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Recent Posts

  • 39 Essex Chambers April 2026 Mental Capacity Reports

    31 March 2026
    The April 2026 Mental Capacity Report.  It takes a different form to normal as our (over) commitments means that we... …Read More »

  • The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – discrimination and distortion

    28 March 2026
    I have set my (excellent) Law at the End of Life students on the Medical Law / Medical Ethics and... …Read More »

  • The COVID-19 inquiry – two key healthcare recommendations

    21 March 2026
    I have not written much about the COVID-19 inquiry on this site.  In part this is because, having been very... …Read More »

  • An ‘intolerable’ deprivation of liberty – and the need for reasons

    21 March 2026
    No one will ever entirely fill the shoes of the late Sir James Munby, one of whose defining characteristics was... …Read More »

  • Capacity as a social construct, and the problem of untangling the spider’s web

    21 March 2026
    Many, including, me, who read the judgment of Poole J in SW v Nottingham City Council & Anor [2025] EWCOP 53... …Read More »

RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • AL v Secretary of State for the Home Department 31 March 2026
  • Itoweh Susan Ugolor & Ors v Cameron Eseh Ugolor & Anor 27 March 2026
  • Nottinghamshire County Council v JW & Anor 19 March 2026
  • Fay Chang Rhule v Angella Smith and another (Jamaica) 17 March 2026
  • Emerald Josephine Toogood v HM Senior Coroner for the Area of Somerset 17 March 2026
  • R v Michael Ives & Anor 12 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

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Mohammed Ali v Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust 31 March 2026
  • Nicole Thomas v R 25 March 2026
  • BA (A Child) (DOLS In Hospital), Re 20 March 2026
  • 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
  • Shropshire Council v Mother & Ors 17 February 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

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Job advert. HAB Law, Watford - Court of Protection lawyer (listed until 26 June 2026).
  • Race and detention. Fiona Hamilton, 'Is psychiatry's focus on race stats linked to Nottingham attacks?' (The Times, 19 March 2026)
  • COPUG minutes. COP User Group, 'Meeting (P and A): Minutes and action points' (21 January 2026)
  • Event. Court of Protection User Group: General meeting (online, 15 April 2026)
  • 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)

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