Mental health

Where coercion meets care: Keith Wilding discusses the benefits of tribunal hearings in the mental health context

Keith Wilding believes there is much to recommend an expansion of the tribunal adjudication system

Naomi O’Higgins explains the role & responsibilities of deputies under the Mental Capacity Act 2005

Birmingham City Council v D and another [2016] EWCOP 8, [2016] All ER (D) 05 (Feb)

Re NRA and others [2015] EWCOP 59, [2015] All ER (D) 122 (Sep)

Phillipa Bruce-Kerr explains how deprivation of liberty cases overlap with the private client arena

Tim Spencer-Lane reports on a ground-breaking Mental Health Bill

Tim Spencer-Lane provides an overview of the Law Commission’s review of the deprivation of liberty safeguards

Liberate social policy from the influence of human rights, says Jon Holbrook