The case of Wareham v Betsi Cadwaladar University Health Board & Ors [2024] EWCOP 15 concerns a 36 year old… Read more
The very difficult case of Rotherham and Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust v NR & Anor [2024] EWCOP… Read more
Not enough judgments of District Judges are published. This is in part because very many decisions that they make are… Read more
As the Court of Protection judges have been very busy over the past little while looking at different categories of… Read more
Welcome to the March 2024 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of… Read more
March 2024 contains three ten year anniversaries. One is national – indeed international – significance; one is of national significance,… Read more
In light of the publication of the Westminster Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee’s (very good) report on assisted dying… Read more
If you have been found by a criminal court that you did not know what you were doing was wrong… Read more
In Re RM Application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2024] UKSC 7, the provisions of the Mental Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1986 came… Read more
In Aberdeenshire Council v SF (No 2) [2024] EWCOP 10, Poole J took the very unusual step of declining to… Read more