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Refusing food in prison – in conversation with Donna Phillips

Posted on 22 May 2023 Updated on 22 May 2023

In this ‘in conversation with’, I talk to Donna Phillips, Head of Safeguarding at Spectrum Community Health CIC, about the… Read more

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Islam, capacity and best interests – in conversation with Siddiq Diwan

Posted on 3 May 2023 Updated on 3 May 2023

In this ‘in conversation with,’ I talk to Siddiq Diwan, Imam and Lead Muslim Chaplain at the Manchester University Hospital… Read more

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Supported decision-making – the principles and the point: in conversation with Shih-Ning Then

Posted on 27 March 2023

In this ‘in conversation with,’ I talk to Professor Shih-Ning Then about supported decision-making, exploring the meaning of the term,… Read more

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Capacity and organ donation – the complexities and the potential for discrimination: in conversation with Bonnie Venter

Posted on 23 March 2023

In this ‘in conversation with,’ I talk to Bonnie Venter about her work investigating the complexities of living organ donation… Read more

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Supporting decision-making and reducing coercion in mental health care – in conversation with Dr Piers Gooding

Posted on 2 March 2023 Updated on 23 March 2023

In this ‘in conversation with’ across time zones, I talk to Dr Piers Gooding about his work in relation to… Read more

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Alcohol Related Brain Damage and capacity – in conversation with Ken Wilson and Julia Lewis

Posted on 20 February 2023

In this ‘in conversation’ with, I learn from (retired) Professor Ken Wilson and Dr Julia Lewis about Alcohol Related Brain… Read more

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Advance directives across Asia – in conversation with Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn

Posted on 9 February 2023

In this ‘in conversation’ with, I learn about the background to the new book co-edited by Daisy Cheung and Michael… Read more

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February 2023 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report and walkthrough

Posted on 2 February 2023

The February 2023 Mental Capacity Report is now out.  Highlights this month include:  (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation… Read more

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A long-term perspective in capacity: in conversation with Dr Janet Weston

Posted on 31 January 2023

In the most recent (slightly snuffly) in conversation, I talk to Dr Janet Weston about her fascinating book Looking after Miss… Read more

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Interdisciplinarity, capacity paradigms and new challenges for capacity – in conversation with Dr Gareth Owen

Posted on 17 January 2023 Updated on 17 January 2023

In a slightly different ‘in conversation with,’ in that the tables are turned half-way though and I’m on the spot,… Read more

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Recent Posts

  • Capacity, the ‘support principle’ and assisted dying – the case of learning disability

    10 September 2026
    One of the consequences of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill cross-referring directly to the Mental Capacity Act... …Read More »
  • Case management and the Court of Protection – a wild idea [guest post)

    10 September 2026
    [This is a guest post by Victoria Butler-Cole KC, a colleague of mine at 39 Essex Chambers, co-founder of the... …Read More »
  • Suicide prevention and assisted dying – managing the tension

    9 September 2026
    Suicide prevention is understood as a multi-agency public health endeavour aimed at reducing suicide deaths through a combination of individual... …Read More »
  • Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill updated briefings from the Complex Life and Death Decisions Group

    7 September 2026
    The second reading of Lauren Edwards’ Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is on Friday 11 September.  Together with my Complex... …Read More »
  • AGNI – the most comprehensive first instance ‘run’ at it so far

    4 September 2026
    Just too late for the September 2026 Mental Capacity Report, HHJ Burrows has handed down the most comprehensive first instance... …Read More »

RSS feed: National Archives Mental Capacity cases National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • Various Applications in respect of ‘Direct Payments’, Re 10 September 2026
  • KDS v EUI Limited 9 September 2026
  • AR (Whether restrictions amount to a deprivation of liberty), Re 4 September 2026
  • Julie Marie Croll v The Estate of Margaret Mary Thorpe & Ors 28 August 2026
  • NHS North East London ICB v FHR & Ors 26 August 2026
  • Lindsay Bisiker v Judith Ann Bisiker & Ors 24 August 2026
  • Argyll and Bute Council v RF (No 2) (Registration under Sch 3 MCA 2005) 19 August 2026
  • Angela Ritchie v The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust 18 August 2026
  • CW v Hartlepool Borough Council & Anor 14 August 2026
  • Mustafa (a child), Re 12 August 2026

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

  • E (A Child) (Special Guardianship Order: Public Law Proceedings), Re 10 September 2026
  • DOL, R (on the application of) v Southampton City Council 28 August 2026
  • R v Ellis Coulson 21 August 2026
  • T (A Child: Traumatic Injuries), Re 18 August 2026
  • Yaa Foriwaa Appiah & Anor v Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 12 August 2026
  • Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust v CG (by their litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) & Anor 7 August 2026
  • Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council v AD 5 August 2026
  • Nottinghamshire County Council v LM & Anor 4 August 2026
  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v HH 4 August 2026
  • King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v RKG & Anor 23 July 2026

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

  • Welsh Measure Code. Welsh Government, 'Code of Practice to Parts 2 and 3 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010' (2012)
  • English/Welsh differences. Law Society, 'Practice note: Differences in English and Welsh law' (10 September 2026)
  • Case (Aftercare complaint). London Borough of Islington (LGSCO, 25 019 236)
  • Case (Delay to discharge). Lancashire County Council (LGSCO, 24 022 487)
  • Case (Service charge wrongly charged under s117). London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LGSCO, 25 027 355)
  • COP/inherent jurisdiction book. Oliver Lewis, Coercive Control and Vulnerable Adults (Bloomsbury 2026)
  • Event. PELT: Introduction to using COP including s21A appeals and AGNI (online, 2 December 2026)
  • Event. PELT: MCA, new definition of DOL and implications of AGNI (online, 25 November 2026)
  • Event. PELT: Introduction to MHA and Code, including DOL/AGNI (online, 18 November 2026)
  • Event. PELT: Law Society approved 2 day MHT Course (online, 8-9 October 2026)

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