October 2008 chronology

See October 2008 update for a summary of these changes.

• 31/10/08: Welsh secondary legislation added... Mental Health Act 1983 Approved Clinician (Wales) Directions 2008 (made 20/10/08, comes into force 3/11/08)

• 31/10/08: Cases added... R (M) v Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust [2008] EWCA Civ 197 (displacement, permission hearings) and MH v UK 11577/06 [2008] ECHR 181‎ (displacement). Detailed summary added to R v Aisling Murray [2008] EWCA Crim 1792 (criminal)

• 30/10/08: Case added... M v South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust [2008] EWCA Civ 1112 (miscellaneous - habeas corpus)

• 30/10/08: Some Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards draft standard forms published on 29/10/08... See Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Standard Forms

• 30/10/08: On 23/10/08 the Public Guardian launched a consultation reviewing the Mental Capacity Act 2005: forms, supervision and fees. The consultation period will end on 15/1/09... See Office of the Public Guardian

• 29/10/08: Patient Information Leaflets for use in Wales published... See Mental Health Act 1983 information leaflets

• 28/10/08: Practice Direction: Health Education and Social Care Chamber: Mental Health Cases (draft) added... See Tribunal Rules

• 27/10/08: Website layout updated... See Main Page and Site map

• 24/10/08: A little more work done on MCA 2005 pages... See Lasting Power of Attorney, Enduring Power of Attorney, Court of Protection

• 23/10/08: Mental Health Act 1983 text updated to be accurate as at 3/11/08... See Mental Health Act 1983

• 23/10/08: Cases added... See R (B) v South Region MHRT [2008] EWHC 2356 (Admin) (Tribunal reasons, bias); Munjaz v UK 32913/06 [2008] ECHR 215‎ (Miscellaneous); D'Souza v DPP [1992] UKHL 10 (Miscellaneous)

• 21/10/08: Legislation added... Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Rules 2008, Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Chambers) Order 2008, Discipline of Judges (Designation) Order 2008

• 17/10/08: The Welsh Assembly Government have launched their "HOWIS" website for the Mental Health Act 1983, and published free statutory forms for use in Wales... See Mental Health Act 1983 Statutory Forms

• 17/10/08: The new Welsh Tribunal rules were laid before Parliament on 13/10/08 and should come into force on 3/11/08... See Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales Rules 2008

• 17/10/08: The Department of Health have published guidance on the extension of victims' rights under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004... See Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004 applies to unrestricted criminal patients for details

• 15/10/08: The Department of Health have published information leaflets in the following areas... Detention under Part 2; sections 135 and 136 ('Place of safety'); detention under Part 3; guardianship; supervised community treatment (SCT); miscellaneous. See Mental Health Act 1983 information leaflets

• 13/10/08: Text of all general articles updated to reflect position on 3/11/08; broken links fixed; pages relating to changes made by MHA 2007 now have details of commencement dates and extracts from Explanatory Notes... See Mental Health Act 2007 Overview#The amendments

• 13/10/08: Cases added... Shtukaturov v Russia 44009/05 [2008] ECHR 223; St Helens Borough Council v Manchester PCT [2008] EWCA Civ 931

• 13/10/08: Acts added... Health and Social Care Act 2008; Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007

• 13/10/08: Secondary legislation added... National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment Regulations 2008; Mental Capacity (Deprivation of Liberty: Standard Authorisations, Assessments and Ordinary Residence) Regulations 2008; Mental Capacity (Deprivation of Liberty: Appointment of Relevant Person's Representative) Regulations 2008; Mental Capacity (Deprivation of Liberty: Appointment of Relevant Person's Representative) (Amendment) Regulations 2008; Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008‎; Court of Protection Rules 2007; Public Guardian (Fees, etc) (Amendment) Regulations 2007; Lasting Powers of Attorney, Enduring Powers of Attorney and Public Guardian (Amendment) Regulations 2007; Public Guardian (Fees, etc) Regulations 2007; Public Guardian Board Regulations 2007; Lasting Powers of Attorney, Enduring Powers of Attorney and Public Guardian Regulations‎

• 07/10/08: On 6/11/08 regulations were laid before Parliament correcting drafting errors in the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Treatment) (England) Regulations 2008... See Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Treatment) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and Mental Health Act 1983 Statutory Forms. If anyone has statutory forms they would be prepared to share on the site then please send them in.

• 06/10/08: Case law section being restructured so as to be easier to navigate. Case summaries can be viewed according to various categories, including subject matter and year... See Mental health case law.

• 06/10/08: Some 2007 capacity cases added with links to summaries... A Local Authority v E [2007] EWHC 2396 (Fam), LLBC v TG [2007] EWHC 2640 (Fam) and Re SK [2007] EWHC 3289 (Fam).

• 03/10/08: Wikimentalhealth Update RSS feed added to site. The Wikimentalhealth Update RSS feed is generated from the bullet points on the Update section of the site. As the content of the new RSS feed is not computer generated, and contains only selected updates, it is recommended in preference to the built-in RSS feeds (Recent changes RSS and New pages RSS).