The April 2025 Mental Capacity Report is now out. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: a masterclass … Read More ›
The vexed question of whether and under what circumstances parents can consent to (or otherwise authorise) the confinement of children under 16 came before HHJ … Read More ›
With their customary efficiency, the Parliamentary authorities have printed a new version of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as amended in the … Read More ›
[update 29 March – please now see this page] I have prepared an entirely unofficial version of the Bill with the amendments made during its … Read More ›
I have prepared an entirely unofficial version of the Bill with the amendments to 20 March 2025. It is available here, and also on my … Read More ›
Minor changes were made by way of Government amendments to the MH Bill as it went through the Committee stage in the House of Lords … Read More ›
In this ‘in conversation with,’ I talk to Jess Foulkes, Dr Suzanne Beeke and Dr Anna Volkmer about their paper in the International Journal of … Read More ›
Prompted by a question from a colleague in Chambers who was (understandably) finding it very difficult to track through precisely how the Bill has been … Read More ›
Cobb J is shortly to take his position on the Court of Appeal. The decision in Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council v LS [2025] EWCOP 10 … Read More ›
In this video, I do a walkthrough of Approaches to the mental capacity assessment of people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness in England: A scoping paper by … Read More ›