Mental Capacity Law and Policy

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• Mental Capacity Law and Policy

  Mental Capacity Law and Policy Welcome The reach of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is immense – any of us at any time could find ourselves incapable of taking decisions about our health, our welfare, or...

• Capacity and suicide – Mental Capacity Law and Policy

  [Warning: this post contains a legal analysis of the question whether a person can be said to have capacity to take their own life, and is written in response to numerous requests. It is not intend…

• Articles and papers – Mental Capacity Law and Policy

  On this page you can find links to a selection of articles and papers that I have written in the field of mental capacity law.  The majority are open access: if you need access to any which are beh…

• Books – Mental Capacity Law and Policy

  If you want to read more by me, and can face paying, you may want to look at:  The Mental Capacity Act in context Mental Capacity Law and Practice (Jordans, 4th edition, 2018, co-author), an author…

• Updated NHS guidance on MHA and ‘supporting systems’ – and Code of Practice – Mental Capacity Law

  NHSE-I published on 19 May updated guidance on the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the use of the Mental Health Act (MHA) and supporting systems to safeguard the legal rights of pe…

• The MHA, force-feeding and best interests – Mental Capacity Law and Policy

  In JK v A Local Health Board [2019] EWHC 67 (Fam), Lieven J had to grapple with the intersection between the MCA, the MHA and the inherent jurisdiction in addressing the question of whether it woul…