The Essex Autonomy Project Summer School will now be going ahead online. Participation is now free, but places are limited,… Read more
Autonomy Summer School – online and free!
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Shedinar: the (dread) MHA/MCA interface
In this (possibly over)ambitious shedinar, updated in August 2023, I take on the interface between the Mental Health Act 1983… Read more
Parole Board hearings, participation and impaired decision-making capacity
In R(EG) v Parole Board & Ors [2020] EWHC 1457 (Admin), May J considered the requirements for effective participation in… Read more
Advance decisions and disability rights – in conversation with Gill Loomes-Quinn
The next shedinar is here (and, coincidentally, with very good timing in light of the decision in the case of Barnsley… Read more
Advance decisions to refuse treatment – getting it right
In light both of the increased focus on advance care planning and the recent case reinforcing the importance of compliance… Read more
‘True’ best interests, advance decisions and the subjective approach
In Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v MSP [2020] EWCOP 26, Hayden J considered an application, initially made to him… Read more
Law and ethics – in conversation with Julian Sheather
In this shedinar, I talk to Julian Sheather, special adviser in ethics and human rights to the British Medical Association. … Read more
CPBA Webinar on MCA decision-making: slides now available
The slides from the Court of Protection Bar Association Webinar on “MCA decision making in the time of COVID-19 for… Read more
Capacity, complexity and time – a discussion with Gareth Owen
The latest ‘in conversation from the shed’ is with the psychiatrist, Dr Gareth Owen, in which we discuss what makes… Read more
Capacity and suicide
[Warning: this post contains a legal analysis of the question whether a person can be said to have capacity to… Read more