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Dec 2019: Medpage Today - Trump Administration Touts Mental Health Accomplishments
Dec 2019: BBC - Callie Lewis: Suicide after 'gross failure' by healthcare trust
Dec 2019: Independent - Home Office forced to pay £100,000 in damages to mentally ill man unlawfully detained for 838 days
Dec 2019: Mail - Fat cat boss of private mental health firm receives £445,000 pay rise despite hospitals failing autistic patients "Cygnet has almost doubled the package handed to its highest-paid director. Nine of the company's hospitals were failed this year by the official watchdog. Failings include the killing of one patient and the preventable suicide of another"
Nov 2019: Times - Female prisoner takes government to court after alleged assault by transgender inmate
Oct 2019: Court of Protection: P, Re [2019] EWCOP 42^B (01 October 2019)
Oct 2019: Court of Protection: London Borough of Southwark v NP & Ors [2019] EWCOP 48^B (24 October 2019)
Oct 2019: Court of Protection: Bagguley v E [2019] EWCOP 49^B (25 October 2019)
Oct 2019: Court of Protection: An NHS Foundation Trust v AB & Ors [2019] EWCOP 45^B (21 October 2019)
Oct 2019: Court of Protection: JDO, Re (authorisation of deprivation of liberty) [2019] EWCOP 47^B (22 October 2019)
Sep 2019: Guardian - Inspectors discover poor standards at 28 mental health units Psychiatrists call for inquiry after report on private units, many occupied by NHS patients
Sep 2019: The Hill - The two most important mental health reforms the Trump administration should consider
Sep 2019: Guardian - Doctors can perform C-section if woman loses mental capacity, judge rules
Sep 2019: BBC - Newbus Grange Hospital abuse: 'Sadistic' care worker Sean McNulty jailed
Sep 2019: Times - Healthy patient trapped on ward as social workers ignored family £
Aug 2019: Court of Protection: Twah, Re [2019] EWCOP 36^B (21 August 2019)
Aug 2019: Teeside Live - 'It's not rocket science': Passionate plea for health staff to 'do what they're paid for'
Aug 2019: Counsel Magazine - Penny Cooper - Vulnerable adults in the Court of Protection
Aug 2019: ITV News - 'Inadequate' West Lane mental health unit in Middlesbrough ordered to close also CQC - Serious concerns at West Lane Hospital CAMHS wards
Aug 2019: BBC - Sophie Bennett death: Clinician faces jail for 'withholding evidence'
Aug 2019: Belfast Telegraph - Muckamore still failing to meet standards
Aug 2019: iNews - Dire mental health provisions are costing the lives of vulnerable teenagers
Aug 2019: Psychology Today - Deinstitutionalization and Mass Murder What does the research really say about mental illness and mass violence?
Aug 2019: Wall Street Journal - Mental Illness and Mass Murder The FBI found 70% of shooters had ‘stressors’ or ‘concerning behaviors’ prior to the attack
Aug 2019: Telegraph - Killers and kidnappers receiving thousands of pounds in benefits while being detained by the state
Aug 2019: New York Post - Trump’s right: More mentally ill Americans need hospitalization
Jul 2019: Guardian - Anorexia not just a psychiatric problem, scientists find
Jul 2019: Court of Protection: United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust v CD [2019] EWCOP 24^B (04 July 2019)
Jul 2019: Court of Protection: London Borough of Tower Hamlets v NB (consent to sex) [2019] EWCOP 27^B (16 July 2019)
Jul 2019: Independent - Woman who 'wants to die' must have chemotherapy, judge rules
Jul 2019: Bashir v Bashir [2019] EWHC 1810 (Ch)^B (18 July 2019)
Jul 2019: Guardian - CQC places two Priory Group hospitals in special measures Facilities in Blandford, Dorset, and Royston, Hertfordshire, rated inadequate by inspectors
Jul 2019: Keiserie, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Justice [2019] EWHC 2252 (Admin)^B (02 July 2019) - licence conditions
Jun 2019: Forbes - Study Shows Heavy Adolescent Pot Use Permanently Lowers IQ
Jun 2019: Eastern Daily Press - Mental health nurse suspended from practice after telling staff to use pain compliance on dementia patient
Jun 2019: Cambridgeshire Live - Cambridgeshire social worker struck off after people died under his watch while making false mileage claims Peter Skelton was found to have not made regular visits to people who needed monitoring when seconded to an NHS Trust
Jun 2019: Court of Protection: Lawson, Mottram and Hopton, Re (appointment of personal welfare deputies) [2019] EWCOP 22^B (25 June 2019)
Jun 2019: Spectator - The verdict that brings hope to parents of disabled people
Jun 2019: Bristol Post - Bristol's mental health service spends almost £200k a year representing itself at inquests 'It doesn't protect future patients, just allows mental health trusts to protect themselves'- daughter of drowned mum failed by service
Jun 2019: Times - Lord Sumption: ‘If European court blocks parliament, we should quit’ £
May 2019: Financial Times - Setting up a lasting power of attorney
May 2019: Independent - Second care home for vulnerable people run by US multinational under criminal investigation as staff member charged with assault "Thors Park, a specialist hospital for men with learning disabilities in Thorrington, Essex"
May 2019: BBC - Whorlton Hall: Hospital 'abused' vulnerable adults
May 2019: Telegraph - Doctors are warned that learning disability or Down’s syndrome is no reason not to resuscitate a patient
May 2019: Guardian - Judges reduce benchmark for inquest decisions on suicide Coroner’s courts in England and Wales can now attribute suicide as cause of death if it is ‘more probable than not’
May 2019: BBC - More mental health patients sent 'hundreds of miles' for care
May 2019: Sky News - Privately-run mental health units putting young people at risk "Some 22 children have died from suspected self-inflicted deaths while admitted to mental health hospitals and inpatient units in the past five years. Figures released by the Department of Health and Social Care show that four patients under 18 have died already in 2019, matching the highest number of fatalities in any previous year."
May 2019: Independent - Investigation into learning disabilities services run by major NHS contractor after police brought in over ‘abuse’ of patients "Durham Constabulary investigating ‘physical and psychological abuse’ allegations at Whorlton Hall, County Durham which have led to 16 staff being suspended"
May 2019: Mail - Concerns about care home where ten staff members have been arrested over alleged abuse of patients were raised FOUR years ago by watchdog "Patients with autism, learning disabilities were 'mocked and intimidated'. Whorlton Hall is alleged to have been rated as 'inadequate' by the review. The Care Quality Commission has said sorry for missing the abuse."
May 2019: Telegraph - Pharmacists sent into care homes amid fears pensioners are being put at risk by drugs cocktail
May 2019: Guardian - Mental health services in crisis are abandoning patients to meet targets "Vulnerable patients are being ‘off-rolled’ at a rate unheard of five years ago, thanks to the relentless focus on outcome"
May 2019: ITV News - Tally of police incidents caused by mental health issues doubles
Apr 2019: Guardian - Mental health patients detained in hospital wards for up to 21 years
Apr 2019: Times - Priory hospital staff forged records after death of patient, 16 "A coroner criticised serious failings at a private mental health hospital after a 16-year-old schoolboy was found hanged in his room."
Apr 2019: Guardian - Council broke law over deprivation of liberty, ombudsman rules Staffordshire council decided in 2016 not to assess all cases of restrictive supervision
Apr 2019: Times - Britain’s cruel care system shames us all The death of a teenager at a Priory hospital is tragically just one example of a national crisis
Apr 2019: Community Care - Deprivation of liberty definition removed from DoLS replacement bill
Apr 2019: Guardian - English judge says man having sex with wife is 'fundamental human right' (misleading headline and article)
Apr 2019: Scotsman - Aaron Campbell: Some social workers in denial about child psychopaths – Dr John J Marshall
Apr 2019: Eastern Daily Press - Coroner to warn mental health trust over staff not reading patients’ notes Nyall Brown
Mar 2019: Guardian - DVLA U-turns on autism disclosure policy after uproar Drivers with autism will only need to disclose diagnosis if their driving is affected, following Guardian report
Mar 2019: BBC - Judge rules man should lose leg 'against his wishes' "A mentally-ill man who could die if his badly-infected left foot is not amputated should have the operation against his wishes, a judge has ruled. Mrs Justice Lieven also said the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust "could and should" have asked for the case to be considered earlier."
Mar 2019: Mail - My autistic child was kidnaped by social workers: Distraught mother claims family has spent £200,000 trying to free adult son from ‘secure house where he is drugged and restrained’
Mar 2019: Guardian - Autism charity escapes prosecution over care home bullying Residents at Mendip House in Somerset were teased and sworn at, report found
Feb 2019: 1 Crown Office Row - Alasdair Henderson secures award of damages for false imprisonment in a hospital setting Esegbona case.
2019: Parliament website: Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill 2017-19
2019: Spire Chambers directory of COP cases
2019: Roberts, R v [2019] EWCA Crim 1270^B (17 July 2019)
Jan 2019: Mail - Teenager sent to a health unit for a six-week autism check-up aged 18 is now caged with killers and rapists in a psychiatric hospital 13 years later Kyle Gibbon, 18, was locked in an infamous psychiatric hospital in Scotland
2019: Court Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2019
Jan 2019: Inquest - Inquest concludes that systematic failures and consistently missed opportunities caused death of Ryan Harvey at Woodhill prison
Jan 2019: National Elf Service - Mental Health Act review: the demise of the nearest relative?
2019: Add case summaries from Law Society DOL guidance. Including Mostyn Re P decision? Deprivation of liberty safeguards: a practical guide
Jan 2019: Mail - Worse than BROADMOOR: Nurse whistleblower claims he has seen psychopathic serial killers cared for better than the autistic children he has witnessed being violently held down and force-fed drugs at health unit funded by the NHS "Ian Summers spent eight years as a mental health nurse at Broadmoor hospital. Claims he saw patients more often violently held down in hospital unit holding vulnerable teens, some of them autistic, than when he looked after serial killers. He has blown the lid on life at Meadow Lodge, a unit in Devon funded by the NHS"
2019: SRA - Nnadozie Okpokiri - and SDT decision - or SDT
Jan 2019: Kent Online - NHS Oxleas Foundation Trust fined £300k after two nurses stabbed by a patient at Bracton Centre secure unit in Dartford
2019: CQC closed cultures guidance 1/11/19
Jan 2019: City Journal - Betraying the Most Vulnerable Civil libertarians and mental health advocates impose degradation on the seriously mentally ill.
2019: Bournewood R4 (though not available any more)
Jan 2019: PADSN - Safeguarding – Ombudsman supports Council In July the Local Government Ombudsman ruled on a complaint against Islington Council by the mother of a client following the removal of Appointeeship from her.
Jan 2019: Inquest - Priory Group plead guilty to health and safety charges on death of 14 year old Amy El-Keria
2019: CQC New publication: Mental Health Act Code of Practice 2015 evaluation - press release - publication page
2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mental-health-act-exercise-of-approval-instructions-2013
2019: MOJ Invitation to MHCS Open Session 11th September 2019 14 June 2019 on this page
Jan 2019: New York Times - What Advocates of Legalizing Pot Don’t Want You to Know "The wave toward legalization ignores the serious health risks of marijuana."
2019: Updated Law Society MHT panel guidance and form (March 2019 and Jan 2019) and general scheme guidance
2019: Updated RA statement (NR)
2019: M (Deprivation of Liberty in Scotland) [2019] EWHC 1510 (Fam)^B (17 June 2019)
2019: Lancs Safeguarding Adults Review - Adult H
2019: Inquest: Witness sentenced to months in prison for failure to attend inquest into the death of Sophie Bennett 30/10/19
2019: LGO: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (17 010 333a)
Jan 2019: Small Places - Psychiatric detention under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
2019: Public Guardian (Fees, etc) (Amendment) Regulations 2019
2019: Maybe: Elysium Healthcare No.2 Ltd v Ogunlami (VICTIMISATION DISCRIMINATION - Protected disclosure) [2019] UKEAT 0116_18_1202 (12 February 2019) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/2019/0116_18_1202.html
2019: Lawson, Mottram and Hopton, Re (appointment of personal welfare deputies) (Rev 1) [2019] EWCOP 22^B (25 June 2019)
2019: SRA - Jimoh Adun
2019: Maybe: OA165422013 [2019] UKAITUR OA165422013^B (26 April 2019) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKAITUR/2019/OA165422013.html
Jan 2019: LAA Contract terminations and exclusions
Jan 2019: BBC - Anorexic girl 'would rather die than eat', inquest hears
2019: Read and maybe add Mental Health Care (UK) Ltd v Edward Lupen Healthcare Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 1 (Ch)^B (09 January 2019)
2019: Bolton News - Social services praised for helping woman have sex with boyfriend
Jan 2019: Daniel Collins inquest "Coroner makes critical finding after young suicide in Birmingham. Recovery approach did not help" (Hundred Families summary)
2019: Invitation to MHCS Open Session 11th September 2019 - add as event
Dec 2019: Court of Protection: Z, Re [2019] EWCOP 55^M (20 December 2019)
Nov 2019: Court of Protection: Various applications concerning foreign representative powers, Re [2019] EWCOP 52^M (08 November 2019)
Sep 2019: Court of Protection: JB (Capacity: Consent To Sexual Relations And Contact With Others) [2019] EWCOP 39^M (17 September 2019)
Jul 2019: Court of Protection: Birmingham City Council v SR [2019] EWCOP 28^M (17 July 2019)
Jun 2019: Court of Protection: BP v The London Borough of Harrow (Costs) [2019] EWCOP 20^M (14 June 2019)
May 2019: Court of Protection: A Clinical Commissioning Group v P (Withdrawal of CANH) [2019] EWCOP 18^M (22 May 2019)
Apr 2019: Court of Protection: Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group v RW & Ors [2019] EWCOP 12^M (29 March 2019)
Mar 2019: Court of Protection: CB v Medway Council & Anor (Appeal) [2019] EWCOP 5^M (06 March 2019)
Mar 2019: Court of Protection: DCC v NLH [2019] EWCOP 9^M (19 March 2019)
Mar 2019: Court of Protection: London Borough of Hackney v SJF & Anor [2019] EWCOP 8^M (12 March 2019)
Feb 2019: Court of Protection: B (Capacity: Social Media: Care and Contact) [2019] EWCOP 3^M (21 February 2019
Feb 2019: Court of Protection: A (Capacity: Social Media and Internet Use: Best Interests) [2019] EWCOP 2^M (21 February 2019)
2019: B v A Local Authority [2019] EWCA Civ 913^M
2019: A City Council v LS & Ors (Secure Accommodation Inherent Jurisdiction) [2019] EWHC 1384 (Fam)^M ?
2019: AB (Termination of Pregnancy), Re [2019] EWCA Civ 1215^M (11 July 2019)
Jan 2019: A Local Authority v BF [2018] EWCA Civ 2962^M (21 December 2018)
2019: Re D (A Child) [2019] UKSC 42
2019: LV settlement