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The Wider Context - June 2025

In the Wider Context Report: what happens if you never had litigation capacity and new books.For all of our reports, newsletters and cases please visit our Mental Capacity Law Resource Centre.Click below to download the Wider Context Report. ... Read more  

The Wider Context - May 2025

In the Wider Context Report: the other party’s interest in litigation capacity, how far landlords are supposed to go in hoarding cases, and a new Convention on the rights of older adults on the cards?For all of our reports, newsletters and cases plea... Read more  

The Wider Context - April 2025

In the Wider Context Report: the inherent jurisdiction rebuffed in a personal injury case, recent research of relevance, and strong views from the CRPD Committee on medical assistance in dying and the 2000 Hague Convention;For all of our reports, new... Read more  

The Wider Context - March 2025

In the Wider Context Report: the updated Code of Practice on diagnosing death and restraint in Northern Ireland.For all of our reports, newsletters and cases please visit our Mental Capacity Law Resource Centre.Click below to download the Wider Conte... Read more  

The Wider Context - February 2025

In the Wider Context Report: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and capacity, CCTV and care homes, and using the arts to be more creative in capacity assessment.For all of our reports, newsletters and cases please visit our Mental Capacity ... Read more  

The Wider Context - December 2024

In the Wider Context Report: Assisted dying / assisted suicide developments, capacity and surrogacy and two important Strasbourg cases.For all of our reports, newsletters and cases please visit our Mental Capacity Law Resource Centre.Click below to d... Read more  

The Wider Context - November 2024

In the Wider Context Report: Strasbourg suggests that the Supreme Court was wrong in the Maguire case.For all of our reports, newsletters and cases please visit our Mental Capacity Law Resource Centre.Click below to download the Wider Context Report.... Read more  

The Wider Context - October 2024

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.For all of our reports, newsletters... Read more  

The Wider Context - September 2024

In the Wider Context Report: the limits of Article 3 in the context of the inherent jurisdiction, the CQC and covert medication and Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill. For all of our reports, newsletters and cases please visit our Mental Capacity L... Read more  

The Wider Context - July 2024

In the Wider Context Report: local authority consent to confinement, the Irish courts continue to grapple with the consequences of the framework, and Strasbourg pronounces on assisted dying. For all of our reports, newsletters and cases please visit... Read more  
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