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A revised COP44A Help with fees application, and COP44B guidance notes have been published and are to be used with… Read more

Poole J is rapidly becoming the specialist sexual capacity judge at the Court of Protection.   Following his decisions in Hull… Read more

Re DY [2024] EWCOP 4 is a case showing how demanding taking capacity seriously is  – and should be.  It… Read more

This is a post co-written by Tor Butler-Cole KC and I, prompted by the decision in GUP v EUP and… Read more

In a case from December 2023 which arrived on Bailii too late for the February 2024 Mental Capacity Report, Lieven… Read more

The February 2024 issue will be winging its way to subscribers on Monday morning.  For those who can’t wait.  Highlights this… Read more

In this ‘in conversation with’ Professor Gavin Davidson, we discuss the new paper that he has co-authored, entitled Comparing mental health… Read more

This seminar will be chaired by Ms Justice Henke, and look at approaches to the treatment of anorexia, the controversial concept… Read more

In Paul and another v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1, the Supreme Court had to decide whether (and,… Read more

Strasbourg means what it says in relation to the tightening of the criteria for admission and detention in the context… Read more