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January 2015 – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy. Monthly archives for January, 2015. CQC DOLS report for 2013-4 published. January 26, 2015. Written by Alex RK. The CQC published on 26 January its fifth annual report on the use of the DOLS regime, covering the period 2013-4. It also takes the opportunity to reflect upon the past years since the regime came into force, as well as reporting specifically upon practice in 2013-4. The report paints a distinctly depressing picture in many […]. Book Review: Black Rainbow. With ...
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June 2015 – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy. Monthly archives for June, 2015. Event in Parliament on Vegetative and. June 25, 2015. Written by Alex RK. Addressing the Conundrum: the MCA or . June 20, 2015. Written by Alex RK. Deprivation of liberty developments. June 18, 2015. Written by Alex RK. The guidance note previously prepared by the editors of the Mental Capacity Law Newsletters has now been updated to take account of this week’s decision of the Court of Appeal in Re X, and can be found here. It is ...I am re...
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News from New Zealand – testamentary capacity and undue influence – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy. News from New Zealand – testamentary capacity and undue influence. News from New Zealand – testamentary capacity and undue influence. July 17, 2015. Written by Alex RK. It is appropriate to highlight a Kiwi case in what is likely to be one of my last posts before I disappear to New Zealand for a month in part to co-teach a short course on mental capacity law at Auckland University with the great Kris Gledhill. Normal burblings will be resumed in late August). In. It did no...
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Book Review – Mental Health Tribunal Handbook – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy. Book Review – Mental Health Tribunal Handbook. Book Review – Mental Health Tribunal Handbook. July 21, 2015. Written by Alex RK. Mental Health Tribunal Handbook. Sarah Johnston, Sophy Miles and Dr Claire Royston (Legal Action Group, 2015: 48). Mental Health Act Manual. Full disclosure: I am very grateful to Legal Action Group for providing me with a copy of this book for purposes of this (unpaid) review. I should say that Sophy Miles and I co-authored the Court of Prot...
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Resources and blogs – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy. These are the free resources I use most often:. Mental Health Law Online. British and Irish Legal Information Institute. This hosts transcripts of decisions from a range of courts including, increasingly, the Court of Protection. I have included the RSS feed from this site for all decisions that it publishes relating to mental capacity (nb, this goes quite substantially wider than just cases decided in the Court of Protection). I make use of this online only (free) news se...
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Articles and papers – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy. On this page you can find links to a selection of articles and papers that I have written in the field of mental capacity law. Towards Compliance with CRPD Art. 12 in Capacity/Incapacity Legislation across the UK. A report co-written with a number of collaborators under the auspice of Professor Wayne Martin’s Essex Autonomy Project, assessing compliance between the MCA, the MCA (NI) and the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act and the CRPD. With thanks to Jordan Publishing.
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May 2015 – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy. Monthly archives for May, 2015. Your MCA rights on (almost) one page. May 18, 2015. Written by Alex RK. With thanks to Niall Fry of DH, you will find here the PDF of the MCA rights cards that DH has produced which can be ordered in handy credit-card size to deploy. I am particularly pleased to see the emphasis upon supporting decision-making…. Precedent orders – now updated. May 18, 2015. Written by Alex RK. May Newsletters now out! May 15, 2015. Written by Alex RK. A cros...
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Neglect upon neglect – the report into the investigation of neglect of older persons in care homes in Wales – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy. Neglect upon neglect – the report into the investigation of neglect of older persons in care homes in Wales. Neglect upon neglect – the report into the investigation of neglect of older persons in care homes in Wales. July 14, 2015. Written by Alex RK. For a deeply depressing read on a (in London wet) Tuesday evening, you could do worse than read the repor. 8221; As Margaret Flynn notes:. Abuse in care homes. Celtic ducks: guidance from Scotland as to deprivation of liberty.
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April 2015 – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy. Monthly archives for April, 2015. MHLA COP conference 3 July. April 23, 2015. Written by Alex RK. Please all rush at once to register for the Mental Health Lawyers Association 2nd annual COP Conference, to be held on 3 July 2015 in London, with the key note speech by Sir James Munby, President of the Court of Protection, and a range of other exciting speakers (and me! Details and how to register can be […]. Mental Capacity Act Steering Group do. April 15, 2015. The guidanc...
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