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The Court of Appeal have held that the rights of a woman who died following a DNR notice being put in her medical records without her being consulted were breached. The case highlights the legal duty that hospitals have to consult patients before making DNR...
The Law Society Gazette has reported that Judge Sir James Munby, president of the family division of the High Court has warned the the Court of Protection is likely to see a ten - fold increase in it's work load in relation to...
Details of a case heard in April by the Court of Protection relating to the removal of an elderly woman from her house into a care home have recently been reported. District Judge Mort described the handling of the matter by the local authority in question...
Our specialist Court of Protection team recently obtained final Order in a Court of Protection dispute relating to welfare. The application was by a Local Authority (LA), for a declaration that it would be in P’s best interests to move out of his...
Resource website Community Care has published an analysis of 55 local authorities adult social care budgets for 2014-2015 . Given ongoing cuts to public funding , local authorities are under pressure to continue to cut their budgets. In the Community Care...
The BBC is currently showing a documentary series about the complex and often harrowing decisions that need to be made in relation to the care of older people within the community. The latest episode, shown last week, highlighted the...
The Children and Families Act 2014 became law on the 22nd April 2014 and has been hailed as the greatest shake up to the Special Educational Needs system in 30 years. A further Code of Practice for Special Education Needs was published on the 16th April...
A man with schizophrenia, known as MS, who believes he is a prophet ‘one level down from the holy trinity’ has been deemed to have the capacity to donate 10% of a recent inheritance totalling almost £70,000 as a tithe to the Church of...
Newly released Home Office figures have revealed that Taser use by the Police in the south of England doubled between 2012 and 2013. The devices were drawn 998 times as opposed to 433 times in 2012 and were actually discharged 192 times in 2013 compared...
The Law Society has proposed that human rights and business training should form part of legal training requirements in line with the UN guiding principles on the same. The proposal appears in a set of recommendations published in March by the Society's...
