Book reviews – Mental Capacity Law and Policy

Book Review: Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms

Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms: Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children Post-Great Ormond Street v Gard (edited by Imogen Goold, Jonathan Herring and … Read More ›

Book Review: Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science

Every so often you come across a book which provides exactly what its subtitle (if not title) promises. Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science (Jessica … Read More ›

Book corner: attorneys, carers and coercive mental health treatment

By way of preview for the January Mental Capacity Report, which should be coming out shortly, three reviews of books which have caught my particular … Read More ›

Book Review: “Mental Health Law” (6th edition)

Mental Health Law (6th edition) (Brenda Hale (Baroness Hale of Richmond) with Penelope Gorman, Rachel Barrett and Jessica Jones, Sweet & Maxwell, 2017, paperback, £85.00) … Read More ›

Book Review: “Community Care and the Law” (6th edition)

Community Care Law (6th edition) (Luke Clements, with Karen Ashton, Simon Garlick, Carolyn Goodall, Jean Gould, Edward Mitchell and Alison Pickup, Legal Action Group, 2017, … Read More ›

Book Review: “Independent Advocacy and Spiritual Care”

Independent Advocacy and Spiritual Care: Insights from Service Users, Advocates, Health Care Professionals and Chaplains (Geoff Morgan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, hardback and ebook, c£66.00) This … Read More ›

Book Review: “Lasting Powers of Attorney: A Practical Guide”

Lasting Powers of Attorney: A Practical Guide (Craig Ward, Law Society Publishing, 2016, paperback £59.95) This is the third edition of a work which does … Read More ›

Book Review – “Addressing Vulnerability in Justice Systems”

Addressing Vulnerability in Justice Systems (ed Penny Cooper and Linda Hunting, Wildy, Simmons and Hill, 2016, hardback, £19.95) This very reasonably priced collection of essays from … Read More ›

National Mental Capacity Forum – Chair’s report
August 13, 2020
The fourth annual report by the Chair of the NMCF, Baroness Ilora Finlay, was published on 12 August. Had I …Read More »
Determining capacity with one (judicial) hand tied behind your back
August 10, 2020
In King v The Wright Roofing Company Ltd [2020] EWHC 2129 (QB), a personal injury case, Kerr J had to decide …Read More »
Shedinar – in conversation with Dr Tania Gergel: philosophy, capacity, presumptions and personhood
August 7, 2020
In this ‘in conversation’ with Dr Tania Gergel, we think about what philosophy can bring to thinking about mental capacity, …Read More »
Race, culture and capacity – in conversation with Dr Lade Smith CBE
August 4, 2020
In the latest ‘in conversation with,’ Dr Lade Smith CBE and I discuss the ways in which capacity assessments under …Read More »
So the LPS are delayed until April 2022 – what should I do now?
August 3, 2020
The slides and the recording of my shedinar about this from Friday 31 July 2020 are now available here, looking …Read More »

Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 106, July 2020)
— "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: LPS delayed to April 2022; alcohol dependence and other capacity conundrums; stem cell donation and altruism, and when to come to court in medical treatment cases; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: updated OPG guidance on making LPAs under […]
Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 105, June 2020)
— "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the Court of Appeal presses the reset button in relation to capacity and sexual relations, and three difficult medical treatment decisions; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: the impact of grief on testamentary capacity; (3) In the Practice and […]
Suicide and homicide report. NCISH, 'Annual Report: England, NI, Scotland and Wales' (13/12/19)
— "The 2019 annual report from the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH) provides findings relating to people who died by suicide in 2007-2017 across all UK countries. Additional findings are presented on the number of people convicted of homicide, and those under mental health care."
Case (Article 2 inquests and community patients). Re Lee [2019] MHLO 73 (Coroner)
— The coroner, following the Administrative Court decision that she had failed properly to address the Article 2 operational duty as set out in the Rabone case, in this decision sets out reasons for concluding that (a) the operational duty was not neither engaged nor breached.
Case (Article 2 inquests and community patients). R (Lee) v HM Assistant Coroner for Sunderland [2019] EWHC 3227 (Admin)
— The coroner had decided that Article 2 was not engaged in this case, which involved the death of a community patient who was not subject to the MHA. (1) In relation to the operational duty, the coroner's decision had focussed almost exclusively on the question of responsibility rather than the "threefold factors of assumed […]

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