Re H; A Local Authority v H [2012] EWHC 49 (COP), [2012] MHLO 3

"On 15 December 2011 I made an order declaring H’s incapacity in many respects and making best interests declarations as to her future care. In particular I made an order declaring that H lacked capacity to consent to sexual relations and a consequential order to protect her best interests which was very restrictive and undoubtedly amounts to the deprivation of liberty. In those circumstances I reserved my reasons for making these orders with a view to handing them down without the need for attendance of any party. This I now do." [Summary to follow.]

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Thanks to Alex Ruck Keene (39 Essex Chambers) for providing the judgment.

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Martin Beckford, 'Autistic woman banned from having sex in latest Court of Protection case' (Daily Telegraph, 3/2/12)