# Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 149, April 2025)

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— "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: a masterclass in determining a particularly complex set of capacity questions; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: statutory will applications and publicity; OPG guidance on family care payments, and the bond provider saga continues; (3) In the Practice and Procedure Report: a helpful reminder of elephant traps for the unwary as regards when time runs for purposes of appealing decisions; (4) In the Mental Health Matters Report: the Mental Health Bill progresses, and the CQC reports on the MHA 1983 in 2023-24; (5) In the Children’s Capacity Report: a new BMA toolkit to help with capacity and other issues in relation to those aged 16 and 17, and back to the vexed question of parental consent to confinement; (6) In the Wider Context Report: the inherent jurisdiction rebuffed in a personal injury case, recent research of relevance, and strong views from the CRPD Committee on medical assistance in dying and the 2000 Hague Convention; (7) In the Scotland Report: what is appealable in the AWI context, and the complexities of the position of those aged 16 and 17 in Scotland."

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