Court of Protection | Monday 31 July 2017
Applications before the court concerning the degree to which a person without capacity should be assisted in observing Islamic religious custom and practice in a supported care home
IH (Observance of Muslim Practice) [2017] EWCOP 9, 12 June 2017, Cobb J The first application was in respect of adherence to fasting during Ramadan and the second in respect of the trimming of IH’s axillary and pubic hair in accordance with Islamic cul
Court of Protection | Monday 31 July 2017
S21A MCA 2005 not appropriate where the central issue was whether CANH life-sustaining treatment was in a person’s best interests
Director of Legal Aid Casework (1) Secretaries of State for Health and for Justice (2) The Official Solicitor (3) v Briggs [2017] EWCA Civ 1169, 31 July 2017, President of the Queen’s Bench Division (Sir Brian Leveson), Lady Justice King and Lord Justice
Children, Health care, Mental health | Thursday 3 August 2017
Sir James Munby: The nation will have “blood on our hands” if an NHS bed cannot be found for a teenager with acute mental health issues
Re X (A Child) (No 3) [2017] EWHC 2036 (Fam), 3 August 2017
Children | Monday 31 July 2017
High Court finds local authority breached Children Act 1989 for failing to carry out lawful assessment of autistic child
R (on the application of AC and SH) v London Borough of Lambeth Council [2017] EWHC 1796 (Admin) Case NO: CO/84/2017, 14 July 2017 The High Court has found that Lambeth London Borough Council failed to carry out a sufficiently wide, statutory guidance-
