In AC v Patricia Hickey General Solicitor and Ors & AC v Fitzpatrick and Ors [2019] IESC 73, the Irish… Read more
Tag: CRPD
The CRPD Committee and legal capacity – a step forwards?
The CPRD Committee issued its most recent concluding observations in September 2019, on Albania, Australia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greece, India,… Read more
Medical treatment, best interests, and the desire to live
If proof were needed that Bland has politely been consigned to the history books, it can be found in the… Read more
Deprivation of liberty – appropriate places and appropriate treatment
In Rooman v Belgium [2019] ECHR 105, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights undertook an important… Read more
Life-sustaining treatment – what would P have done? And does it make a difference that she is in a ‘pro-life’ nursing home?
In A Clinical Commissioning Group v P (Withdrawal of CANH) [2019] EWCOP 18, MacDonald J gave a detailed judgment to… Read more
Capacity, pre-nuptial agreements and knowledge of your own assets
PBM v TGT & X Local Authority [2019] EWCOP 6 addresses the questions of capacity to marry, enter into a… Read more
Voluntary psychiatric patients, suicide and the duty to protect – Strasbourg pronounces
In Fernandes de Olivera v Portugal [2019] ECHR 106, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, in a… Read more
Cross-border protection and the CRPD
I spent three days last week at a meeting on the cross-border protection of vulnerable adults convened by the European… Read more
Conference: Human Rights and Mental Health, April 1-5, Bochum, Germany
The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at Ruhr University, Bochum are holding an International Spring School on… Read more
Deprivation of liberty, restraint, and the CRPD: the view from the German Federal Constitutional Court
In what is about to be a big week for the Mental Health Act 1983, with the publication of the… Read more