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The Ministry of Justice are consulting on a potential mechanism to enable families seeking access to small funds belonging to… Read more

Researchers on the AHRC-funded project, Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law, based at the ICPR, Birkbeck School of… Read more

In Hull City Council v A & Ors [2021] EWCOP 60, Poole J was concerned with – in effect – what… Read more

In North West London Clinical Commissioning Group v GU [2021] EWCOP 59, Hayden J made a series of very powerful… Read more

What (if any) threshold needs to be satisfied before the Court of Protection can exercise its (relatively) newly discovered ‘contingency’… Read more

When can a mental health patient lawfully remain in the community, rather than in hospital, but be deprived of their… Read more

The quarterly online update to the Court of Protection Handbook is now available, covering key practice and procedure updates to… Read more

In The Secretary of State for Justice v A Local Authority & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 1527, the Court of… Read more

The October 2021 Mental Capacity Report is about to hit subscribers‘ inboxes.  Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health,… Read more

How does coercive control impact upon decision-making? And what can – and should – the courts do when the victim… Read more