When can a mental health patient lawfully remain in the community, rather than in hospital, but be deprived of their liberty there? In 2018, the … Read More ›
Tag: deprivation of liberty
How should the courts respond to the shortage of provision for children and young people whose needs are such that they require special limitations on … Read More ›
HMCTS have announced that: To further support digital working within the Court of Protection we are starting to use electronic filing of documents (aka e-filing) … Read More ›
The concept of legal ice is one that I think that I may have borrowed from somewhere (and, if so, if someone can remind me … Read More ›
LB Haringey v Emile [2020] MHLO (CC)[1] is a rare example of a contested determination of damages for deprivation of liberty in the context of DoLS. … Read More ›
In Re AEL [2021] EWCOP 9, SJ Hilder considered very strong objections levelled by a family member to the idea that they were depriving their … Read More ›
In Mazhar v Birmingham Community Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust & Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 1377 , the Court of Appeal almost, but not quite, answered the … Read More ›
In DP v LB Hillingdon [2020] EWCOP 45, Hayden J has clarified what the court is to do on an s.21A application where it has … Read More ›
There have been very few cases concerning the meaning of deprivation of liberty in the context of adults since the immediate flurry of post-Cheshire West … Read More ›
In this shedinar, Dr Camilla Parker and I discuss the complexities of the law relating to deprivation of liberty in this area, and go through … Read More ›