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BBC News has this week reported of the widespread use of 15-minute care visits to the elderly and disabled. The Leonard Cheshire Disability charity says that these visits are not long enough to provide adequate care and “can force disabled people to...
The Court of Protection makes decisions on behalf of people that lack the capacity to do so themselves. The recent reporting of a case involving Wanda Maddocks has attracted a lot of publicity and alleged that the Court is far too secretive. The Court had...
An article in the Liverpool Echo this week tells of a further incident relating to the use of police taser guns. A Liverpool man is reported to have suffered a heart attack after being tasered by police. He was shot twice with a taser in September 2012...
The Court of Protection heard the recent case of An NHS Foundation Trust v M & K [2013] EWHC 2402, in which declarations were sought by the NHS Trust that the man (known throughout as M) should not be given Intensive Care treatment or CPR should there be...
The Court of Protection has last week heard a case in which an NHS Trust applied for a declaration that it would be in a woman’s best interests for her to undergo a formal diagnostic examination for cancer, ‘despite her long-standing fear of...
Last week another difficult and controversial case came before the Court of Protection, reported in the Telegraph. The case involved a woman who was the subject of an arranged marriage to a man with severe mental disabilities. Sandwell Metropolitan Borough...
The BBC has recently reported of numerous breaches in data protection by Local Authorities in Wales during 2012. The information was obtained following a Freedom of Information Act request. The breaches included several cases of posting personal data to...
A recent article on the Telegraph website told of a couple who are planning to sue the police following an armed raid by officers at their home in the search for a gun which, in fact, turned out to be a TV remote control. The residents were apparently...
An important Ombudsman’s report has been published this week following an investigation into Liverpool City Council and its Social Services department. The Ombudsman found that in 340 cases which it had been made aware of, the Council had not paid...
Significant changes in the Coronial system came into force on 25 July 2013. The new system will apply to all existing inquests not completed by 25 July 2013. Many core aspects of inquests remain the same, but there are several key areas of change. With...
