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Dec 2023: https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/08/18/legal-analysis-the-supreme-courts-verdict-on-ordinary-residence-and-mental-health-aftercare/
Nov 2023: Ieropoullos v Wilson [2023] EWHC 2814 (Ch)^B (09 November 2023)
Nov 2023: Exolum Pipeline System Ltd, R (On the Application Of) v Crown Court at Great Grimsby [2023] EWHC 2811 (Admin)^B (10 November 2023) - mentions some mental heath cases
Nov 2023: https://courtofprotectionhandbook.com/handbook-updates/ Quarterly update, Nov 23
Nov 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-law-commission-report-unfitness-to-plead
Oct 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/conditionally-discharged-restricted-patient-report 2023 updates
Oct 2023: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1153263/Restricted_Patients_Statistical_Bulletin_2022.pdf - add to Statistics - Ministry of Justice
Oct 2023: BF v LE [2023] EWHC 2009 (Fam)^B (31 July 2023)
Oct 2023: Rea v Rea & Ors (Re Estate of Anna Rea) [2023] EWHC 1901 (Ch)^B (26 July 2023)
Oct 2023: Johnson v Edwardian International Hotels Ltd [2008] UKEAT 0588_07_0205 (2 May 2008)
Oct 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/conditionally-discharged-restricted-patient-report 26 July 2023 Updated Conditional discharge report form
Oct 2023: Wilkinson & Ors v Hicken (Re Last Will of Norman Walter Gill) [2023] EWHC 1983 (Ch)^B (18 May 2023)
Oct 2023: Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust v D & Ors [2023] EWHC 2000 (Fam)^B (30 June 2023)
Oct 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-statutory-guidance/care-and-support-statutory-guidance Care and support statutory guidance Updated 5 October 2023
Oct 2023: PN, Re (Capacity: Sexual Relations and Disclosure) [2023] EWCOP 44^B
Oct 2023: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Ors v Tooke & Ors [2023] EWCOP 45^B
Oct 2023: WSP (A Child), Re (Vaccination: Religious Objection) [2023] EWHC 2622 (Fam)^B ?
Oct 2023: Health and Social Care Trust v JU (Rev1) [2023] NIFam 12^B
Oct 2023: Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust v FD & Ors [2023] EWHC 2634 (Fam)^B (29 June 2023) - anorexia
Oct 2023: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust v KT & Ors [2023] EWCOP 46^B (25 August 2023) - prolonged disorder of consciousness, death
Oct 2023: H, Re (An Adult; Termination) [2023] EWCOP 183^B (24 October 2023)
Oct 2023: El Gazzaz v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 532^B (21 March 2018) deportation
Oct 2023: Barnet Enfield And Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust & Anor v Mr K & Ors [2023] EWCOP 35^B (15 August 2023)
Oct 2023: Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v X & Anor [2023] EWCOP 34^B (04 August 2023)
Oct 2023: TPC minutes incl VPS and paper hearings July 2023 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/tribunal-procedure-committee/about
Oct 2023: Upload newly formatted version of Mental Health Tribunal, 'Guidance for the observation of tribunal hearings in the First-tier Tribunal Health Education and Social Care Chamber (mental health jurisdiction)' (10/1/19) from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-the-observation-of-tribunal-hearings-t120 †
Oct 2023: https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2019-12/president-of-welsh-tribunals-first-annual-report.pdf †
Oct 2023: https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/13/courts-to-stop-monitoring-regulation-of-unregistered-placements-for-children-deprived-of-liberty/
Oct 2023: https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/major-report/state-care State of Care 2022/23
Oct 2023: https://consult.justice.gov.uk/law-commission/wills/ Closes 8 Dec 2023 Opened 5 Oct 2023
Oct 2023: VA, Re (Medical Treatment) [2023] EWCA Civ 1190^B (13 October 2023) incl ICLR†
Oct 2023: Littaur v Collett & Ors (Re Littaur Marriage Settlement 1948) [2023] EWHC 2225 (Ch)^B (28 July 2023) mentions litigation capacity
Oct 2023: KD (A minor), Re [2013] NIQB 6^B (05 Jul 2013) ?
Oct 2023: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust v JM & Anor [2023] EWCOP 38^B (18 August 2023) serious medical treatment
Oct 2023: Clark v The Chief Constable of Merseyside Police [2023] EWHC 2565 (KB)^M (16 October 2023)†
Oct 2023: https://www.courts.ie/content/inherent-jurisdiction-capacity-applications
Oct 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/conditionally-discharged-restricted-patient-report
Oct 2023: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/canada-legalized-medical-assisted-suicide-euthanasia-death-maid/673790/
Oct 2023: https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/revised-national-listing-protocol-for-applications-that-seek-deprivation-of-liberty-orders-relating-to-children-under-the-inherent-jurisdiction/
Oct 2023: Glover v Barker & Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 1112^B (21 August 2020) - "This appeal raises important issues as to the circumstances in which litigation friends should be ordered to pay other parties' costs."
Oct 2023: Thomas, Application to Set Aside [2023] PBSA 34^B (19 June 2023) - Parole Board, s47/49
Oct 2023: Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust v Mrs VA & Anor [2023] EWCOP 39^B (25 August 2023) - death
Oct 2023: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-66108009 - treason - s45A
Oct 2023: Oceana, R (On the Application Of) v Upper Tribunal (Immigration And Asylum Chamber) (Rev1) [2023] EWHC 791 (Admin)^B (04 April 2023) - ouster clause in section 11A of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
Oct 2023: Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 s2 (Exclusion of review of Upper Tribunal’s permission-to-appeal decisions) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/35/section/2/enacted - reversing R (Cart) v Upper Tribunal [2011] UKSC 28
Oct 2023: John Blavo struck off - https://www.solicitorstribunal.org.uk/sites/default/files-sdt/12406.2022.Blavo_.pdf - https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sra-accuses-former-legal-aid-boss-of-utterly-brazen-fraud/5115419.article - https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/blavo-boss-struck-off-after-offering-no-defence-to-fraud/5115430.article - https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/disciplinary-tribunal-condemns-blavos-industrial-dishonesty - https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/blavo-to-face-sdt-at-last-over-huge-legal-aid-fraud - https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/solicitor-check/007958/ - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11864095/Lawyer-swindled-taxpayer-22million-legal-aid-banned-profession.html
Oct 2023: https://www.courts.ie/content/inherent-jurisdiction-capacity-applications
Oct 2023: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/29-september/comment/opinion/opinion-dying-woman-denied-last-hope
Sep 2023: Galo v Bombardier Aerospace UK [2023] NICA 50^B (03 July 2023)† Litigation capacity
Sep 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/step-forward-to-online-lasting-power-of-attorneys
Sep 2023: Add all cases from https://www.mhtscotland.gov.uk/mhts/Legislation_and_Caselaw/Legislation_and_Caselaw
Sep 2023: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/service-specification-high-secure-mental-health-services-adult/ NHS England, ‘Service specification: High secure mental health services (Adult)’ (21 February 2021) para 2.1.5
Sep 2023: Z NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v Patricia & Ors [2023] EWCOP 41^B (09 May 2023)†
Sep 2023: Solihull MBC (19 002 160) - accommodation for s117 https://www.lgo.org.uk/decisions/adult-care-services/assessment-and-care-plan/19-002-160
Sep 2023: BR & Ors, Re (Transparency Order: Finding of Fact Hearing) [2023] EWFC 9^B (25 January 2023)† - family court - transparency order
Sep 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-factsheets/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-release-of-serious-offenders-factsheet Updated 20 August 2022
Sep 2023: Bailey & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Justice [2023] EWHC 821 (Admin)^B (05 April 2023) Parole Board†
Sep 2023: SA, Re (Declaration of Non-Recognition of Marriage) [2023] EWCA Civ 1003^B (30 August 2023) incl ICLR†
Sep 2023: JJ, R (On the Application Of) v Spectrum Community Health CIC (Rev1) [2023] EWCA Civ 885^B (25 July 2023)† - is a patient entitled to demand medical treatment which is not clinically indicated and therefore not offered to him by the doctor?
Sep 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/oliver-mcgowan-draft-code-of-practice
Sep 2023: PA011122020 [2023] UKAITUR PA011122020^B (14 August 2023) Criticism of psychiatric reports URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKAITUR/2023/PA011122020.html
Sep 2023: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-psychiatric-treatment/article/mental-health-tribunals-in-england-and-wales-a-representatives-guide/8913700B38C09A238A142B8FD4331E03 Jones C, Nimmagadda S and Veitch P, “Mental Health Tribunals in England and Wales: a Representative's Guide” (2013) 19 Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 40
Sep 2023: https://www.gov.wales/a-new-tribunal-system-for-wales-white-paper
Sep 2023: 4 September 2023 Published updated Lord Chancellor's guidance on determining financial eligibility for certificated work, exceptional funding (inquests), and exceptional funding (non-inquests). Published Lord Chancellor's guidance on determining financial eligibility for controlled work and family mediation. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/funding-and-costs-assessment-for-civil-and-crime-matters
Sep 2023: https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/09/04/guide-to-determining-ordinary-residence-for-aftercare-under-the-mental-health-act/
Aug 2023: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1172845/MHCS_Performance_Framework_.pdf - Mental Health Casework Section performance management framework and target timescales - This document presents target timescales for the Mental Health Casework Section (MHCS) to consider key decisions for restricted patients. This document replaces the framework published on 30 July 2021. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mhcs-performance-management-framework-and-target-timescales-202122
Aug 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mental-health-casework-first-tier-tribunal-guidance Version 1.1 Issued December 2017 This guidance provides stakeholders (including patients and their families, responsible clinicians and other report writers and victims) with an overview of the Tribunal process for Restricted Patients. “MHCS Action” boxes and the annexes are directed to MHCS staff and provide guidance to those staff on MHCS internal processes. They are published within this guidance to enable stakeholders to understand the MHCS procedures in place and how decisions are made on behalf of the Secretary of State.
Aug 2023: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-capacity-act-2005-deprivation-of-liberty-safeguards-assessments/2022-23
Aug 2023: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/07/essex-mental-health-inquiry-pointless-without-legal-powers-say-families
Aug 2023: Creating a new NHS England: Health Education England, NHS Digital and NHS England have merged. https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/nhs-digital-merger-with-nhs-england
Aug 2023: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Adult-Low-Secure-Service-Specification-SCFT-WSBS-addendum-version.pdf
Aug 2023: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/admissions_policies_rampton_high
Aug 2023: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/service-specification-high-secure-mental-health-services-adult.pdf https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/service-specification-high-secure-mental-health-services-adult/
Aug 2023: CWC MH: Mental Health Application for Prior Authority to incur enhanced rates for counsel on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mental-health-legal-help-and-representation
Aug 2023: CW4 MH: Application for review of refusal or withdrawal of Controlled Legal Representation on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mental-health-legal-help-and-representation
Aug 2023: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/PBRA/2023/S33.html Parole Board
Aug 2023: Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v JS & Anor (Schedule 1A Mental Capacity Act 2005) [2023] EWCOP 33^M (10 August 2023)
Aug 2023: El Gazzaz v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 532^B (21 March 2018) Immigration
Aug 2023: Court of Protection Handbook update August 2023
Aug 2023: Final minutes and action points following the COP P&A User Group meeting held on 12 July 2023 - email 11/8/23
Aug 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/placing-children-deprivation-of-liberty-orders/placing-children-deprivation-of-liberty-orders
Aug 2023: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2023/1901.html
Jul 2023: May 2023 Legal Action MH article
Jul 2023: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/hospital-discharge-fund-guidance/
Jul 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/make-a-report-on-someones-capacity-to-make-decisions-form-cop3
Jul 2023: https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/sites/default/files/page/A%20report%20of%20investigations%20into%20unsafe%20discharge%20from%20hospital.pdf A report of investigations into unsafe discharge from hospital 2016
Jul 2023: https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/a-view-from-the-presidents-chambers-july-2023/
Mar 2023: Hayden end of presidency letter - see email 17/2/23
Mar 2023: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65068900 Betsi Cadwaladr: Apology over Jean Graves, 10 years on
Mar 2023: https://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Practice-Note-Cafcass-and-OS-FINAL-JANUARY-2023.pdf
Mar 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/certificate-as-to-capacity-to-conduct-proceedings
Mar 2023: Were there any judgments about Winterbourne?
Mar 2023: https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2022/03/22/guide-to-the-draft-mca-code-of-practice/
Mar 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/amendments-to-parole-board-rules From 21st July 2022, there are a number of amendments to the Parole Board Rules 2019.
Mar 2023: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-64891545 Whorlton Hall: BBC film exposed staff cruelty, court told
Mar 2023: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/expert-witnesses-in-legal-aid-cases Guidance about expert witnesses in cases funded by legal aid, including fees, prior authority and provisions for specific types of expert.
Mar 2023: https://publicguardian.blog.gov.uk/2023/02/13/refreshed-deputy-standards/
Mar 2023: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09649069.2023.2175549 Christopher Sayer, Ceri Jones, Stewart Mills & Richard Griffith (2023) The capacity test; a lament for the ‘old order’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 45:1, 27-40, DOI: 10.1080/09649069.2023.2175549
Mar 2023: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2013/83/ Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 - Southern Ireland
Mar 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changes-to-the-mca-code-of-practice-and-implementation-of-the-lps
Mar 2023: https://openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2023/03/17/deprived-of-her-liberty-my-experience-of-the-court-procedure-for-my-mum/
Mar 2023: https://www.hiw.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-03/20230307-CwmTafLocalReview-FINAL-ENGLISH.pdf Reviewing the Quality of Discharge Arrangements from Adult Inpatient Mental Health Units within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Feb 2023: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/safe-and-wellbeing-reviews-thematic-review-and-lessons-learned/
Feb 2023: https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/hesc-presidential-guidance-note-no1-of-2022-taking-oral-evidence-from-abroad-and-representatives-and-observers-appearing-from-abroad/ "This guidance replaces interim guidance issued by the Chamber President’s Office on 9 May 2022. This guidance is issued to draw to the attention of judicial office holders and parties to proceedings in the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber the decision of the Upper Tribunal in Agbabiaka (evidence from abroad; Nare guidance) [2021] UKUT 286 (IAC)^B (external link) and the procedure to be followed when a party to a case wishes to rely upon oral evidence given by video or telephone by a person (including the party themselves) who is in the territory of a nation state other than the United Kingdom."
Feb 2023: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6888/draft-mental-health-bill/publications/ Report - Draft Mental Health Bill 2022 Published 19 January 2023
Feb 2023: https://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/powers-of-attorney-bill-what-changes-would-it-make-to-the-lpa-regime-in-england-wales-walkthrough-and-amended-version-of-mca/
Feb 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/certificate-as-to-capacity-to-conduct-proceedings - revised 8/2/23
Feb 2023: https://www.lgo.org.uk/information-centre/news/2022/apr/ombudsmen-release-joint-guidance-to-tackle-common-mistakes-in-aftercare-of-mental-health-in-patients
Feb 2023: https://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/joint-practice-note-cafcass-and-official-solicitor-urgent-out-of-hours-applications-in-relation-to-medical-treatment-concerning-children/
Feb 2023: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/rampton-hospital-patient-patient-assaults-8181399
Feb 2023: Shehabi & Anor v Kingdom of Bahrain [2023] EWHC 89 (KB)^B (08 February 2023) ? This case is principally about state immunity. The Claimants have sued the Defendant, the Kingdom of Bahrain, for damages for personal injury in the form of psychiatric injury which they say they suffered as a result of the infection of their laptop computers with spyware by the Defendant, which enabled it to conduct surreptitious surveillance on them.
Feb 2023: https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids
Jan 2023: Add PDFs to Mental Health Act 1983 information leaflets
Jan 2023: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/605/joint-committee-on-the-draft-mental-health-bill/news/175494/government-urged-to-strengthen-draft-mental-health-bill/
Jan 2023: Add redacted MHLR for old cases with missing transcripts
Jan 2023: https://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Section-49-Guidance-December-2022.pdf scope and ambit of Section 49 reports
Jan 2023: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/23/ministers-order-rapid-review-into-mental-health-inpatient-care-in-england
Jan 2023: https://www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/3d72765c-2019-43fd-83d0-e10508383031/2022_IEHC_738.pdf/pdf#view=fitH
Jan 2023: https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/23206422.tragic-deaths-exposed-east-london-mental-health-failures/
Jan 2023: Former BT executive who killed wife with chopping board wins slice of her £2.5m estate - Mirror Online https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/former-bt-executive-who-killed-28766753
Jan 2023: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/tom/
Jan 2023: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-64029162 NHS trust apologises as man kept in hospital for more than a year
Jan 2023: https://www.emhii.org.uk/announcements/ Open letter from Dr Geraldine Strathdee, Chair to the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry, 12 January 2023
Dec 2023: Anselm Eldergill, 'LPS weaknesses' (LinkedIn, 13/12/23)
Dec 2023: Practice Guidance: Recording of hearings in the HESC and transcription of recordings (Presidential guidance note no 3 of 2003, 14/12/23) and Sarah Johnston, 'Recording in hearings' (Letter, 15/12/23).
Dec 2023: TPC, 'Reply to Consultation and Further Consultation on possible amendments to the TPR regarding proposed changes to the way that the FTT decides cases referred to the Tribunal pursuant to s.68 MHA' (consultation from 19/12/23 to 13/2/24)
Dec 2023: Civil Justice Council, 'Procedure for Determining Mental Capacity in Civil Proceedings Working Group: Consultation Paper' (consultation from 15/12/23 to 17/3/24)
Oct 2023: Tigrinya added to Foreign-language information leaflets
Oct 2023: Event:Hill Dickinson: Obstetrics cases in the Court of Protection (online, 2/11/23)
Oct 2023: Legal Aid Agency, 'Procurement process for 2024 Standard Civil Contract from September 2024 - Frequently Asked Questions' (5/10/23)
Oct 2023: 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Case Reports' (issue 3, October 2023)
Oct 2023: 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 135, October 2023)
Sep 2023: Jonathan Sumption, 'Judgment call: the case for leaving the ECHR' (Spectator, 30/9/23)
Sep 2023: Care Quality Commission, 'Mental Health Act community treatments orders (CTO) - focused visits report' (1/11/22)
Sep 2023: HMPPS, 'MAPPA Guidance' (dated March 2023, updated 13/9/23)
Sep 2023: Alice Roe, 'Children subject to deprivation of liberty orders' (Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, 15/9/23)
Sep 2023: 2023-09-15 Powers of Attorney Bill
Sep 2023: Legal Aid Agency, 'Standard civil contract 2024' (13/9/23)
Sep 2023: Legal Aid Agency, 'Civil 2024 Contract Procurement Process' (13/9/23)
Sep 2023: Law Society, 'Practice note: Accredited legal representatives in the Court of Protection' (4/9/23)
Sep 2023: Baker v H [2009] EWCOP B31 (moved from Baker v H [2009] EWHC B31 (Fam))
Sep 2023: Re Brammall: W Primary Care Trust v TB [2009] EWCOP 1737 (moved from Re Brammall; W Primary Care Trust v TB [2009] EWHC 1737 (Fam)
Sep 2023: Re P (Statutory Will) [2009] EWCOP 163 (moved from Re P [2009] EWHC 163 (Ch))
Sep 2023: 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 134, September 2023)
Sep 2023: Legal Aid Agency, 'Civil Finance Electronic Handbook' (v3.4, dated 1/8/23)
Sep 2023: Legal Aid Agency, 'Escape Case Electronic Handbook' (v2.3, 1/8/23)
Sep 2023: Legal Aid Agency, 'Form CW 1&2 MH' (v19, August 2023)
Aug 2023: https://www.39essex.com/events/everything-you-wanted-know-about-s117-mental-health-act-1983-were-afraid-ask
Aug 2023: Julian Hendy, 'Open Justice consultation - response from the Hundred Families charity' (22/8/23)
Aug 2023: Event:39 Essex Chambers: Everything you wanted to know about s117 MHA 1983 but were afraid to ask (online, 5/9/23)
Jul 2023: 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Case Reports' (issue 2, July 2023)
Jul 2023: Law Society, 'Guide: Financial abuse' (13/6/23)
Jul 2023: 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Case Reports' (issue 1, April 2023)
Jul 2023: Law Society, 'Working with clients who may lack mental capacity' (14/6/23)
Jun 2023: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anselm-eldergill-53146142_mental-health-bill-liberty-protection-safeguards-activity-7068883285434605568-gobf Anselm Eldergill - MH Legislative Reform
Jun 2023: Maguire [2023] UKSC 20^M
May 2023: Baker & Anor v Hewston [2023] EWHC 1145 (Ch)^M (05 May 2023) - testamentary capacity
Apr 2023: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/civil-legal-aid-means-testing Keycard 59 - April 2023
Apr 2023: Rebecca Thomas, 'Hospital of horrors: 1,643 ‘sexual safety incidents’ in a single 59-bed children’s unit' (Independent, 11/4/23)
Apr 2023: Link to UKSC hearing video added to R (Worcestershire County Council) v SSHSC [2021] EWCA Civ 1957
Apr 2023: Abbasi v Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWCA Civ 331
Apr 2023: National Preventive Mechanism, 'Monitoring places of detention: 13th Annual Report of the UK's NPM' (17/4/23)
Apr 2023: Alex Ruck Keene (ed), Assessment of Mental Capacity (5th edn, Law Society 2022)
Mar 2023: Parole Board, 'Guidance on Restricted Patients and the Mental Health Act' (v1.0, October 2020)
Mar 2023: R v Crerand [2022] EWCA Crim 962
Mar 2023: Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Mailley [2022] EWHC 2328 (QB)
Mar 2023: Powers of Attorney Bill 2022
Mar 2023: Blackpool Borough Council v HT (A Minor) [2022] EWHC 1480 (Fam)
Mar 2023: Williams v Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board [2022] EWHC 455 (QB)
Mar 2023: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 'Concluding observations on the initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' (3/10/17)
Mar 2023: Alex Ruck Keene et al, 'Court of Protection Handbook: Handbook updates' (updated 1/2/23)
Mar 2023: Trafford Borough Council v B [2022] EWHC 1406 (Fam)
Mar 2023: R v Byrne [2022] EWCA Crim 1630
Mar 2023: R (Percival) v Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire [2022] EWHC 3544 (Admin)
Mar 2023: A County Council v A [2022] EWHC 3572 (Fam)
Mar 2023: Parole Board, 'Mental Capacity Assessments and Litigation Friends: Member Guidance' (v1.0, October 2021)
Mar 2023: R v Miller [2021] EWCA Crim 1955
Mar 2023: FXJ v SSHD [2022] EWHC 1531 (QB)
Mar 2023: Office of the Public Guardian, 'Simplified process for verifying the death of a donor, attorney, deputy or guardian' (blog, 13/1/23) and Office of the Public Guardian, 'Updating Public Guardian registers: Notification of death' (practice note SD16, January 2023)
Mar 2023: Re Troy (A Child) [2022] EWHC 3426 (Fam)
Mar 2023: An ICB v RN and TN [2022] EWCOP 41
Mar 2023: 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 130, March 2023)
Mar 2023: R (Patton) v HM Assistant Coroner for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire [2022] EWHC 1377 (Admin)
Feb 2023: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/31/bedfordshire-police-bill-nhs-time-officers-spend-mental-health/
Feb 2023: Court of Protection, 'Letter about s49 reports' (Mr Justice Hayden, 16/12/22)
Feb 2023: 'Closed Hearings' and 'Closed Material': Guidance [2023] EWCOP 6
Feb 2023: Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v C [2023] EWHC 239 (Fam)
Feb 2023: R (C) v SSJ [2014] EWHC 167 (Admin)
Feb 2023: Coventry City Council v MK [2023] EWHC 249 (Fam)
Feb 2023: P, Re (Appeal: Forced Marriage Protection Order: Jurisdiction) [2023] EWHC 195 (Fam)^M (02 February 2023)
Feb 2023: https://courtofprotectionhandbook.com/handbook-updates/ 1/2/23
Feb 2023: R (Percival) v Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire [2022] EWHC 3544 (Admin)
Feb 2023: 39 Essex Chambers, 'When P is an offender' (webinar recording, 21/2/23)
Feb 2023: A Local Authority v H [2023] EWCOP 4^M (07 February 2023)
Feb 2023: R (C) v SSJ [2014] EWCA Civ 1009
Feb 2023: 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 129, February 2023)
Jan 2023: 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 128, December 2022)
Jan 2023: Re X (Secure Accommodation: Lack of Provision) [2023] EWHC 129 (Fam)
Jan 2023: Landmark Chambers, 'Delayed Transfer of Care leads to £100k legal bill for an ICB' (24/11/22)
Jan 2023: TN v An NHS ICB [2022] EWCOP 53
Jan 2023: Noted Sept 2020 reissue of HMPPS, 'Mentally disordered offenders - the restricted patient system' (22/12/17)