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The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law (edited by Kay Wilson, Yvette Maker, Piers Gooding and Jamie Walvisch,… Read more

The Law Commission has today (5 October 2023) published Making a Will: A Supplementary Consultation Paper, together with the accompanying… Read more

The October 2023 Mental Capacity Report is now out, and is much shorter than last month’s blockbuster (to everyone’s relief)…. Read more

[I am very pleased to be able to host here a guest post by Richard Charlton and Bharati Gidoomal, two… Read more

The case of Andy Casey sheds light again on the difficult question of diagnosing death by neurological criteria (‘DNC’), and… Read more

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today, 18 September 2023, published the report of the review it was commissioned in… Read more

In an article published in September 2023 in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, my colleague in Chambers, Chiara… Read more

Royal Assent was granted on 18 September 2023 to the Powers of Attorney Bill – now the Powers of Attorney… Read more

In this ‘in conversation’ with, I talk to Dr Magda Furgalska about her research into people’s lived experiences of ‘insight’… Read more

I posted a few weeks ago about new guidance on carrying out proportionate assessments under the Care Act 2014 published… Read more