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Sadia Afroz Chowdhury, R (on the application of) v The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) 20 May 2025

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Surrey County Council v BC 11 June 2025
AB (ADRT: Validity and Applicability), Re 10 June 2025
Lioubov Macpherson v Sunderland City Council 22 May 2025
R v Azam 19 May 2025
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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v MC 15 April 2025

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Case (Potentially preventable suicide). Re Pellumb Olaj (Islington Council) [2025] MHLO 13 (PFD)
Legal Aid book review. Charlotte Collier, 'Mapping the maze: Review of Legal Aid Handbook 2024/25' (Law Society Gazette, 26 May 2025)
Legal Aid book. Vicky Ling et al (eds), Legal Aid Handbook 2024/25 (LAG 2025)
MH Bill report. JCHR, 'Legislative Scrutiny: Mental Health Bill' (HC 601/HL Paper 126, 19 May 2025)
Case (Conditions and review of detention). Spivak v Ukraine 21180/15 [2025] ECHR 136
Research briefing on MH Bill. Katherine Garratt, Sonja Stiebahl and Joanna Dawson, 'Research briefing: Mental Health Bill (HL) 2024-25' (House of Commons Library, 14 May 2025)
Patient safety report. Health Services Safety Investigations Body, 'Mental health inpatient settings: Overarching report of investigations directed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care' (13 May 2025)
Case (Advance decision to refuse treatment). Re AB (ADRT: Validity and applicability) [2025] EWCOP 20 (T3)
Case (Treatment and detention). Rooman v Belgium 18052/11 [2019] ECHR 105
Case (Treatment and detention). Rooman v Belgium 18052/11 [2017] ECHR 688

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