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Guest post by Lorraine Currie: I wouldn’t start from here – A blog about the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

Posted on 24 August 2023 Updated on 24 August 2023

[This is a guest post by Lorraine Currie, a former DoLS Lead and currently an associate with WMADASS with a… Read more

Posted in DoLS     Tags: DOLS, LPS     One comment     


DHSC response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights regarding the LPS delay and its implications

Posted on 22 June 2023

[The Joint Committee on Human Rights wrote on 28 May 2023 to the Minister of State for Social Care to… Read more

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MCA update from the DHSC / MOJ – a Code update is on the cards.

Posted on 20 June 2023 Updated on 20 June 2023

In the most recent DOLS Newsletter published on 20 June 2023, the DoLS and Mental Capacity team at the DHSC… Read more

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Liberty Protection Safeguards: Welsh Government summary of consultation responses

Posted on 15 June 2023 Updated on 15 June 2023

A Welsh Government consultation was held between 17 March 2022 and 14 July 2022 on four sets of draft Regulations… Read more

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LPS delay – Joint Committee on Human Rights questions for Government

Posted on 30 May 2023 Updated on 1 June 2023

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has written (by letter dated 26 May 2023) to the Minister of State for… Read more

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LPS on the shelf – what to do now: video

Posted on 6 April 2023 Updated on 6 April 2023

In light of the announcement on 5 April that a delay in the implementation of the LPS “beyond the life… Read more

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Liberty Protection Safeguards newsflash: implementation delayed “beyond the life of this Parliament”

Posted on 5 April 2023 Updated on 6 April 2023

In a decision which will trouble many (for instance the Joint Committee on Human Rights: see its 2022 report on… Read more

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Human Rights in Care Settings: Joint Committee on Human Rights reports

Posted on 22 July 2022 Updated on 22 July 2022

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has today (22 July) published its report into Human Rights in Care Settings, following… Read more

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Draft LPS forms published by DHSC (for England)

Posted on 8 July 2022 Updated on 12 July 2022

The DHSC has published today (8 July 2022) a set of template forms are designed to be used at key… Read more

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In the Shadows of the Institution – the film

Posted on 23 June 2022

Dr Lucy Series has recently written a book, entitled Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution (Bristol University Press,… Read more

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  • 39 Essex Chambers December 2025 Mental Capacity Report now out – and walkthrough

    9 December 2025
    Welcome to the December 2025 Mental Capacity Report.  Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of... …Read More »
  • Capacity to marry – the English perspective (and is it the last word?)

    7 December 2025
    Hot on the heels of the first Irish case to consider capacity to marry under their new regime, by pure... …Read More »
  • Mental health conditions, cancer investigation and capacity – the challenges of achieving parity

    6 December 2025
    Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor [2025] EWCOP 44 (T3), bluntly, illustrates why those with mental health... …Read More »
  • Brain stem death testing and the courts: procedural fairness, and the definitive diagnosis of death

    4 December 2025
    The issue of brain stem death testing (or, more formally, diagnosing death by neurological criteria) is one that has been... …Read More »
  • Suicide prevention and the legalisation of assisted dying / assisted suicide – new position statement from the International Association of Suicide Prevention

    2 December 2025
    The International Association of Suicide Prevention published on 1 December a position statement on assisted suicide and euthanasia.  It is... …Read More »

RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • Liverpool City Council v VT & Ors 5 December 2025
  • City of London Corporation v John Bussandra 5 December 2025
  • Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor 1 December 2025
  • Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council v EKK 27 November 2025
  • TKSD Care Homes & Training Ltd & Anor v Care Quality Commission 24 November 2025
  • BV (Medical Treatment) (Renal Cancer; Nephrectomy), Re 20 November 2025
  • Alastair James Bowerman v Ian Benjamin Bowerman & Ors 18 November 2025
  • Cole Taylor & Anor v Secretary of State for Justice 17 November 2025
  • Daly v His Majesty’s Advocate (Scotland) 12 November 2025
  • Andrew James Riddle v NA 6 November 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Angus Cameron v Secretary of State for Justice & Anor 4 December 2025
  • Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor 1 December 2025
  • R v Sundeep Singh 28 November 2025
  • TKSD Care Homes & Training Ltd & Anor v Care Quality Commission 24 November 2025
  • BV (Medical Treatment) (Renal Cancer; Nephrectomy), Re 20 November 2025
  • R v Keaton Muldoon 18 November 2025
  • Sahayb Abu v Secretary of State for Justice 18 November 2025
  • R v Gemma Lisa Hindmarch 30 October 2025
  • Adam Clive Scott v The Estate of Richard Norman Scott & Ors 29 October 2025
  • MK v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Anor 29 October 2025

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Case (Change of status - conditional discharge recall). Cameron v SSJ [2025] EWCA Civ 1574
  • MH solicitor. Liverpool Law, 'Spotlight on: Peter Edwards' (November 2025)
  • Event. Court of Protection User Group: Property and affairs meeting (online, 21 January 2026)
  • Case (Procedural unfairness). Re R (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 1504
  • Case (Diagnosing death). Barts Health NHS Trust v MC [2025] EWHC 3140 (Fam)
  • Case (Brain stem testing abroad). A London NHS Trust v DT [2025] EWCOP 36 (T3)
  • Case (Cancer treatment). Powys Teaching Health Board v NT [2025] EWCOP 44 (T3)
  • Case (Treatment during s17 leave). Re RM (Application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)) [2024] UKSC 7
  • Case (Ombudsman complaint and tribunal). Hertfordshire County Council (LGSCO, 23 008 805)
  • Inadequate hospital. CQC, 'CQC rates St Andrews Healthcare Northampton as inadequate' (23 October 2025)

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