— "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: Townsend updated, sex before the Court of Protection again, and a profoundly disturbing report on dementia in acute hospitals; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: new OPG investigation requirements and the consequences thereof; (3) In the Practice and Procedure Report: importance guidance on instructing experts, when habitual residence can be revisited, and a very useful new book on coercive control; (4) In the Mental Health Matters Report: the legal gaps for those in mental health crisis in ED and misunderstandings of the MCA in the mental health context; (5) In the Children’s Capacity Report: deprivation of liberty of children in statute and in unregulated placements and what procedural fairness (does) not require in assessment; (6) In the Wider Context Report: the MCA and suicide, and new guidance on consenting to clinical trials; (7) In the Scotland Report: an update on the new AWI accreditation programme being run by the Law Society of Scotland."
Full details available at: https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/39_Essex_Chambers,_%27Mental_Capacity_Report%27_(issue_160,_May_2026)?id=050626-2234