My Kings and Chambers colleagues, respectively Professor Genevra Richardson, Dr Jill Craigie and Tor Butler-Cole are giving what promises to be fascinating seminar at the Royal College of … Read More ›
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I am very pleased to be able to share the news that funding has been secured for a project (led by the Essex Autonomy Project) … Read More ›
From NZ, where I’m just finishing up teaching a fascinating (to me!) course on vulnerable adults rights protection at Auckland University, news of a project … Read More ›
I gave evidence with Caroline Bielanska, Phil Fennell, Julian Hughes, Wayne Martin and George Szmukler to the Ad Hoc Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly … Read More ›
The Court of Appeal in Singapore in Re BKR [2015] SGCA 26 has handed down a decision that exemplifies the importance and utility of a … Read More ›
With thanks, as ever, to the eagle-eyed Lucy Series for bringing this to my attention, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has … Read More ›
[I am very grateful to George Szmukler, Professor of Psychiatry and Society at the Institute of Psychiatry, KCL, for this detailed comment responding to Lucy … Read More ›
LB Haringey v CM [2014] EWCOP B23 Summary This case concerns an objection by a family member to the appointment of a local authority as property … Read More ›
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has now adopted its General Comment on Article 12 (Equal Recognition before the Law). I will … Read More ›
The Council of Europe has very recently (19 February) adopted the first European instrument on the human Rights of older persons, in the form of … Read More ›