Patricia Rickard-Clarke has kindly given me permission to reproduce here the article that she wrote for the May edition of… Read more
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act
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May Mental Capacity Law Newsletters now out
Unusually this month – but proving that we do not simply generate material for the sake of it – we… Read more
Book Reviews: vulnerability in principle, law and practice
Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland (Nicola Smith and Nairn R Young, ed Hilary Patrick, Bloomsbury Professional, 2016, paperback/ebook:… Read more
“New” Categories of Abuse: Seminar 20 May
The second of the ESRC funded ‘Safeguarding Adults and Legal Literacy’ (‘SALLY’) seminars with which I am involved investigating the… Read more
Law at the end of life: conference 7 July 2016
Alongside (but very much in second place to!) Sir Mark Hedley, I will be speaking at the Second Annual Medio-Legal… Read more
Litigation friend or foe?
In NHS Trusts v C [2016] EWCOP 17, C was detained under s.2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 with… Read more
April Mental Capacity Law Newsletter now out
April’s offerings are now available here. Highlights include: 1. In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: Charles J… Read more
Sex and the simple test?
In the London Borough of Southwark v KA & Ors [2016] EWHC 661 (Fam), Parker J had to grapple –… Read more
Inaugural UK Mental Disability Law Conference 2016 – call for papers and registration now open
Mental disability law (including both mental health law and mental capacity law) in the UK has come into its own… Read more
CoPPA London seminar 20 April
I am speaking at the Court of Protection Practitioners Association London Sub-Group event on 20 April on News from the Rule… Read more