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Bailii COP cases

• PW (Jehovah's Witness: Validity of Advance Decision), Re [2021] EWCOP 52 (22 September 2021)
• Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v AH & Ors (Serious Medical Treatment) [2021] EWCOP 51 (03 September 2021)
• Kambli v The Public Guardian [2021] EWCOP 53 (27 August 2021)
• Liverpool City Council v CMW [2021] EWCOP 50 (15 July 2021)
• A Local Authority v SE & Ors [2021] EWCOP 44 (01 July 2021)

Bailii UKUT cases

• MC v Cygnet Behavioural Health Ltd and Secretary of State for Justice (Mental health) (Rev 1) [2020] UKUT 230 (AAC) (16 July 2020)
• SM v Livewell Southwest CIC (Mental health) [2020] UKUT 191 (AAC) (12 June 2020)
• AD'A v Cornwall Partnership Trust (Mental health) [2020] UKUT 110 (AAC) (30 March 2020)
• DA v Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Trust (Mental health) [2019] UKUT 348 (AAC) (11 November 2019)
• SLL v (1) Priory Health Care and (2) Secretary of State for Justice (Mental health) [2019] UKUT 323 (AAC) (18 October 2019)

MC Law & Policy

• Advance decisions, Jehovah’s Witnesses and what does “doing something clearly inconsistent” with your ADRT mean?
• Book Review: Mental Health, Legal Capacity and Human Rights (Michael Ashley Stein, Faraaz Mahomed, Vikram Patel and Charlene Sunkel, eds, Cambridge, 2021)
• Gillick competence, puberty-blockers and the Court of Appeal
• September 2021 Mental Capacity Report
• Court fees increase from 30 September 2021

COP Handbook

• Court fees increase from 30 September 2021
• Court of Protection Handbook Quarterly Update – August 2021
• Court of Protection Handbook Quarterly Update – May 2021
• Court fees consultation – including Court of Protection – closing date 17 May 2021
• CoP e-filing for deprivation of liberty cases

MHLO

• Case (Replacement of deputy). Sunil Kambli v Public Guardian [2021] EWCOP 53
• Case (Jehovah's Witness - validity of advance decision). Re PW [2021] EWCOP 52
• Case (Inherent jurisdiction and money). FS v RS and JS [2020] EWFC 63
• Case (Competence/capacity and puberty blockers). Bell v Tavistock And Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWCA Civ 1363
• Case (Inherent jurisdiction and unauthorised placements). Re T (A Child) [2021] UKSC 35

MHLO Forum

• Section 117 MHA Care home top ups and section 117 aftercare
• Where to find statistics on patient admissions and outcomes?
• Third-party information in medical records
• Independent psychiatrist needed for report in Essex area
• Paternalism creeping back in ? Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

The Small Places

• Unintended consequences of taking people with learning disabilities and/or autism out of scope of the Mental Health Act 1983
• Guest post from Maryna Zholud-Py: The test of deprivation of liberty frameworks in the context of Covid-19 outbreak: comparative study of legal proceedings in France and UK
• Guest post by ‘Quiet John’:Some thoughts on the Liberty Protection Safeguards in an acute NHS Trust
• Coronavirus – use of public health powers of detention
• Guest post by Lucy Bonnerjea: Care Homes, Round Two and Mental Capacity

Masked AMHP

• Rosemary’s MHA Assessment from the Channel 4 series Bedlam
• Another inquest for a death in a private mental hospital – why do we even have private hospitals?
• Rectifiable & non rectifiable errors on MHA forms
• The Peggy Copeman Inquest and what it says about Mental Health Services
• When the people you’re trying to help seek to deceive #2: Nigel

Mental Health Cop

• Risk Assessment
• Time
• Government Response
• Hospital or Prison?
• Preventing Future Deaths

Open Justice COP Project

• Home-owning resident of 50 years faces intervention by Council
• Challenge to Lasting Powers of Attorney
• Refusing blood products during pregnancy and labour
• Forced Marriage Convictions: A view from the police
• Coercive and controlling behaviour and undue influence: What is the role of the local authority?