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Recent Posts

  • Wishing won’t make it so – urban myths around s.4B MCA 2005

    23 September 2025
    I was contacted, again, by a health care professional who had been told with complete confidence that the new version... …Read More »

  • Anticipating the reasonableness of responses – time-specific capacity in action

    23 September 2025
    Darlington Borough Council v AW & Ors [2025] EWCOP 33 (T3), decided in August 2025, but only published more recently,... …Read More »

  • The Court of Protection: a Welsh language primer in key caselaw

    23 September 2025
    TIRE v Carmarthenshire County Council [2024] EWCOP 81 (T2) is, as far as I know (but we would welcome correction)... …Read More »

  • Disabled Children’s Social Care – a walkthrough of the recommendations

    22 September 2025
    The Law Commission’s Disabled Children’s Social Care project – on which I was a consultant – published its final report... …Read More »

  • Court of Protection Handbook 5th edition – and updated website

    19 September 2025
    The new (2025, 5th) edition of the Court of Protection Handbook is now available, and accompanying website has been updated... …Read More »

RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • Darlington Borough Council v AW & Ors 22 September 2025
  • Lioubov Macpherson v Sunderland City Council 9 September 2025
  • BRO, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department 26 August 2025
  • W, Re: Capacity to Engage in Sexual Relations & Marry 26 August 2025
  • The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v YD & Others (Refusal of Withdrawal of Treatment) 12 August 2025
  • London Borough of X v Mrs Z & Anor 31 July 2025
  • TLA v Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust 29 July 2025
  • G, Re (A Child) 28 July 2025
  • St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v MN 28 July 2025
  • DP v The London Borough of Lambeth 25 July 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Darlington Borough Council v AW & Ors 22 September 2025
  • West Berkshire Council v Mother & Ors 16 September 2025
  • Arion Kurtaj v R 11 September 2025
  • ER v NT (Need for fact finding hearing) 27 August 2025
  • BRO, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department 26 August 2025
  • Noel Anthony Clarke v Guardian News and Media Limited 22 August 2025
  • Fatheya Ali, R (on the application of) v HM Assistant Coroner for Inner North London 12 August 2025
  • Colin Anditon, R (on the application of) v Parole Board for England and Wales 8 August 2025
  • SA v The Secretary of State for the Home Department 1 August 2025
  • Patricia's Father & Ors v Patricia (by her litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) & Ors 31 July 2025

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Event. MHLA: 26th Annual Conference (London, 14 November 2025)
  • Case (Financial complaint). Norfolk County Council (24 008 908) [2025] MHLO 16 (LGSCO)
  • Case (Sex and marriage). Re W (Capacity to engage in sexual relations and marry) [2025] EWCOP 32 (T2)
  • Case (Contempt appeal). Macpherson v Sunderland City Council [2025] EWCA Civ 1159
  • Case (Capacity and contempt). Macpherson v Sunderland City Council [2025] EWCOP 18 (T3)
  • Event. MHLA: Panel course (online, 3-4 November 2025)
  • Job advert. Campbell Law Solicitors, Milton Keynes - COP/mental capacity lawyer (deadline 17 November 2025).
  • Case (Committal proceedings). Torbay Council v Bench [2023] EWCOP 75 (T2)
  • COPUG minutes. COP User Group, 'Meeting (P and A): Minutes and action points' (9 July 2025)
  • Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 153, September 2005)

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