Social Welfare Update: Damages of £143,000 for unlawful deprivation of liberty of incapacitous care home resident upheld
Thursday 25 Feb 2021
The comparators for damages for unlawful deprivation of liberty of persons lacking mental capacity are few. In Essex County Council v RF & others [2015] EWCOP 1, DJ Mort made…
Capacity to decide to engage in sexual relations – application for a prospective declaration of incapacity rejected
Thursday 1 Jul 2021
Facts DY, aged 18, had diagnoses of two chromosomal duplicities, a moderate learning disability and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. DY also had developmental trauma disorder or complex post-traumatic stress disorder….
International Women’s Day 2021 – Choose to Challenge
Monday 8 Mar 2021
On 2 March 1955, 15 year old Claudette Colvin felt ‘history had [her] glued to the seat’. As a result, she refused to move when the bus driver asked her…
