# Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 154, October 2025) **URL:** \ **Category:** MHLO updates\ **Created:** [6 October 2025 08:01 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/mental-capacity-law-newsletter-39-essex-chambers-mental-capacity-report-issue-154-october-2025/4349 "2025-10-06T08:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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— "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: time-specificity of capacity (again), a Welsh primer on key caselaw and urban myths around s.4B MCA 2005; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: two guest articles from new members of the Court of Protection on attorney elephant traps; (3) In the Practice and Procedure Report: the purpose of transparency and the length of restrictions, and the contempt consequences of being found to have capacity; (4) In the Mental Health Matters Report: progress of the Mental Health Bill and the CRPD and the United Kingdom in a stand-off; (5) In the Children’s Capacity Report: the Law Commission’s Disabled Children’s Social Care report and improving the outcomes of children in complex situations; (6) In the Scotland Report: an update on AWI reform." * * * Full details available at: [https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/39\_Essex\_Chambers,\_%27Mental\_Capacity\_Report%27\_(issue\_154,\_October\_2025)?id=061025-0801](https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/39_Essex_Chambers,_%27Mental_Capacity_Report%27_(issue_154,_October_2025)?id=061025-0801)