Twitter highlights covering Mental Health & Capacity Law

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)

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

Law Society response to the House of Lords Select Committee Mental Capacity Act 2005

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

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

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

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