Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership v WA [2020] EWCOP 37 [2020] 7 WLUK 271

A patient who was refusing nutrition and hydration lacked mental capacity to conduct proceedings within the meaning of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 s.3(1)(c) where his traumatic past had affected him to the point that he had become fixated on the fact that the Home Office had re-assigned his date of birth, which he perceived as an assault on his identity.

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