The 39 Essex Chambers Guide to carrying out and recording capacity assessments has been updated, in particular to add a… Read more
39 Essex Chambers Capacity Guide updated
Category: Miscellaneous
Capacity and suicide
[Warning: this post contains a legal analysis of the question whether a person can be said to have capacity to… Read more
Organ donation in England – deemed consent and mental capacity
A reminder that the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 comes fully into force in England today, 20 May. The… Read more
Deprivation of liberty – getting it right shedinar
I have had some thoughts about how to get deprivation of liberty right – how to identify one, and what… Read more
Advance care planning – the conversation (part 1)
The palliative care consultant Dr Mark Taubert and I have recorded a two-part conversation about the interaction between law and… Read more
Court of Protection Handbook Quarterly Update – May 2020
The quarterly update to the Court of Protection Handbook (1 May 2020) is now online, available here. It builds on… Read more
Best interests – getting it right ‘webinar’
Following on from my video about capacity, I now turn to best interests. The slides are here. Boring but necessary… Read more
Capacity in the time of Coronavirus – article
An article written by me, “Capacity in the time of Coronavirus,” is now available in the International Journal of Law… Read more
DNACPR and Advance Care Planning – getting it right
I have recorded a short video (with slides) about DNAPCR and advance care planning, in the hopes that it will… Read more
Mitigating the risk of assumptions and biases in assessments of mental capacity: briefing document
A very useful briefing document by Sophie Stammers and Lisa Bortolotti from the University of Birmingham has been published on… Read more