Welcome to the October 2020 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of… Read more
[I am very pleased to be able to host here a guest post by Richard Charlton and Bharati Gidoomal, two… Read more
[This post has been superseded] The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 and set out a series of draconian… Read more
The JCHR has today (21 September) published a detailed and extensive report into the human rights implications of the Government’s… Read more
Following (slightly oddly) the publication of the guidance as to the law, the relevant legislation has now been laid before… Read more
Ahead of legislation to be introduced temporarily to amend the Wills Act 1837 to provide that the requirement for the… Read more
NHSE-I published on 19 May updated guidance on the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the use of the… Read more
In VE v AO & Ors [2020] EWCOP 23, Lieven J was asked to determine whether it was in the… Read more
The Vice-President of the Court of Protection, Hayden J, has written to Directors of Adult Social Services (in a letter… Read more
A recorded session with Lorraine Currie, Chelle Farnan and I on remote assessments (under the umbrella of the National Mental… Read more