May 2024 update
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Website
- Magic Book. The Magic Book is a database of contact details. The main idea is to add the hospitals and other places you visit (not just your own place of work). To create/edit contacts, there is no need to log in and the process is very quick and simple. See Magic Book
- Mental Health Law Online CPD scheme: 12 points for £60. Obtain 12 CPD points online by answering monthly questionnaires. The scheme is an ideal way to obtain your necessary hours, or to evidence your continued competence. It also helps to support the continued development of this website, and your subscriptions (and re-subscriptions) are appreciated. For full details and to subscribe, see CPD scheme.
- Cases. By the end of this month, Mental Health Law Online contained 2345 categorised cases
- Chronology. See May 2024 chronology for this month's changes to the website in date order.
Resources
- Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 140, May 2024) — "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: a rare successful capacity appeal, evicting someone from P's house and holistically approaching hoarding; (2) In the Practice and Procedure Report: when you can remove deputies, and publishing judgments in serious medical treatment and closed material procedure cases; (3) In the Mental Health Matters Report: when not to rely on capacity in the mental health context; (4) In the Wider Context Report: capacity, autonomy and the limits of the obligation to secure life, and the European Court of Human Right raises the stakes for psychiatric admission for those with learning disabilities; (5) In the Scotland Report: licence conditions and deprivation of liberty, and Executor qua attorney - a few steps back?"
Social media
Nothing to report this month.
Other items
- May 2024: Neglect led to man’s death at mental health unit (Ablett mental health unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire - Betsi Cadwaladr health board) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq3jgpxw69o
- May 2024: McLaughlin (Opinion No. 2) v Morrison & Anor [2013] ScotCS CSOH_168 (25 October 2013) [2013] CSOH 168Not on Bailii! https://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/2013/2013CSOH168.html
- May 2024: O v P [2024] EWHC 1077 (Fam)
- May 2024: Re HC [2024] EWCOP 24
- May 2024: Re J (Blood Transfusion: Older Child: Jehovah's Witnesses) [2024] EWHC 1034 (Fam)
- May 2024: Mental Health Act reform – impacts on autistic people and people with a learning disability https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0722/
- May 2024: Re A (Covert Medication: Residence) [2024] EWCA Civ 572
- May 2024: Berg v London Borough of Tower Hamlets [2024] EWFC 92
- May 2024: Re Patricia [2023] EWCOP 70
- May 2024: Solicitors Regulation Authority v Khan [2024] EWCA Civ 531
- May 2024: Ministry of Justice, 'Restricted Patients Statistics, 2023, England and Wales' (25/4/24)
- May 2024: R v Calocane [2024] EWCA Crim 490
- May 2024: Tribunal Procedure Committee, 'Consultation on possible amendments to the power to set-aside a decision' (consultation from 15/5/24 to 7/8/24)
- May 2024: Victims and Prisoners Act 2024
- May 2024: Mental Health Act reform – impacts on autistic people and people with a learning disability https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0722/
- May 2024: Muir v Astra Zeneca UK Limited Case No: 2405955/2021 - summarised in https://localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/employment/312-employment-features/57406-employees-and-mental-health
- May 2024: Final minutes and action points following the COP General User Group meeting held on 23 April 2024 (see email 23/5/24)
- May 2024: https://thesmallplaces.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/you-dont-need-to-demonstrate-mental-capacity-to-be-allowed-to-vote/
- May 2024: Griffiths, Application to Set Aside [2023] PBSA 24B (28 April 2023). Release of MHA patient by Parole Board set aside.
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