The CPRD Committee issued its most recent concluding observations in September 2019, on Albania, Australia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greece, India, Iraq, Kuwait, and Myanmar. For … Read More ›
Category: CRPD
In Rooman v Belgium [2019] ECHR 105, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights undertook an important review and clarification of its … Read More ›
In A Clinical Commissioning Group v P (Withdrawal of CANH) [2019] EWCOP 18, MacDonald J gave a detailed judgment to explain why he endorsed an … Read More ›
PBM v TGT & X Local Authority [2019] EWCOP 6 addresses the questions of capacity to marry, enter into a prenuptial agreement and also disclosure … Read More ›
A report has just been published by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Catalina Devandas, on ‘Ending the deprivation of liberty on … Read More ›
In Fernandes de Olivera v Portugal [2019] ECHR 106, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, in a majority decision, has identified the … Read More ›
I spent three days last week at a meeting on the cross-border protection of vulnerable adults convened by the European Commission and the Hague Conference … Read More ›
In an unusual step, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has published a correction to General Comment 1, on Article 12 and … Read More ›