Jackie Doyle-Price (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health), in a written statement today (30 October) set out the Government’s Interim… Read more
Tag: deprivation of liberty
Rule 3A representatives, family members (and the ‘obiter trap’)
District Judge Bellamy has very recently (20 September) added to the small but important body of case-law concerning Rule 3A… Read more
Deprivation of Liberty: Towards the Liberty Protection Safeguards: Conference 14 July
A reminder of the conference being held a week on Friday in London that I am chairing looking both at… Read more
Final reminder: Deprivation of liberty safeguards – the future
A final reminder that there are a few places still available for the seminar that I am doing in Consett,… Read more
Deaths under DoLS changes – further guidance
A Home Office Circular has now been published to accompany the Policing and Crime Act 2017 changes (including those relating… Read more
New Chief Coroner’s Guidance on DOLS
To accompany the coming into force on 3 April of the change to the definition of “state detention” introduced by… Read more
FICM/ICS Guidance on MCA and DoLS in ICU
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine/Intensive Care Society have prepared summary guidance on MCA and DoLS in light of the… Read more
Deprivation of liberty in intensive care – the Court of Appeal decides
The Court of Appeal has this morning (26 January) handed down judgment in R(Ferreira) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner… Read more
When to bring an s21A application – flowchart
My admirable colleague Tor Butler-Cole has produced this useful chart to summarise in graphic form the effect of Baker J’s… Read more
Objections, DOLS and the Court of Protection
The long-awaited judgment from Baker J following up on AJ is now out: RD & Ors (Duties and Powers of… Read more