Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
In Knowsley MBC (9 June 2014), the Local Government Ombudsman found the Council to be at fault for failing to have a support plan for a man with…
Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
On an appeal as to how the court should determine an application by parents for an injunction under the Human Rights Act 1998 to prevent a local…
Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 has introduced a new section 26H into the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990…
Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
This is the follow up to a decision of Peter Jackson J [2014] EWCOP 454 relating to the question of whether it was lawful to withhold blood…
Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
Between July 2005 and January 2006, L.M., who suffered from a psychotic disorder, was admitted to closed and open wards in two psychiatric hospitals…
Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
In the Newsletter’s April 2014 issue comment was made about the draft Mental Health (Scotland) Bill (amending the Mental Health (Care and…
Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
At first instance [2013] NIQB 77, Treacy J held that guardianship contained an implicit power to prevent the person leaving their residence. In our…
Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
We have covered the previous episodes in this rather depressing story in earlier issues of our newsletter. In very summary form, the London Borough…
Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
In this judicial review, Collins J scrutinised the approach adopted by the Director of Legal Aid Casework to applications for Exceptional Case…
Thirty Nine Essex Street | United Kingdom | 1 Jul 2014
This is the third reported case in these proceedings. The first involved the imposition of a Hadkinson Order on B’s father and the second the…