Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust v HJ [2023] EWFC 92 concerned the question of whether specific authorisation is required to administer physical health treatment … Read More ›
Tag: deprivation of liberty
[In an extremely helpful, but depressing, report published on 22 June 2023, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory analysed applications received during the first two months … Read More ›
[The Joint Committee on Human Rights wrote on 28 May 2023 to the Minister of State for Social Care to express its view that the … Read More ›
It is exceptionally unusual for a judge, let alone a very senior judge, actively to invite a claim to be brought against the State for … Read More ›
Is depriving a person of their mobile phone depriving them of their liberty? That was the very 21st century question confronting MacDonald J in Manchester … Read More ›
In DY v A City Council & Anor [2022] EWCOP 51, Judd J has tackled head on the perennially difficult question of whether and how … Read More ›
Dr Lucy Series has recently written a book, entitled Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution (Bristol University Press, 2022) about the long history … Read More ›
Judging by my inbox (which I know I shouldn’t be checking on sabbatical), a considerable amount of confusion has been caused by the announcement that … Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›