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Book Reviews

Book review: Family Experience of Brain Injury: Surviving, Coping and Adjusting

Family Experience of Brain Injury: Surviving, Coping and Adjusting (Jo Clark-Wilson and Mark Holloway, Routledge, 2019, paperback, ebook, c£19.99) This book packs worlds within its … Read More ›

Posted on January 22, 2020
Book Reviews

Book review: Mental Health Homicide and Society: Understanding Health Care Governance

Book review: Mental Health Homicide and Society: Understanding Health Care Governance (David P Horton, Hart Publishing, 2019, hardback and ebook, c£70) This book, based, it … Read More ›

Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020
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Book Review: “Ethical Judgments – Re-Writing Medical Law”

Ethical Judgments: Re-Writing Medical Law (ed. Stephen W Smith, John Coggon, Clark Hobson, Richard Huxtable, Sheelagh McGuinness, José Miola and Mary Neal, Bloomsbury, 2017, paperback … Read More ›

Posted on May 1, 2017May 2, 2017
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Book Review: “The Modern Judge: Power, Responsibility and Society’s Expectations”

The Modern Judge: Power, Responsibility and Society’s Expectations (Sir Mark Hedley, Jordan Publishing, 2016, paperback, book and ePDF £20.00) In The Modern Judge: Power, Responsibility … Read More ›

Posted on December 18, 2016December 18, 2020
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Book Review: “Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law”

Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law (Edited by Christopher Johnston QC, Bloomsbury, 2016, paperback and ebook, £110) The third edition of this textbook has just … Read More ›

Posted on November 26, 2016November 28, 2016
Book Reviews

Book Reviews: vulnerability in principle, law and practice

Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland (Nicola Smith and Nairn R Young, ed Hilary Patrick, Bloomsbury Professional, 2016, paperback/ebook: c£44), and Vulnerable Adults and … Read More ›

Posted on May 8, 2016
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Book Reviews: Social Work with Adults; Disabled Children: A Legal Handbook (2nd edition); and Community Care Law and Local Authority Handbook (3rd edition)

    Social Work with Adults: Jim Rogers, Lucy Bright and Helen Davies (SAGE, 2015, paperback/Kindle, £20.99) It is a sign of how far we … Read More ›

Posted on January 9, 2016
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Book reviews: Care Act Manual (2nd edition) and Deprivation of Liberty: A Handbook

I have finally managed to find the time to review two books that have been provided to me: Care Act Manual: 2nd edition: Tim Spencer-Lane … Read More ›

Posted on December 2, 2015
Book Reviews

Book Review – Mental Health Tribunal Handbook

Mental Health Tribunal Handbook: Sarah Johnston, Sophy Miles and Dr Claire Royston (Legal Action Group, 2015: £48) This new work from LAG aims to enable … Read More ›

Posted on July 21, 2015
Book Reviews

Book Review: Medical Treatment and the Law: Issues of Consent (2nd Edition)

Medical Treatment and the Law: Issues of Consent (2nd Edition): Richard Harper (Jordans, 2014, £54) This book, subtitled “The Protection of the Vulnerable: Children and Adults … Read More ›

Posted on October 26, 2014

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    February 26, 2021
    We have updated our vaccination guidance note to take account, amongst other things, of the two cases now decided by …Read More »
  • When would continuing life-sustaining treatment be unethical? Another agonising dilemma before the Court of Protection

    February 26, 2021
    In Re NZ [2021] EWCOP 16, Hayden J had to address, in even more acute form, the dilemma that he …Read More »
  • A right to family life does not mean an obligation to endure one

    February 24, 2021
    In ZK (Landau-Kleffner Syndrome: Best Interests) [2021] EWCOP 12 the court considered the residence and contact arrangements for a 37 …Read More »
  • How long can you wait to allow the family to gather around the bedside? The agonisingly fine line between best interests and clinical appropriateness

    February 24, 2021
    In Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust v TW & Anor [2021] EWCOP 13, Hayden J considered a version …Read More »
  • Capacity and sex – the Court of Protection grapples with the move from ‘consent to’ to ‘engaging in’ sexual relations

    February 24, 2021
    In HD (Capacity to Engage in Sexual Relations) [2021] EWCOP 15, Cobb J has grappled with the impact of the …Read More »

RSS Bailii capacity cases

  • NZ, Re (Mental Capacity Act 2005) [2021] EWCOP 16 (23 February 2021) February 25, 2021
  • Xhelilaj, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 408 (Admin) (24 February 2021) February 24, 2021
  • HD (Capacity to Engage in Sexual Relations) [2021] EWCOP 15 (16 February 2021) February 23, 2021
  • KAS v The Minister for Justice and Equality (Approved) [2021] IEHC 100 (09 February 2021) February 22, 2021
  • SD v Royal Borough of Kensington And Chelsea [2021] EWCOP 14 (10 February 2021) February 19, 2021

RSS Bailii CRPD cases

  • C. O'C v An Bord Pleanala (Approved) [2021] IEHC 70 (10 February 2021)0
    From High Court of Ireland Decisions
  • KOROVINY v. RUSSIA - 31974/11 - Chamber Judgment [2014] ECHR 217 (27 February 2014)0
    From European Court of Human Rights
  • M.H. v. THE UNITED KINGDOM - 11577/06 - Chamber Judgment [2013] ECHR 1008 (22 October 2013)0
    From European Court of Human Rights
  • Sexual Offences and Capacity to Consent (LRC 109-2013) [2013] IELRC 109 (November 2013)0
    From Irish Law Reform Commission Papers and Reports
  • Stuart Bracking & Ors v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWCA Civ 1345 (06 November 2013)0
    From England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Decisions
  • X.Y. a minor suing by her guardian ad litem Raymond McEvoy v HSE [2013] IEHC 490 (07 November 2013)0
    From High Court of Ireland Decisions
  • AM (By His Father CM) v The Secretary of State for Work And Pensions [2014] EWCA Civ 286 (05 February 2014)0
    From England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Decisions
  • SEMIKHVOSTOV v. RUSSIA - 2689/12 - Chamber Judgment [2014] ECHR 118 (06 February 2014)0
    From European Court of Human Rights
  • Z (Judgment of the Court) [2014] EUECJ C-363/12 (18 March 2014)0
    From Court of Justice of the European Communities (including Court of First Instance Decisions)
  • Z v A Government Department and the Board of Management of a Community School [2013] EUECJ C-363/12 (26 September 2013)0
    From Court of Justice of the European Communities (including Court of First Instance Decisions)

RSS MHLO updates

  • Case (Death). University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust v NZ [2021] EWCOP 16
    — NZ was receiving life-sustaining treatment by way of an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine (ECMO), a last-resort treatment which had increased by a third during the coronavirus pandemic. The clinical lead consultant for ECMO stated that rather than seeking to preserve her life he was now "prolonging her death", and signalled to the judge that […]
  • Licence conditions. NOMS, 'Licence conditions, licences, and licence and supervision notices' (PSI 12/2015, updated 18/1/21)
    — "This Instruction updates the arrangements for the application of standard and additional licence conditions for offenders being released on licence following the creation of the National Probation Service and the Community Rehabilitation Companies. It also updates advice on the setting of conditions as well as updating the menu of additional conditions available, and adds […]
  • Case (Timing of CTO discharge). R (Gisagara) v Upper Tribunal [2021] EWHC 300 (Admin) [2021] EWHC 300 (Admin)
    — The RC's evidence to the MHT was that the CTO criteria were met, and that a CTO was an "essential precondition" to discharge as otherwise the patient would not accept medication; she had granted s17 leave while the CTO was being arranged. When the MHT did not discharge him from s3, the patient argued […]
  • Case (Death following stroke). Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust v TW [2021] EWCOP 13
    — (1) TW suffered catastrophic brain injury, arising from a stroke, which meant he lacked the capacity to decide whether to continue to receive life-sustaining treatment. (2) The continuation of ventilatory support and likely invasive treatment could no longer be reconciled with his best interests. (3) His three daughters wished to travel from Canada to […]
  • Mental health law journal. IJMHCL volume 26 (2020), pages 1-57
    — This edition of the International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law contains: (1) Editorial (Alex Ruck Keene); (2) Substituted Decision Making and Coercion: The Socially Accepted Problem in Psychiatric Practice and a CRPD-Based Response to Them (Giles Newton-Howes, Leah Kininmonth, Sarah Gordon); (3) Adult Incapacity Law: Visions for the Future Drawn from the […]

RSS Baillii Mental Health Act cases

  • Mohammed v R. [2021] EWCA Crim 201 (23 February 2021)0
    From England and Wales Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Decisions
  • Miller v Director of Public Prosecutions [2018] EWHC 262 (Admin) (15 February 2018)0
    From England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court) Decisions
  • HU099822015 [2017] UKAITUR HU099822015 (21 December 2017)0
    From United Kingdom Immigration and Asylum (AIT/IAC) Unreported Judgments
  • PA080602016 & Ors. [2018] UKAITUR PA080602016 (18 January 2018)0
    From United Kingdom Immigration and Asylum (AIT/IAC) Unreported Judgments
  • A & B, PETITION OF AGAINST NHS GREATER GLASGOW & CLYDE HEALTH BOARD [2018] ScotCS CSOH_4 (26 January 2018)0
    From Scottish Court of Session Decisions
  • AB v HT & Ors [2018] EWCOP 2 (26 January 2018)0
    From England and Wales Court of Protection Decisions
  • Mitocariu & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v Central And North West London NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWHC 126 (Admin) (31 January 2018)0
    From England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court) Decisions
  • VC, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Rev 1) [2018] EWCA Civ 57 (02 February 2018)0
    From England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Decisions
  • ZA, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWHC 183 (Admin) (06 February 2018)0
    From England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court) Decisions
  • CP v North East Lincolnshire Council [2018] EWHC 220 (Admin) (09 February 2018)0
    From England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court) Decisions

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