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Bailii COP cases

• Macpherson v Sunderland City Council [2025] EWCOP 18 (T3) (22 May 2025)
• University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v PK & Anor [2025] EWCOP 17 (T3) (14 May 2025)
• Argyll and Bute Council v RF [2025] EWCOP 12 (T3) (15 April 2025)
• Norfolk County Council v CA & Ors [2025] EWCOP 16 (T3) (11 April 2025)
• Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council v LS & Anor [2025] EWCOP 10 (T3) (13 March 2025)

Bailii UKUT cases

• AM v Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust & Anor [2024] UKUT 438 (AAC) (23 December 2024)
• OO v Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust & Anor (Mental health) [2024] UKUT 190 (AAC) (28 June 2024)
• SS v Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Mental Health) (Transport - Traffic Commissioner and DoE (NI) Appeals - Repute & Fitness, Transport - Traffic Commissioner and DoE (NI) Appeals -...
• ML v Priory Group Ltd & Anor (Mental Health) [2023] UKUT 237 (AAC) (20 September 2023)
• SF v Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and RB (Mental health) (Rev1) [2023] UKUT 205 (AAC) (15 August 2023)

MC Law & Policy

• Advance choices across jurisdictions – mental health and physical health
• Law Commission Modernising Wills Law project reports
• An important reminder that it is the judge who has the final say as to best interests
• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – updated positions of key bodies and corrections to impact assessments
• 39 Essex Chambers May 2025 Mental Capacity Report – issue 150!

COP Handbook

• CoP Handbook – a new edition on the way!
• Court of Protection Handbook update
• Article 5 and representation….again
• Court of Protection Handbook update August 2024
• Location and Collection orders in the Court of Protection

MHLO

• MHLA panel course now hybrid
• T110. Form T110: Application to First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health) (v05.25)
• Case (DOL authorisation complaint). Bath and North East Somerset Council (24 001 607) [2025] MHLO 12 (LGSCO)
• Job advert. Mental health panel member seeking agency work (listed until 5 September 2025).
• Event. MHLA: Panel course (London and online, 24-25 June 2025)

MHLO Forum

• Delay in transfer from prison to hospital
• Libel?
• What happens after an arrested person is sectioned under the MHA?
• Autism without a learning disability
• Role of LPAs in identifying alternative options in s21A proceedings

The Small Places

• Supported decision-making is back on the table! Thanks (again) to the Law Commission
• Five reasons why the Mental Health Bill won’t stop the detention of autistic people and people with learning disabilities
• Fixing human rights protection in health and social care
• You don’t need to demonstrate “mental capacity” to be allowed to vote!
• Liberty tactics: On the rise of ‘deprivation of liberty safeguards’

Masked AMHP

• What’s in the major parties’ Manifestos for mental health?
• An interview with an attempted murderer
• An Interview with a Murderer
• I asked AI to write a comedy stand up routine for the Masked AMHP – and this is what I got
• Hallucinations & the Mental Health Act

Mental Health Cop

• Too Much Mental Health?
• End of Life
• Joint Statement
• Beryl Purdy
• The Second Reading

Open Justice COP Project

• Risk aversion and delay: Losing sight of best interests?
• Unsuccessful Application for Permission to Appeal
• DJ Clarke calls time on public body delay: Internet restrictions, consultation with deputies, and a rejection of judicial “micromanaging”
• Validity and applicability of an Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment: A pre-trial review
• Determining the legal status of a ‘Living Will’: Personal reflections on a case before Poole J