Compendiums

Welcome to the June 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include:In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the court is not a rubber stamp for clinicians and what does it mean to represent P’s interests;In the Property a... Read more  

Welcome to the May 2025 Mental Capacity Report. It is our 150th issue, and, to mark this, Tor and Alex have recorded a discussion reflecting on how the report (then the newsletter) came to be back in 2010, and on how the law and practice have evolved... Read more  

Welcome to the April 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include:In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: a masterclass in determining a particularly complex set of capacity questions;In the Property and Affairs Report... Read more  

Welcome to the March 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include:(1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: insight into the proper place of insight, best interests decision-making and good clinical governance, and a... Read more  

Welcome to the February 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include:In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: myth-busting about DoLS and strong words about assessment of capacity of D/deaf people;In the Property and Af... Read more  

Welcome to the December 2024 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include:In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the Court of Appeal grapples again with sexual capacity, and important reminders of best interests as good go... Read more  

Welcome to the November 2024 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include:In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: anticipatory declarations; systemic failure in considering PDOC patients, and the CQC and DoLS.In the Propert... Read more  

Welcome to the October 2024 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include:In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: what to do where there is no reliable evidence of P’s wishes and feelings;In the Property and Affairs Report: ... Read more  

Welcome to the September 2024 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the Court of Appeal on belief and capacity, and both sexual and medical complexities before the courts; ... Read more  

Welcome to the July 2024 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: sexual capacity complexities, wishes and feelings in the balance, and finding the P in a PDOC case; In the P... Read more