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New guidance issued on facilitating participation of ‘P’ and vulnerable persons in Court of Protection proceedings

United Kingdom - November 18 2016 Charles J has recently issued guidance on facilitating participation of 'P' and vulnerable persons. It is intended to allow sharing of good practice

BIA survey

United Kingdom - October 10 2016 Edge Training has recently conducted a national survey of 92 best interests' assessors (BIAs), triggered by the publication of the Law Commission's

Capacity, facility and circumvention

United Kingdom - April 13 2016 In Ritchie v Nelson 2016 CSOH 35, decided on 4th March 2016, Lord Clarke granted decree of reduction of a Disposition in favour of the defender by

Syred: the consequences of rome II’s application to an English claimant’s RTA in Poland

United Kingdom - April 15 2016 The claimant, Robert Syred, was a successful English building surveyor. In 2010, while he and his then girlfriend were visiting her family in Poland

More efficient and effective local plan making

United Kingdom - April 19 2016 The Local Plans Expert Group was appointed by the Minister for Housing and Planning, Brandon Lewis, in September 2015. Its report proposes widespread

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Competence, understanding and influence

United Kingdom - November 18 2016 In W (A Child) 2016 EWCA Civ 1051, the Court of Appeal had to grapple again with the question of when it is appropriate for a child to part company

Lord Neuberger on the role of a constitutional court

European Union, United Kingdom - November 18 2016 On 14th October 2016 Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, delivered the second biennial Lord Rodger Memorial Lecture

Short Note: Contesting influence

United Kingdom - November 18 2016 A recent case (Edkins v Hopkins 2016 EWHC 2542 (Ch), a decision of HHJ Jarman QC sitting as a judge of the High Court) illustrates just how hard it

European Parliament Report on Protection of Vulnerable Adults

European Union, United Kingdom - November 18 2016 This study, produced by the European Parliamentary Research Service, supports a legislative initiative on the protection of vulnerable adults

A major step forward in CRPD compliance by the German Federal Constitutional Court?

European Union, Germany - November 18 2016 Legislatures and courts worldwide, when they consider medical treatment and other measures in the context of intellectual

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