It is perhaps slightly surprising that Right Care, Right Person should make its first reported appearance in case-law in the context of an extradition challenge, … Read More ›
Tag: Mental health
One of the most difficult areas where the law runs up against practical realities is in relation to addressing the consequences of a mental health … Read More ›
In VI v Moldova [2024] ECHR 251, the European Court of Human Rights considered the placement of a 15 year old orphan with a perceived … Read More ›
In Lukes v Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust & Anor [2024] EWHC 753 (KB) Julian Knowles J had to consider whether … Read More ›
R (Parkin) v His Majesty’s Assistant Coroner for Inner London (East) [2024] EWHC 744 (Admin) is an important, but curious, case about the limits of … Read More ›
In this ‘in conversation’ with Dr Sam Halliday, we consider why the courts in England & Wales take the approach that they do when considering … Read More ›
If you have been found by a criminal court that you did not know what you were doing was wrong when you killed someone, should … Read More ›
Strasbourg means what it says in relation to the tightening of the criteria for admission and detention in the context of mental disorder that has … Read More ›
In this ‘in conversation’ with, I talk to Dr Magda Furgalska about her research into people’s lived experiences of ‘insight’ in the context of (often … Read More ›
The issue facing the Upper Tribunal in SF v Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership [2023] UKUT 205 (AAC) was crisply delineated by UTJ Church thus: … Read More ›