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- Dec 2020: Michele Janas, 'Puberty blockers and consent to treatment: an analysis of the High Court’s ruling' (Community Care, 11/12/20)
- Dec 2020: Julian Hendy, 'Emily Jones won't be the last to die if we don't admit that some mental patients are time bombs' (Mail, 5/12/20)
- Dec 2020: WHITHER THE INHERENT JURISDICTION? How did we get here? Where are we now? Where are we going? A Lecture by Sir James Munby to the Court of Protection Bar Association 10 December 2020
- Dec 2020: Open Justice COP Project - Challenging Reporting Restrictions in the Court of Protection
- Dec 2020: Open Justice COP - Is it lawful for Z’s carers to support him in accessing a sex worker?
- Dec 2020: Louise Perry, 'Men do not have the ‘right’ to sex' (UnHerd, 8/12/20)
- Dec 2020: "Inquest - Private Psychiatrist declined referral of suicidal man as he considered the needs were too complex and would be better resolved within the NHS, but didn't tell the patient." (Hundred Families summary) Martin Barrett
- Dec 2020: Victims’ Commissioner responds to consultation on making parole hearings open to victims - 3/12/20
- Dec 2020: Court of Protection: KK v Leeds City Council [2020] EWCOP 64B (14 December 2020)
- Dec 2020: "Coroner finds lack of urgent psychiatric beds in Suffolk, (and the entire country) were implicated in the avoidable death of mentally ill man." (Hundred Families summary) Piotr Kierzkowski
- Nov 2020: Herald Scotland - 'Unlawful' practice of sending elderly patients to locked Scots care home units banned after court fight
- Nov 2020: Court of Protection: A London NHS Trust v KB & Anor [2020] EWCOP 59B (25 November 2020)
- Nov 2020: Coroner - Ian Allen "Coroner criticises lack of Clozapine monitoring following patient's death" (Hundred Families summary)
- Nov 2020: Coroner - Viktor Scott Brown "Coroner criticises incomplete information from BNF & Maudsley Guidelines about worrying side-effects of Lamotrigine following patient's suicide." (Hundred Families summary)
- Nov 2020: UK Human Rights Blog - Mental health, clinical negligence and the illegality defence Henderson case
- Nov 2020: "Mental Health trust in Essex pleads guilty to Health and Safety breaches at the centre where the son of @MelanieLeahy Matthew died. They accepted their failure to manage ligature points allowed 11 people to die. The deaths happened between 2004 and 2015 at the North Essex Partnership Trust." @BBCLookEast
- Nov 2020: Code of Practice for Victims
- Nov 2020: Courts and Tribunals Judiciary - Chief Coroner’s combined annual report 2018 to 2019 and 2019 to 2020
- Nov 2020: Open Justice COP - When Expert Evidence Fails - 3/11/20
- Nov 2020: MCLAP - DHSC LPS Implementation 3rd Newsletter
- Nov 2020: Court of Protection: TC (Urgent Medical Treatment) [2020] EWCOP 53B (29 October 2020)
- Nov 2020: BMA - Out-of-area beds: no end in sight
- Nov 2020: Guardian - Judge says care home residents in England are legally allowed visitors
- Nov 2020: The Herald - 'Unlawful' practice of sending elderly patients to locked Scots care home units banned after court fight
- Nov 2020: Children's Commissioner - Hundreds of vulnerable ‘invisible children’ in England are being locked away without any legal protection The report, “Who are they, where are they?” shows that in the official figures there are 1,340 children ‘locked up’ in various institutions.
- Nov 2020: BBC - 'Toxic lockdown' sees huge rise in babies harmed or killed
- Nov 2020: Scottish Mental Health Law Review - Update - November 2020
- Nov 2020: 39 Essex Chambers - GUIDANCE NOTE: USING THE INHERENT JURISDICTION IN RELATION TO ADULTS
- Nov 2020: Inquest - Supreme Court lowers standard of proof for unlawful killing and suicide inquest conclusions to balance of probabilities Maughan, R (on the application of) v Her Majesty's Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire (Rev 1) [2020] UKSC 46B (13 November 2020) https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2020/46.html
- Oct 2020: Community Care - Single code of practice planned for Mental Capacity Act and deprivation of liberty Long-awaited update of Mental Capacity Act code will be combined with new statutory guidance on Liberty Protection Safeguards, government confirms
- Oct 2020: CQC - Out of sight – who cares?: Restraint, segregation and seclusion review
- Oct 2020: Gov.uk - Policy paper: JCHR reports on the detention of young people with learning disabilities or autism: government response Response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) recommendations on the rights of people with a learning disability or autistic young people in inpatient settings.
- Oct 2020: BBC - CQC report: Care of people with learning disabilities 'inhumane'
- Oct 2020: CQC - CQC reports on local action to improve mental health care for children and young people Today (21 October) we have published an update on work we carried out in 2018 looking at the quality of mental health services for children and young people, as well as the access to these services.
- Oct 2020: Telegraph - Dementia patient restrained by security guards 18 times to be forcibly treated The 77-year-old had a cloth held over his head while nurses inserted a catheter, an investigation found
- Oct 2020: Medical Law Review - An Aide Memoire for a Balancing Act? Critiquing The ‘Balance Sheet’ Approach to Best Interests Decision-Making
- Oct 2020: GMC - Decision making and consent
- Oct 2020: Court of Protection: The Health Service Executive of Ireland v IM & Anor [2020] EWCOP 51B (26 October 2020)
- Oct 2020: Court of Protection: Penntrust Ltd v West Berkshire District Council & Anor [2020] EWCOP 48B (28 September 2020)
- Oct 2020: Barbara Rich - The Prodigal Son in Modern Life FS v RS and JS [2020] EWFC 63M
- Oct 2020: 39 Essex Chambers - ADULT SOCIAL CARE: COVID-19 WINTER PLAN 2020 – 2021 This note provides an overview of the Department of Health and Social Care (non-statutory) guidance issued on 18 September 2020 concerning social care in England.
- Oct 2020: CQC - State of Care 2019/20
- Sep 2020: Court of Protection: DP v London Borough of Hillingdon [2020] EWCOP 45M (28 September 2020)
- Sep 2020: Open Justice COP Project - Advance Requests for Restraint and Compulsory Treatment
- Sep 2020: MOJ - A smarter approach to sentencing
- Sep 2020: MCLAP - DHSC MCA/DoLS guidance updated – in particular about face to face assessment
- Sep 2020: MCLAP - LPS – more flesh on the timetable bones
- Aug 2020: Open Justice COP Project - Over-ruling P’s Strong Wishes in a Best Interests Decision: Autonomy, Protection and P’s voice
- Aug 2020: Guardian - Sex and dementia: the intimate minefield of consent in a care home
- Aug 2020: NICE - Decision making and mental capacity. Quality standard QS194 Published date: 11 August 2020
- Aug 2020: Bristol Post - Man jailed for life for stabbing friend to death could be free in two years. Jamal Sheik-Mohammed was told he could be considered for release after two years
- Aug 2020: BBC - Detained autistic Hull man 'to be released' after 14 years in hospital 29 July 2020
- Aug 2020: Open Justice COP Project - Should P’s ‘Litigation Friend’ instruct P’s lawyer to promote P’s wishes and leave ‘Best Interests’ decision-making to the judge?
- Aug 2020: Hill Dickinson - Updated: Who pays? Guidance coming into effect 1 September 2020
- Aug 2020: Independent - Fragmented mental health services and failure to learn creates risks of violent homicides, report says
- Aug 2020: Court of Protection: Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v AB [2020] EWCOP 40B (16 August 2020)
- Jul 2020: Eastern Daily Press - ‘Unforgivable’ - Mental health trust allowed court hospital order to expire
- Jul 2020: A basic guide to the Court of Protection
- Jul 2020: Court of Protection: Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust v KD [2020] EWCOP 35B (02 July 2020)
- Jul 2020: Court of Protection: Cumbria County Council v A [2020] EWCOP 38B (16 July 2020)
- Jul 2020: Court of Protection: London Borough of Tower Hamlets v PB [2020] EWCOP 34B (03 July 2020)
- Jul 2020: Court of Protection: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership v WA & Anor [2020] EWCOP 37B (16 July 2020)
- Jul 2020: Court of Protection: A Local Authority v AB & Anor [2020] EWCOP 32B (02 July 2020)
- Jun 2020: Court of Protection: University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust v K & Anor [2020] EWCOP 31B (22 June 2020)
- Jun 2020: Care and support statutory guidance
- Jun 2020: Lucy Series - Making sense of Cheshire West
- Jun 2020: Community Care - Government tells sector ‘not to prioritise’ Liberty Protection Safeguards preparations
- Jun 2020: Court of Protection: AA Local Authority v RS (Capacity) [2020] EWCOP 29B (22 June 2020
- Jun 2020: Court of Protection: Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v MSP [2020] EWCOP 26B (01 June 2020)
- Jun 2020: Guidance: Ordinary residence 7: 2020
- May 2020: Mail - Woman, 30, is charged with murder after seven-year-old was stabbed to death as she played in park on Mother's Day
- May 2020: Court of Protection: VE v AO & Ors [2020] EWCOP 23B (05 May 2020)
- May 2020: Dutch News - Coronavirus leads to delay in ‘opt out’ organ donation programme
- May 2020: BBC - Coronavirus: 1,694 mental health patients discharged in 'error' Almost 1,700 mental health patients have been wrongly discharged from support services during the pandemic in north Wales.
- May 2020: Court of Protection: A Local Authority v AW [2020] EWCOP 24B (20 May 2020)
- May 2020: Independent - Deaths in mental health hospitals double as coronavirus spreads
- May 2020: Court of Protection: Hart & Anor v Large & Ors [2020] EWHC 985 (TCC) (22 May 2020) ? KKL Executor & Trustee Company Ltd v Harrison [2020] EWCOP 25B (01 May 2020)
- Apr 2020: Court of Protection: BP v Surrey County Council [2020] EWCOP 22B (29 April 2020)
- Apr 2020: Guardian - My mental health ward is not equipped for coronavirus. We feel like sitting ducks
- Apr 2020: Guardian - Judge orders mental health patient to vacate bed for Covid-19 cases
- Apr 2020: Guardian - Psychiatrists fear surge of Covid-19 cases in UK mental health units
- Mar 2020: Doughty Street - How does the Coronavirus Bill change the Mental Health Act?
- Mar 2020: Community Care - Social worker suspended for copying and pasting information between DoLS forms The tribunal said the practitioner had acted in a "dishonest, irresponsible and reckless manner"
- Mar 2020: Community Care - Coronavirus legislation becomes law, allowing ministers to suspend key Care Act duties
- Mar 2020: Guardian - Graham Enderby obituary
- Mar 2020: Gazette - First all-Skype trial tests crisis working at CoP
- Mar 2020: Cheshire Live - Macclesfield care worker 'shocked' colleagues when his actions were caught on CCTV
- Mar 2020: Court of Protection: Sunderland City Council v AS & Ors [2020] EWCOP 13M (20 March 2020)
- Mar 2020: BBC - Coronavirus: Care home residents could be 'cocooned'
- Mar 2020: Quartz - Ethicists agree on who gets treated first when hospitals are overwhelmed by coronavirus
- Mar 2020: HSJ - Trusts told: Forget the rules, get people out of hospital
- Mar 2020: Court of Protection: A Clinical Commissioning Group v AF & Ors [2020] EWCOP 16B (27 March 2020)
- Feb 2020: WSJ - Trump Takes a Stand for the Mentally Ill
- Jan 2020: Guardian - British girl who won life support legal battle is out of intensive care
- Jan 2020: Gazette - When to disapply subordinate legislation
- Jan 2020: Elderly abuse suspect could be allowed to starve himself to death, judge says Judge says there is evidence the man has mental capacity to decide to starve himself
- Jan 2020: BBC - Whorlton Hall abuse: Care watchdog wrong not to publish critical 2015 report
- 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 42B (01 October 2019)
- Oct 2019: Court of Protection: London Borough of Southwark v NP & Ors [2019] EWCOP 48B (24 October 2019)
- Oct 2019: Court of Protection: Bagguley v E [2019] EWCOP 49B (25 October 2019)
- Oct 2019: Court of Protection: An NHS Foundation Trust v AB & Ors [2019] EWCOP 45B (21 October 2019)
- Oct 2019: Court of Protection: JDO, Re (authorisation of deprivation of liberty) [2019] EWCOP 47B (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 36B (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 24B (04 July 2019)
- Jul 2019: Court of Protection: London Borough of Tower Hamlets v NB (consent to sex) [2019] EWCOP 27B (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 22B (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 1270B (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 22B (25 June 2019)
- 2019: SRA - Jimoh Adun
- 2019: Maybe: OA165422013 [2019] UKAITUR OA165422013B (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 2020: Re AA (Capacity to consent to sexual practices) [2020] EWCOP 66
- Nov 2020: NHS - Assessing capacity - Consent to treatment States "Situations that must always be referred to the courts include: ... withdrawal of nutrition and hydration from a person who's in a permanent vegetative state or minimally conscious state" (Tor Butler-Cole pointed out that this is wrong following An NHS Trust & Ors v Y [2018] UKSC 46M (30 July 2018)) - still online on 15/4/21... NHS, 'Consent to treatment' (last reviewed 29/3/19)
- Nov 2020: 39 Essex Chambers - November Mental Capacity Report and walkthrough
- Nov 2020: Court of Protection Handbook quarterly update – November 2020
- Nov 2020: Court of Protection: AMDC v AG & Anor [2020] EWCOP 58M (18 November 2020)
- Oct 2020: Court of Protection: P v Griffith [2020] EWCOP 46M (02 October 2020)
- Oct 2020: "Important guidance from the VP, Mr Justice Hayden, regarding crucial exceptions to the new regulations (Tier 3 restrictions) in respect of visiting persons in hospices and care homes." (COPPA) Court of Protection, 'COVID-19 restrictions and the Court of Protection' (15/10/20)
- Oct 2020: Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust [2020] UKSC 43M (30 October 2020)
- Oct 2020: 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity October Report now out – and walkthrough
- Sep 2020: Amended civil finance electronic handbook
- Sep 2020: Gov.uk - The Mental Capacity Act (2005) (MCA) and deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: additional guidance - DHSC, 'The MCA and DOLS during the coronavirus pandemic: additional guidance' (updated 12/1/21)
- Aug 2020: Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust v JB [2020] EWHC 2595 (Fam)
- Apr 2020: Court of Protection: London Borough of Tower Hamlets v A & Anor [2020] EWCOP 21M (23 April 2020)
- Mar 2020: Court of Protection: SF, Re [2020] EWCOP 15M (25 March 2020)
- Mar 2020: Court of Protection: The Health Service Executive of Ireland v Moorgate [2020] EWCOP 12M (11 March 2020)
- Mar 2020: Court of Protection: QD (Habitual Residence) (No.2) [2020] EWCOP 14M (25 March 2020)
- Mar 2020: Court of Protection: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v C [2020] EWCOP 10M (27 February 2020)
- Mar 2020: Court of Protection: ACC & Ors ( property and affairs deputy ; recovering assets costs for legal proceedings) [2020] EWCOP 9M (27 February 2020 )
- Feb 2020: Court of Protection: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v H [2020] EWCOP 6M (03 February 2020)
- Feb 2020: Court of Protection: Cardiff & Vale University Health Board v P [2020] EWCOP 8M (21 February 2020)
- Jan 2020: Court of Protection: Serious Medical Treatment, Guidance [2020] EWCOP 2M (17 January 2020)
- Jan 2020: Court of Protection: Guys And St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) & Anor v R [2020] EWCOP 4M (29 January 2020)
- Jan 2020: Court of Protection: QJ v A Local Authority [2020] EWCOP 3M (21 January 2020)
- Jan 2020: Court of Protection: D (A young man), Re [2020] EWCOP 1M (20 January 2020)
- Dec 2019: Court of Protection: Z, Re [2019] EWCOP 55M (20 December 2019)
- Nov 2019: Court of Protection: Various applications concerning foreign representative powers, Re [2019] EWCOP 52M (08 November 2019)
- Sep 2019: Court of Protection: JB (Capacity: Consent To Sexual Relations And Contact With Others) [2019] EWCOP 39M (17 September 2019)
- Jul 2019: Court of Protection: Birmingham City Council v SR [2019] EWCOP 28M (17 July 2019)
- Jun 2019: Court of Protection: BP v The London Borough of Harrow (Costs) [2019] EWCOP 20M (14 June 2019)
- May 2019: Court of Protection: A Clinical Commissioning Group v P (Withdrawal of CANH) [2019] EWCOP 18M (22 May 2019)
- Apr 2019: Court of Protection: Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group v RW & Ors [2019] EWCOP 12M (29 March 2019)
- Mar 2019: Court of Protection: CB v Medway Council & Anor (Appeal) [2019] EWCOP 5M (06 March 2019)
- Mar 2019: Court of Protection: DCC v NLH [2019] EWCOP 9M (19 March 2019)
- Mar 2019: Court of Protection: London Borough of Hackney v SJF & Anor [2019] EWCOP 8M (12 March 2019)
- Feb 2019: Court of Protection: B (Capacity: Social Media: Care and Contact) [2019] EWCOP 3M (21 February 2019
- Feb 2019: Court of Protection: A (Capacity: Social Media and Internet Use: Best Interests) [2019] EWCOP 2M (21 February 2019)
- 2019: B v A Local Authority [2019] EWCA Civ 913M
- 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 1215M (11 July 2019)
- Jan 2019: A Local Authority v BF [2018] EWCA Civ 2962M (21 December 2018)
- 2019: Re D (A Child) [2019] UKSC 42
- 2019: LV settlement