The Essex Autonomy Project has just published a major report entitled “Towards Compliance with CRPD Art.12 in Capacity/Incapacity Legislation across… Read more
The Law Commission has just published an interim report upon its Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty project, to which… Read more
In Staffordshire County Council v SRK & Ors [2016] EWCOP 27, Charles J has grappled with the thorny question of… Read more
Patricia Rickard-Clarke has kindly given me permission to reproduce here the article that she wrote for the May edition of… Read more
In NHS Trusts v C [2016] EWCOP 17, C was detained under s.2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 with… Read more
In the London Borough of Southwark v KA & Ors [2016] EWHC 661 (Fam), Parker J had to grapple –… Read more
The “refreshed” (ie corrected and updated) statutory guidance has now been published. It takes account of regulatory changes, feedback from… Read more
A cross-post here to my fellow author Sophy Miles’ excellent post on the Court of Protection Handbook site on the… Read more
Here is the link to a further iteration of the transparency guidance accompanying the pilot, dealing with anonymisation of local… Read more
Following feedback that the procedure being adopted to ensure that parties were anonymised was perhaps a little too over-zealous, new… Read more