Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor [2025] EWCOP 44 (T3), bluntly, illustrates why those with mental health… Read more
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Brain stem death testing and the courts: procedural fairness, and the definitive diagnosis of death
The issue of brain stem death testing (or, more formally, diagnosing death by neurological criteria) is one that has been… Read more
Suicide prevention and the legalisation of assisted dying / assisted suicide – new position statement from the International Association of Suicide Prevention
The International Association of Suicide Prevention published on 1 December a position statement on assisted suicide and euthanasia. It is… Read more
Mental capacity matters podcast now on Spotify
For those of you who like multi-tasking in the mental capacity and mental health zone, my shedinar series is now… Read more
Capacity and marriage – the changes brought about in Ireland by the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015
In the Matter of AB is an extremely interesting decision from the Circuit Court in Ireland. It concerns the capacity… Read more
Children in complex situations at risk of deprivation of liberty – in conversation with Dr Susannah Bowyer
In this ‘in conversation’ with, I talk to Dr Susannah Bowyer, Deputy Director at Research in Practice, about the recent… Read more
Communicating the communication limb of the capacity test
Re BV (Medical Treatment – Renal Cancer: Nephrectomy) [2025] EWCOP 41 (T3) is a relatively ‘routine’ medical treatment case (without,… Read more
Unofficial update to MCA Codes updated
There are two Codes of Practice to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, one for the main body of the Act,… Read more
Natural justice and costs in the Court of Protection
Riddle v NA [2025] EWCOP 39 (T3) raises questions about the fitness for purpose of a key plank of the… Read more
50 years in mental health and capacity law – in conversation with Peter Edwards
In this ‘in conversation with,’ I talk to Peter Edwards, a solicitor who has just passed his 50 year mark… Read more