Peter Edwards has pulled together a list of the latest interesting and thought provoking articles from Twitter.
New MCA case (See quote from Baroness Hale above): Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James [2013] UKSC 67 (30 October 2013)
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2013/67.html
DoH detailed responses to the Report of the Health Committee of the House of Commons. Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Mental Health Act 2007
Government reforms ‘a blot on the rule of law’
Lord Neuberger warns of inefficiencies, delays and costs if legal aid is cut further
http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/news/government-reforms-%E2%80%98-blot-rule-law%E2%80%99
Law Society response to the House of Lords Select Committee Mental Capacity Act 2005
http://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/images/Law_Society_response_to_MCA_committee_5-9-13.pdf
Anger over government U-turn on 15-minute care visits
Amendments tabled to bill will remove power of Care Quality Commission to review councils’ care arrangements
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/21/u-turn-care-15-minute-visits
Elderly robbed by their own relatives: Family carers are abusing their legal powers and stealing their relations’ assets
Detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983: The Latest Statistics 2012-13
http://themaskedamhp.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/detentions-under-mental-health-act-1983.html?m=1
Social workers given guidance on improving Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards practice
Posts on ECHR judgment in MH v UK
Woman with Down’s syndrome was detained illegally, ECHR rules
Full judgement
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#{“appno”:[“11577/06″],”itemid”:[“001-127107”]}
European court of human rights orders UK government to pay £3,730 legal costs to woman held in hospital
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/oct/22/downs-syndrome-woman-compensation-detention
Deprivation of liberty and Mental Capacity Act – Europe beats Supreme Court to the punch?
People with low mental capacity living in suitable care are not ‘in detention’, despite what officials believe. Barbara Hewson
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/keep_the_law_out_of_disabled_care/14190#.Um0rziRFD3t