Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the limits of wishes and feelings… Read more
March Mental Capacity Report now out
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Second issue of International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law now out
The second issue is now out, edited by Daniel Wang, Ruth Fletcher, Catherine Penny, Richard Ashcroft and I. The articles include:… Read more
New research report: The Participation of P in Welfare Cases in the Court of Protection
A huge – and hugely impressive – report on the participation of P has just been published by Cardiff University’s… Read more
FICM/ICS Guidance on MCA and DoLS in ICU
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine/Intensive Care Society have prepared summary guidance on MCA and DoLS in light of the… Read more
February Mental Capacity Report from 39 Essex Chambers now out
The February 2017 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report is now out. You will note a new look, and also a… Read more
Deprivation of liberty in intensive care – the Court of Appeal decides
The Court of Appeal has this morning (26 January) handed down judgment in R(Ferreira) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner… Read more
Anorexia: handing back control?
In Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v Z [2016] EWCOP 50, Hayden J had to contemplate three options… Read more
New MCA/DOLS online resource for medical professionals
The Medical Protection Society in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council and NHS England has just launched a new Mental Capacity… Read more
Briggs: case analysis
I reproduce here an updated version of the case summary and comment on the case of Briggs v Briggs [2016] EWCOP 53 that… Read more
December Mental Capacity Law Newsletters now out
Highlights this month include: 1.In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: DOLS and objections, the scope of s.21A… Read more