— "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: Senior Judge Hilder lays down her baton; attorneys and failures to consult, and a research corner on anorexia and last resort options. (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: new OPG guidance, ‘third sector’ deputyship and a reverse indemnity tangle; (3) In the Practice and Procedure Report: notes from a fireside chat with DDJ Flanagan, and litigation capacity in the absence of subject-matter capacity; (4) In the Mental Health Matters Report: conditional discharge and deprivation of liberty – the new regime, and conditional discharge into hospital; (5) In the Children’s Capacity Report: parental responsibility and confinement – the need for an appellate judgment; (6) In the Wider Context Report: assisted dying / assisted suicide update, Strasbourg’s latest word on withdrawing life-sustaining treatment and mental capacity reform in New Zealand."
Full details available at: https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/39_Essex_Chambers,_%27Mental_Capacity_Report%27_(issue_158,_March_2026)?id=050326-2310