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==Website==
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*'''Cases.''' On 31/3/17 Mental Health Law Online contained [[Mental health case law|1842 categorised cases]]

*'''Chronology.''' See [[April 2017 chronology]] for this month's changes to the website in date order.

==Case law==
*{{csum|R (YZ) v Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (2017) EWCA Civ 203}}

*{{csum|Mole v Parkdean Holiday Parks Ltd (2017) EWHC B10 (Costs)}}

*{{csum|R (M) v FTT and CICA (2017) UKUT 95 (AAC)}}

*{{csum|N v ACCG (2017) UKSC 22}}

==Legal Aid Agency==
*'''Legal Aid Agency, 'Contract Management: Mental Health Guidance' (v2, 3/4/17).''' The {{link|https://www.gov.uk/government/news/civil-news-updated-mental-health-guidance-published|press release (4/4/17)}} for this updated guidance states: "Updated guidance has been published which helps providers with questions about mental health work under the 2014 Standard Civil Contract. Development of this update follows constructive discussions with the Mental Health Lawyers Association and the Law Society. The updated document clarifies a small number of provisions in the 2014 Standard Civil Contract. For example, the requirements for triggering a Level 2 (Mental Health Proceedings) Fee. The questions covered in the document are the most common ones raised by providers since the introduction of a standard fee scheme for this work in 2008." See [[Legal Aid#Guidance documents]]

==Law Society==
*'''Law Society mental capacity (welfare) accreditation scheme.''' See [[Law Society mental capacity (welfare) accreditation scheme]]

==Other==
*'''Lucy Series, 'It's that time again…' (20/4/17).''' This article notes that in order to vote there is no need to have the mental capacity to vote (s73(1) [[Electoral Administration Act 2006]] states that "[a]ny rule of the common law which provides that a person is subject to a legal incapacity to vote by reason of his mental state is abolished"), but the Electoral Commission is of the view that the declaration of truth on the individual voter registration form must be signed with someone with mental capacity to do so or by a deputy/attorney. See [[Voting rights for detained patients#Capacity]]

*'''Aasya Mughal and Steven Richards, 'Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Case Law Summary 2015-17' (updated on 9/4/17).''' See [[Newsletters#Edge Training]]

==Events==
*'''MHLA: Panel course - London, 28/6/17 and 29/6/17''' {{eventsummary|MHLA: Panel course - London, 28/6/17 and 29/6/17|d}}

*'''Edge Training: MHA Code of Practice - Preparing for the CQC - London, 22/5/17''' {{eventsummary|Edge Training: MHA Code of Practice - Preparing for the CQC - London, 22/5/17|d}}

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