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Book Review: HHJ Carolyn Hilder, DJ Lisa Clarke, DJ Mark Mullins, Gemma Daly, Simon Heapy, Lee Parkhill and Kriti Upadhyay, Dictionary… Read more

The April 2025 Mental Capacity Report is now out.  Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation… Read more

The vexed question of whether and under what circumstances parents can consent to (or otherwise authorise) the confinement of children… Read more

With their customary efficiency, the Parliamentary authorities have printed a new version of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)… Read more

[update 29 March – please now see this page] I have prepared an entirely unofficial version of the Bill with… Read more

I have prepared an entirely unofficial version of the Bill with the amendments to 20 March 2025.  It is available… Read more

Minor changes were made by way of Government amendments to the MH Bill as it went through the Committee stage… Read more

In this ‘in conversation with,’ I talk to Jess Foulkes, Dr Suzanne Beeke and Dr Anna Volkmer about their paper… Read more

Prompted by a question from a colleague in Chambers who was (understandably) finding it very difficult to track through precisely… Read more

Cobb J is shortly to take his position on the Court of Appeal.  The decision in Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council… Read more