Friday, 15 April 2016

Anorexia: Persist with Treatment or Allow to Die? Recent Case Law

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(Post contains references to weight loss and BMI) In the last few years there have been a couple of judgments from the Court of Protect...
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Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Sinking into a Legal Quagmire

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I was on AMHP duty recently when I received a request for an urgent assessment under the Mental Health Act. It had come from the local cr...
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Thursday, 17 March 2016

When can someone not related to you be regarded as your Nearest Relative under the MHA?

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Related or not? Our local AMHP service was greatly exercised recently trying to decide the nearest relative of a particular patient who...
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Ask the AMHP: This Week Sec.117 Aftercare v. Continuing Healthcare

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Ask The Masked AMHP for the answers to your thorny MHA related problems. He might know the answer. Or not. The Masked AMHP's postbag...
Thursday, 3 March 2016

Guest Blog: Recent case law on moving people lacking capacity from home to other accommodation

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This week, I am posting a guest blog. An AMHP has written an interesting analysis of recent case law (Re AG 2015) posing questions rela...
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Thursday, 14 January 2016

What is “Mental Disorder” Within the Meaning of the Mental Health Act?

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Stephen Fry simulating the "head clutch" stock photos used to illustrate any article involving mental disorder The legal def...
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Friday, 11 December 2015

Review: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: A Best Interest Assessor Time Study

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Cornwall Council’s much anticipated study , compiled and written by Emma Goodall and Paul Wilkins, was published at the beginning of Dec...
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