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Recent Posts

  • Deciding deprivation of liberty in an “efficient, and relatively speedy” way

    3 October 2026
    Just as his decision in Re AR (Whether restrictions amount to a deprivation of liberty) [2026] EWCOP 45 (T2) arrived... …Read More »

  • 39 Essex Chambers October Mental Capacity Reports

    2 October 2026
    The October 2026 Mental Capacity Reports are now out.  Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation... …Read More »

  • Capacity, presumptions and doubts – the Court of Appeal clarifies

    15 September 2026
    In TDB v London Borough of Haringey [2026] EWCA Civ 1168, the Court of Appeal has clarified the role that... …Read More »

  • 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 »

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

  • AR & Ors, Re 30 September 2026
  • D & Anor v K (Illegal Chinese Commercial Surrogacy) 29 September 2026
  • Carecall Limited v Karen Giles (VO) 29 September 2026
  • Rosemary Anne Davina Elliott v Vanessa Anne Bateson & Anor 23 September 2026
  • Carter-Ruck Solicitors & Anor v Solicitors Regulation Authority 21 September 2026
  • TDB, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Haringey 15 September 2026
  • 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
  • Derby City Council v SM 3 September 2026

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

  • 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
  • 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

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

  • Case (Open justice). Re I (publication of decision) [2026] MHLO 2 (FTT)
  • Case (Inadequate reasons about statutory criteria). Re I (inadequate reasons) [2025] MHLO 20 (FTT)
  • 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)

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