From the perspective of an informed, and very interested, English outsider, I have produced an annotated version of the Member’s… Read more
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NMCF Webinar: managing without the Liberty Protection Safeguards
Registration is open for the next NMCF Webinar, which takes places this Thursday, 11 April, noon-1pm. The focus will be… Read more
39 Essex Chambers April 2024 Mental Capacity Report and walkthrough
The April 2024 Mental Capacity Report is now out. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation… Read more
Amended Court of Protection Practice Directions from 1 April 2024
Amendments to three Practice Directions supplementing the Court of Protection Rules 2017 have been made. In summary the changes are:… Read more
Facilitating mental health advance choice documents: in conversation with Jonathan Simpson
In this ‘in conversation with’ I talk to Jonathan Simpson about a project researching how to turn advance choice documents… Read more
Assisted dying / assisted suicide – concrete British realities
Reading some of the recent media coverage of the issue of assisted dying / assisted suicide, people could be forgiven… Read more
Assisted dying – Canada comes to St Helier?
The Tynwald – the Isle of Man legislature – may well be the first legislature associated with the United Kingdom[1]… Read more
Government response to the Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health Bill published
The Government has today (21 March 2024) published its response to the report of the Joint Committee on the draft… Read more
The tendency of human nature to be swayed by interest rather than duty
In Irwin Mitchell Trust Corporation v PW & Anor [2024] EWCOP 16, Irwin Mitchell Trust Corporation (“IMTC”) had been appointed… Read more
Deprivation of liberty and care providers – how thick is your legal ice?
In a recent report, entitled A Hidden Crisis, Age UK has highlighted the extent of the problems with DoLS, setting… Read more