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Category: Job/Research Opportunities


Job vacancy – lawyer in the Official Solicitor’s healthcare & welfare team

Posted on 21 December 2023

A vacancy has arisen in the team.  As per the recruitment page here: The Official Solicitor’s Healthcare and Welfare team manages… Read more

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King’s College London ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health recruiting for its Lived Experience Advisory Board

Posted on 30 March 2023

The King’s College London ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health is looking for 5 new members for its Lived… Read more

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Lawyer vacancies at the Office of the Official Solicitor

Posted on 18 March 2023

The OSPT is recruiting again for lawyers in the Healthcare & Welfare team and also the Civil Litigation team.  Details of four… Read more

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Mediation of Medical Treatment Disputes: A Therapeutic Justice Model – help wanted

Posted on 6 February 2023

Dr Jaime Lindsey, of the University of Essex, would like your help if either (1) you have been involved in… Read more

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Excellent research post opportunity – Senior Research Associate in Healthcare Law at Bristol University

Posted on 14 July 2021

The University of Bristol is looking for a Senior Research Associate in Healthcare Law will be based in the Centre… Read more

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Essex Autonomy Project research opportunities

Posted on 19 October 2020

The Essex Autonomy Project is currently accepting applications to fill two full-time, fixed-term post-doctoral research positions.: One is on the… Read more

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Communicating diagnostic uncertainty – great research opportunity

Posted on 13 May 2019

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (in the Faculty of Law) and The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (in… Read more

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Law Society Mental Health and Disability Committee vacancies

Posted on 29 March 2018

The (English) Law Society MHDC is recruiting to fill 3 vacancies, with a deadline of Friday 13 April.  Despite the inauspicious… Read more

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Scottish Mental Health law reform opportunity

Posted on 30 September 2017

The Scottish Government is setting up a review to consider whether the provisions of the Mental Health (Care & Treatment)… Read more

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Joint Committee on Human Rights – Senior Legal Advisor sought

Posted on 1 July 2017

The JCHR is recruiting for a new Senior Legal Advisor, with a closing date of 9th July.   This post is the… Read more

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Recent Posts

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    4 November 2026
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  • November 2026 Mental Capacity Reports and post-AGNI case tracker

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  • Deprivation of liberty and public protection post-AGNI

    30 October 2026
    HHJ Burrows continues to display a Stakhanovite approach to producing post-AGNI judgments.  In ZZ (Deprivation of Liberty in the Public... …Read More »
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RSS feed: National Archives Mental Capacity cases National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • PPT v Independent Television News Limited & Anor 3 November 2026
  • The London Borough of Bromley v The Public Guardian 30 October 2026
  • ZZ (Deprivation of Liberty in the Public Interest) (No 2) 29 October 2026
  • Brian Padgett v David Boulter 26 October 2026
  • Irwin Mitchell Trust Corporation v PW & Anor 20 October 2026
  • Barts Health NHS Trust v CG (by his Litigation Friend the Official solicitor) 16 October 2026
  • NHS LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND ICB v AA 15 October 2026
  • MRS T MCMANUS v BRITISH AIRWAYS PLC 9 October 2026
  • ZEDRA TRUST COMPANY (UK) LIMITED v GRAHAM DAVID TUSTAIN 9 October 2026
  • ZEDRA TRUST COMPANY (UK) LIMITED v GRAHAM DAVID TUSTAIN 9 October 2026

RSS feed: National Archives Mental Health Act cases National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • PPT v Independent Television News Limited & Anor 3 November 2026
  • The London Borough of Bromley v The Public Guardian 30 October 2026
  • ZZ (Deprivation of Liberty in the Public Interest) (No 2) 29 October 2026
  • MO v THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT 28 October 2026
  • ZEDRA TRUST COMPANY (UK) LIMITED v GRAHAM DAVID TUSTAIN 9 October 2026
  • REX v CHERYL McEWAN 29 September 2026
  • YZ v THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT 24 September 2026
  • Fiona Hodge & Ors v R 16 September 2026
  • Darren Osment v R 15 September 2026
  • E (A Child) (Special Guardianship Order: Public Law Proceedings), Re 10 September 2026

RSS feed: Mental Health Law Online updates Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Event. LAG: Mental health law update (10 November 2026, online)
  • Event. LAG: Community Care Conference (London, 9 February 2027)
  • MHA. Richard Jones, Mental Health Act Manual (29th edn, Sweet and Maxwell 2026)
  • AGNI guidance. DHSC, 'UK Supreme Court 2026 judgment on what constitutes a deprivation of liberty' (updated, 22 September 2026)

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