The JCHR has launched an inquiry into the Right to freedom and safety: Reform of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards…. Read more
Tag: deprivation of liberty
Deprivation of liberty in the hospital setting – new guidance note
My colleagues from the doughty 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report team and I have sought to wrestle with the change of… Read more
Confinement, consent and judicial authorisation for children
In Re A-F (Children) [2018] EWHC 138 (Fam), Sir James Munby P has pronounced upon two key issues in relation… Read more
Deckchairs on the legal Titanic? The Re X saga continues
In Re KT & Ors [2018] EWCOP 1, Charles J has returned – again – to the vexed question of… Read more
Discussion paper: Deprivation of Liberty, Cheshire West and the CRPD:
For those wanting some holiday reading, you may wish to have a look at my discussion paper looking at whether… Read more
‘Teen Bournewood’: Court of Appeal decision now out
The Court of Appeal ([2017] EWCA Civ 1695) has allowed the appeal by Birmingham City Council (‘Birmingham’) against the judgment… Read more
Government’s interim response to Law Commission MCD report now published
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
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