39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 137B, March 2024)
Mental capacity law newsletter "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: sexual and contraceptive complexities and an important light shed on DoLS from Northern Ireland; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: the obligations on the LPA certificate provider, telling P their damages award, and dispensing with notification in statutory will cases; (3) In the Practice and Procedure Report: when it is necessary to go to court in serious medical treatment cases, and a Scottish cross-border problem; (4) In the (new) Mental Health Matters Report: medical evidence, mental disorder and deprivation of liberty, and the approach to propensity evidence; (5) In the Wider Context Report: when not to try CPR, developments in the context of assisted dying / assisted suicide and with Martha’s Rule, and news from Ireland; (6) In the Scotland Report: a Scottish take on the Cheshire West anniversary and a tribute to Karen Kirk."
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Type: Newsletter🔍
Title: Mental Capacity Report
Author: Ruck Keene, Alex🔍 · Butler-Cole, Victoria🔍 · Allen, Neil🔍 · Kohn, Nicola🔍 · Scott, Katie🔍 · Kelly, Arianna🔍 · Weinberg, Nyasha🔍 · Edwards, Simon🔍 · Ward, Adrian🔍 · Stavert, Jill🔍
Organisation: 39 Essex Chambers🔍
Date: March 2024🔍
Issue: 137B
What links here:
- Aberdeenshire Council v SF (No 2) [2024] EWCOP 10
- Re VS (deceased) [2024] EWCOP 6
- GUP v EUP [2024] EWCOP 3
- Sunderland City Council v MacPherson [2024] EWCOP 8
- Re CLF (Capacity: Sexual Relations and Contraception) [2024] EWCOP 11
- Re CP [2024] EWCOP 7
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust v Moon [2024] EAT 4