The Government has now published its long-awaited amendments to the Bill, ahead of the report stage on 21 November. They are available here, although are … Read More ›
Tag: Mental Capacity Amendment Bill
A government memorandum dated 4 July for the JCHR has just been published on issues in relation to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill arising under … Read More ›
[The joint (Commons and Lords) Committee on Human Rights published on 26 October its report on the MCAB. It repays careful reading, but for those … Read More ›
The third and final day of Committee stage before the House of Lords took place yesterday, 22 October. The transcript can be found here. As … Read More ›
The second day of Committee stage before the House of Lords took place yesterday, 15 October. The transcript can be found here. As per my … Read More ›
The annexes have now appeared on the Bill documents page to the letter sent by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 24 July 2018 to peers following second reading … Read More ›
The first day of the Lords Committee stage of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill took place on 5 September. The Hansard transcript can be found … Read More ›
A one-off 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Report just (Monday 3 Sept) published analyses the Bill in detail and provides a range of perspectives ahead … Read More ›
“[The Law Commission] is made up of lawyers, so they prefer law but there are other ways of doing things.” In a perhaps telling phrase, … Read More ›