![Helen Curtis](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/956.jpg)
Court of Protection, Mental health | Tuesday 7 February 2017
When gaps don’t breach Convention rights
R (OK) v FTT [2017] UKUT 22 (AAC), MHLO 3, 12 January 2017 Application signed by solicitor on behalf of patient lacking capacity is struck out.
![Bethan Harris](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/802.jpg)
Court of Protection | Tuesday 7 February 2017
A person who died in an intensive care unit, who had lacked capacity to consent to their treatment there, was not in “state detention” at the time of their death
Ferreira, R (On the Application Of) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner South London [2017] EWCA Civ 31, Arden and McFarlane LJJ and Cranston J, 26 January 2017 Maria Ferreira (Maria), who had Down’s syndrome and learning difficulties, died in an intensive c
Court of Protection | Tuesday 7 February 2017
Court of Protection Committal: Court of Appeal allows appeal against committal to prison
Devon County Council v Teresa Kirk [2016] EWCA Civ 1221, Sir James Munby P, Black , McFarlane LJJ, 5 December 2016
![Maria Moodie](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/691.jpg)
Children | Tuesday 7 February 2017
Interim Statutory Guidance published on Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (‘ICTA’)
Interim Statutory Guidance published on Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (‘ICTA’) The statutory guidance is published pursuant to s.49 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and is effective from January 2017. It provides guidance to the three Early Ado