In Rooman v Belgium [2019] ECHR 105, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights undertook an important… Read more
Deprivation of liberty – appropriate places and appropriate treatment
Category: CRPD
Life-sustaining treatment – what would P have done? And does it make a difference that she is in a ‘pro-life’ nursing home?
In A Clinical Commissioning Group v P (Withdrawal of CANH) [2019] EWCOP 18, MacDonald J gave a detailed judgment to… Read more
Capacity, pre-nuptial agreements and knowledge of your own assets
PBM v TGT & X Local Authority [2019] EWCOP 6 addresses the questions of capacity to marry, enter into a… Read more
Deprivation of liberty and disability- its meaning and (il)legitimacy?
A report has just been published by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Catalina Devandas, on ‘Ending… Read more
Voluntary psychiatric patients, suicide and the duty to protect – Strasbourg pronounces
In Fernandes de Olivera v Portugal [2019] ECHR 106, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, in a… Read more
Cross-border protection and the CRPD
I spent three days last week at a meeting on the cross-border protection of vulnerable adults convened by the European… Read more
CRPD corrections and updates
In an unusual step, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has published a correction to General Comment… Read more