— “Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: capacity, presumptions and the Care Act 2014; and the most comprehensive first instance ‘run’ at AGNI so far; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: deputies and direct payments, and the Court of Protection and the validity of wills; (3) In the Practice and Procedure Report: the AGNI effect starts to show in the statistics; (4) In the Mental Health Matters Report: HSSIB’s investigation into mental health care in the emergency department; (5) In the Children’s Capacity Report: desperate deprivation of liberty and consenting to confinement; (6) In the Wider Context Report: Anglo-Welsh legal differences and asserting your own capacity; (7) In the Scotland Report: what listening to children tells us about listening to adults.”
Full details available at: https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/39_Essex_Chambers,_%27Mental_Capacity_Report%27_(issue_164,_October_2026)?id=091126-1344