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Recent Posts

  • Assisted dying and Article 2 ECHR – a self-imposed dilemma (and an update on delegated powers)

    16 March 2026
    Assisted dying and the duty to secure life under Article 2 ECHR With grateful thanks to the Socio-Legal Studies Association... …Read More »

  • Personal welfare deputies – Lawson and Mottram strikes back?

    11 March 2026
    Personal welfare deputyship cases are like buses – you wait ages, and then three come along all at once.  After... …Read More »

  • Personal welfare deputies, the Court of Protection and Article 8 ECHR

    7 March 2026
    Re XY [2025] EWCOP 55 (T2)[1] is an important decision about the powers of welfare deputies.  The specific facts of... …Read More »

  • Adult safeguarding, Dame Louise Casey and gaps in the law

    7 March 2026
    Dame Louise Casey, leading an independent commission into adult social care, has recently (3 March) written to the Secretary of... …Read More »

  • Restraint, learning disability and Seni’s Law – in conversation with Beverley Samways

    5 March 2026
    In this ‘in conversation’ with Dr Beverley Samways, we talk about the scoping review she has led on to review... …Read More »

RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • Nottinghamshire County Council v JW & Anor 19 March 2026
  • Emerald Josephine Toogood v HM Senior Coroner for the Area of Somerset 17 March 2026
  • BHO, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care & Anor 10 March 2026
  • Lonan Daniel O'Herlihy v Jennifer Mary Taylor & Anor 9 March 2026
  • Shah Ali v General Medical Council 6 March 2026
  • XY, Re 6 March 2026
  • Purani Swami Dharmanandan Dasji v Daveen Mavji Bhudia & Ors 3 March 2026
  • Lesley Barnor Townsend v Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust 3 March 2026
  • EB, R (on the application of) v Director of Legal Aid Casework 25 February 2026
  • Eesa Mohammed v Adam Ali & Anor 24 February 2026

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Eagle Care Services Limited v Care Quality Commission 12 March 2026
  • BHO, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care & Anor 10 March 2026
  • XY, Re 6 March 2026
  • CGT, R (on the application of) v West Sussex County Council 13 February 2026
  • R v Adam Culverwell 10 February 2026
  • MXV, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for Home Department 10 February 2026
  • DB v Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust & Anor 5 February 2026
  • R v Maria Kwiatkowska 4 February 2026
  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council v The Mother & Ors 2 February 2026
  • MM,R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department 28 January 2026

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Case (Participation of patient). DB v Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust [2026] UKUT 28 (AAC)
  • Case (JR of legal aid refusal). R (EB) v Director of Legal Aid Casework [2026] EWHC 402 (Admin)
  • Case (Nurse sex offender). R v Andrew Culverwell [2026] EWCA Crim 203
  • Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 156, December 2025)
  • Changes to hearing type. Mental Health Tribunal, 'Late applications to change type of hearing (video/face-to-face)' (23 February 2026)
  • Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 158, March 2026)
  • Law Society MHT practice note. Law Society, 'Practice note: Representation before mental health tribunals' (7 October 2025)
  • Tribunal book. Edward Jacobs, Tribunal Practice and Procedure (6th edn, LAG 2024)
  • Victims guidance. Tribunal guidance T118: Victims of violent or sexual offences (February 2026)
  • Case law update. Jonathan Wilson, 'Mental health case law: update' (Legal Action, June 2025)

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