Mental Capacity Report - October 2024

Welcome to the October 2024 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include:

1. In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: what to do where there is no reliable evidence of P’s wishes and feelings;
2. In the Property and Affairs Report: gifts, attorneys and deputies;
3. In the Practice and Procedure Report: the perfect as the enemy of the good, and what to do when the situation changes;
4. In the Mental Health Matters Report: the human rights consequences of outsourcing in the mental health context;
5. In the Wider Context Report: the Law Commission consults on disabled children’s social care law and the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights balances Articles 2 and 8 in the medical treatment context;
6. In the Scotland Report: AWI legislative reform on the cards?

There is one plug this month, for a free digital trial of the newly relaunched Court of Protection Law Reports (now published by Butterworths.  For a walkthrough of one of the reports, see here.

You can find our past issues, our case summaries, and more on our dedicated sub-site here, where you can also sign up to the Mental Capacity Report

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