The October 2019 Mental Capacity Report will shortly be with subscribers. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: … Read More ›
In AC v Patricia Hickey General Solicitor and Ors & AC v Fitzpatrick and Ors [2019] IESC 73, the Irish Supreme Court has grappled (inter … Read More ›
The CPRD Committee issued its most recent concluding observations in September 2019, on Albania, Australia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greece, India, Iraq, Kuwait, and Myanmar. For … Read More ›
Responding to the recent flurry of case-law about the use of the inherent jurisdiction in relation to adults, I, together with others on the 39 … Read More ›
As part of the Wellcome-funded Mental Health and Justice Project, a metacognition workstream is looking at the interfaces between mental capacity and cognitive science. One of … Read More ›
In a setback both for rights protection and for fusion enthusiasts, it has been announced that the deprivation of liberty provisions in the Mental Capacity … Read More ›
A practitioner-led nationwide pilot mediation scheme is being run from 1 October 2019, to evaluate the impact of mediation on Court of Protection proceedings. … Read More ›
Every so often you come across a book which provides exactly what its subtitle (if not title) promises. Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science (Jessica … Read More ›
In Re D [2019] UKSC 42, the Supreme Court has held (by a majority) that where a 16 or 17 year old child cannot (or … Read More ›
The long-awaited (since October 2018) judgment of the Supreme Court in Re D is to be handed down at 11:00 am on 26 September 2019; … Read More ›