In this video, I do a walkthrough of Approaches to the mental capacity assessment of people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness in… Read more
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Book review: The Later Years: The Simple Guide to Organising the Rest of your Life
Book Review: Peter Thornton, The Later Years: The Simple Guide to Organising the Rest of your Life (Bedford Square. 2025,… Read more
39 Essex Chambers March 2025 Mental Capacity Report and walkthrough
The March 2025 Mental Capacity Report is now out, Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of… Read more
Fees changes in the Court of Protection
From 1 April 2025, with amendments to the Court of Protection Fees Order 2007 and the Civil Proceeding Fees Order… Read more
Consultation, (rotten) compromises and challenging complacency – Hayden J on the warpath
NHS South East London Integrated Care Board v JP & Ors [2025] EWCOP 4 T3 and [2025] EWCOP 8 (T3)… Read more
Does the Court of Protection have jurisdiction over children? Answer yes – up to a point (even when they have moved abroad)
In Irwin Mitchell Trust Corporation Ltd v KS & Ors [2025] EWCOP 7 (T2), Senior Judge Hilder had to grapple… Read more
Anorexia, the Court of Protection and the changing calculus of decision-making
When and under what circumstances it is legitimate not to treat those with anorexia is a very contentious topic, and… Read more
Mental health, capacity and children – in discussion with Anne-Maree Farrell and Patrick Hann
In this ‘in discussion with,’ I talk to Professor Anne-Maree Farell and Dr Patrick Hann, two of the co-authors of… Read more
Deprivation of liberty, children, care orders, and overlooked caselaw: a tangle for the Court of Appeal
West Sussex County Council v AB & Anor [2025] EWCA Civ 132, concerned a very challenging situation. It concerned a… Read more
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Questions on the amendments to the High Court approval requirement
Having (several) day jobs, I simply don’t have time to try to ask questions of all the amendments that are… Read more