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Mental Capacity Law Cases
Re SF (Injunctive Relief)
Summary In Re SF (Injunctions) [2020] EWCOP 19, Keehan J was concerned with a young woman, SF, who had a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and also had learning… Read more »
A Healthcare, B NHS Trust v CC
Summary This case concerned a 34-year-old man (‘CC’) with psychotic depression, mixed personality disorder who was deaf, had diabetes and was detained under s.3 of the Mental Health Act 1983…. Read more »
Re Various applications concerning foreign representative powers
Summary In this case, Senior Judge Hilder has returned to the somewhat complex issues that arise where an attorney seeks to use a power of representation granted in a foreign… Read more »
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v PR (No 2)
Summary This is the costs judgment arising from the substantive judgment in Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v PR & Ors [2019] EWHC 2305, concerned with a 32 year old… Read more »
DXW v PXL
Summary In this case P suffered serious brain injuries whilst at work. These left him with severe cognitive and executive impairments. Apart from lacking litigation capacity, the evidence was clear… Read more »
DL v LB Enfield
Summary In this case, a local authority respondent sought to challenge the jurisdiction of the Court of Protection in relation to s.21A applications, “to challenge what might colloquially be called… Read more »
London Borough of Croydon v CD
Summary The local authority brought a case before the court seeking orders to enable them to provide care to CD for his own protection. CD was not present at the… Read more »
BP v LB Harrow
Summary[1] This was a s.21A MCA 2005 application made on behalf of “P” who objected to being in a care home. He wanted to return to the family home, where… Read more »
A City Council v LS, RE and KS (A Child)
Summary The issue in this case was whether the High Court had power under its inherent jurisdiction to authorise the deprivation of liberty of a 17-year-old who was at grave… Read more »
North Yorkshire County Council v George Elliot
Summary Mr Elliott was the subject of a sexual harm prevention order preventing him from having contact with children under 16. In circumstances that are not described in the judgment,… Read more »
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