Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: alcohol and best interests, the price for failing to support, patient choice from the other side of capacity, and Bournewood brought to life.Click here to download the HWDOL Report.For all of ... Read more  

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: important decisions grappling with the meaning of best interests in the contexts of religious practices and delusional beliefs, and (finally) detailed statistics about s.21A/Re X cases.Click h... Read more  

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: standing in the shoes of P in a difficult decision as to cancer treatment, s.21A and the LAA, Welsh DoLS and Sir James Munby P on the warpath.Click here to download the Health, Welfare and Dep... Read more  

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the failed challenge to funding for DOLS, DOLS and conditions, and examples of judges grappling with both capacity and best interests in situations of complexity.Click here to download the Hea... Read more  

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the Court of Appeal overturns the conventional understanding of deprivation of liberty under the MHA; children, consent and deprivation of liberty, changes to inquest requirements in relation ... Read more  

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: the limits of wishes and feelings and a different take on Article 5.Click here to download the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report. For all of our reports, newsletters and cases... Read more  

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: positive obligations under Article 5, deprivation of liberty in the intensive care setting, and best interests in the context of childbirth and anorexia.Click here to download the Health, Welf... Read more  

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: DOLS and objections, the scope of s.21A appeals and best interests in treatment withdrawal.Download the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter. For all of our newsletters an... Read more  

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: the new COPDOL 10 form comes into force on 1 December, an MN-style case management decision, Baker J on life and death  and Strasbourg's latest on deprivation of liberty.Download the Healt... Read more  

In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: getting tangled up in ineligibility, survey and statistical data relating to DOLS and news of a new COPDOL10 form.Download the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter. For a... Read more