In this conversation, I talk to Dr Chloe Beale about the uses and misuses of capacity in the context of responding to suicide risk. Warning, … Read More ›
Tag: Mental health
In this conversation, I talk to Dr Thomas Kabir about his work with the McPin Foundation, and co-chair of the Service User Advisory Group for … Read More ›
What (if any) threshold needs to be satisfied before the Court of Protection can exercise its (relatively) newly discovered ‘contingency’ jurisdiction? This important question was … Read More ›
The concept of legal ice is one that I think that I may have borrowed from somewhere (and, if so, if someone can remind me … Read More ›
This is an updated version of the post first published on 26 January 2021. I need to emphasise that what is set out below is … Read More ›
Further to the judgment in Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v H [2020] EWCOP 5, discussed here, it has become clear that the … Read More ›
The independent review of mental health law in Scotland under the chair of John Scott QC has launched its website, and also a consultation, running … Read More ›
In Fernandes de Olivera v Portugal [2019] ECHR 106, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, in a majority decision, has identified the … Read More ›
In Welsh Ministers v PJ [2018] UKSC 66, the Supreme Court has reversed the curious and controversial decision in PJ, in which the Court of … Read More ›
The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at Ruhr University, Bochum are holding an International Spring School on Human Rights and Mental Health, … Read More ›