The Government has now published its long-awaited amendments to the Bill, ahead of the report stage on 21 November. They… Read more
Tag: Mental Capacity Amendment Bill
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill – Government memorandum on human rights issues
A government memorandum dated 4 July for the JCHR has just been published on issues in relation to the Mental… Read more
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill – the Joint Committee on Human Rights reports
[The joint (Commons and Lords) Committee on Human Rights published on 26 October its report on the MCAB. It repays… Read more
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill – highlights from final day of Lords Committee stage
The third and final day of Committee stage before the House of Lords took place yesterday, 22 October. The transcript… Read more
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill – highlights from day 2 of Lords Committee stage
The second day of Committee stage before the House of Lords took place yesterday, 15 October. The transcript can be… Read more
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill – more Government documents
The annexes have now appeared on the Bill documents page to the letter sent by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 24 July… Read more
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill – highlights of first day of Committee stage
The first day of the Lords Committee stage of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill took place on 5 September. The… Read more
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill special report
A one-off 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report just (Monday 3 Sept) published analyses the Bill in detail and provides… Read more
What is the place of law? News from the second reading of the Mental Capacity Amendment Bill
“[The Law Commission] is made up of lawyers, so they prefer law but there are other ways of doing things.”… Read more