Cobb J is shortly to take his position on the Court of Appeal. The decision in Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council v LS [2025] EWCOP 10 … Read More ›
Tag: mental capacity
In this video, I do a walkthrough of Approaches to the mental capacity assessment of people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness in England: A scoping paper by … Read More ›
In the context of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, it has become clear that there are some quite odd (urban) myths out … Read More ›
Ahead of more detailed coverage of the nuances of this complicated case in the February 2025 Mental Capacity Report, it is worth highlighting the ‘lessons … Read More ›
The decision of the European Court of Human Rights in ET v Moldova [2024] ECHR 858 is one with ramifications extending significantly beyond Moldova. It … Read More ›
A new (2024) edition of the Equal Treatment Bench Book (ETBB) has been published. As it notes in the preface: Treating people fairly requires awareness and … Read More ›
[A message on behalf of this brilliant[1] project: Use of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 with people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness in England.] Are you … Read More ›
The Civil Justice Council has published a consultation on Procedure for Determining Mental Capacity in Civil Proceedings which is shortly to close, at 17 March 2024 … Read More ›
A Local Authority v KP [2023] EHWC 3210 (Fam) is a case not easily reducible to a short summary. In very broad outline, however, it … Read More ›
The desperately sad case of An NHS Trust v ST & Anor [2023] EWCOP 40 provides an example of how far the courts have come … Read More ›