 January (NB, this… Read more
So that was 2015 – a mini-review of the year
I think that it can properly be said that 2015 was the year that the MCA, if it did not… Read more