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 ›
Tag: Mental health
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 ›
In Re AB [2016] EWCOP 66 which was decided in December 2016, but which only appeared on Bailii in March 2018 (for reasons which will … Read More ›
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD student to work on the major Wellcome Trust funded Mental Health and Justice project of which I … Read More ›
We are looking as part of the major Wellcome Trust-funded Mental Health and Justice project to recruit eight people with personal experience of mental health … Read More ›