3 January Case Updates Re SV [2022] EWCOP 52 Capacity cases, Psychiatry, Eating disorder, 11. Report Writing “Can an Irish citizen be sent to England for treatment of an eating disorder?”
20 September Case Updates Hull City Council v KF [2022] EWCOP 33 Capacity cases, Psychiatry, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Capacity to have sexual relations
26 August Case Updates Aderounmu v Colvin [2021] EWHC 2293 (QB) Capacity cases, Capacity to litigate, Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements Relevance: Psychiatry Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychology Topics: Capacity Litigation capacity
23 August Case Updates R v Rebelo [2021] EWCA Crim 306, 2021 WL 00848726 Capacity cases, Psychiatry, Gross negligence, Free will, Voluntariness, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence Relevance: General Psychiatry Topics: Capacity Voluntariness Free will Gross negligence manslaughter
15 June Case Updates NB v MI [2021] EWHC 224 (Fam) Capacity cases, Psychology, Psychiatry, Capacity to marry, Wisdom, 06. Rules and Regulations The case: an application for a declaration of non-recognition of a marriage formed on 1 June 2013 in Pakistan under sharia law. In 1995 the applicant at the age of six was involved in a major car accident and suffered a catastrophic brain injury. There was understandably a serious impact on the applicant’s mental health and cognitive functioning.
15 February Case Updates AMDC v AG [2021] EWCOP 5 Capacity cases, Psychiatry, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Topic: Capacity
15 February Case Updates A Local Authority v AA [2020] EWCOP 66 Capacity cases, Psychiatry, Autism, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Capacity Autism Asperger syndrome Auto-erotic asphyxia
15 December Case Updates DP v London Borough of Hillingdon [2020] EWCOP 45, 2020 WL 05819325 Capacity cases, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Psychiatry Issues: Capacity assessments Capacity to decide on accommodation
6 October Case Updates GSTT, SLAM v R [2020] EWCOP 4, 2020 WL 00476197 Capacity cases, Obstetrics, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Capacity assessments Obstetrics Topic: Fluctuating capacity Anticipatory declaration
6 October Case Updates Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership v WA [2020] EWCOP 37 [2020] 7 WLUK 271 Capacity cases, Mental Health, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Capacity Mental health