The rise in legal orders giving control over finance, property and welfare safeguards for adults without the capacity to make their own decisions is “concerning”, a watchdog has said. Guardianship
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A man should be allowed to pocket £6 million of his mentally incapacitated mother’s £18.6 million fortune for tax reasons, a judge in a specialist court has decided. The 72-year-old
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A ruling that a man with an extensive brain injury should be allowed to die without his family going before a judge has been upheld by the UK’s highest court.
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A judge in the specialist Court of Protection has ruled, without analysing evidence at a hearing, that a woman in a permanent vegetative state should be allowed to die. Mr
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Peers have backed reform of safeguards for vulnerable people detained in care homes or hospitals without the mental capacity to consent to the arrangements. But despite giving the Mental Capacity
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The UK’s most senior judge has called for an overhaul of mental health laws. Supreme Court president Lady Hale said it is “time for yet another Mental Health Act” to
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The NHS will be able to make decisions to deprive people of their liberty under new law, health officials have announced. The current Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) system has
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Judges in a specialist court have been asked to decide whether a woman who suffered brain damage in a car crash which left her husband and two eldest children dead
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A family court judge has raised concern about the welfare of a woman with a low IQ who has had a baby taken from her care and placed for adoption.
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A judge has given doctors the go-ahead to perform a caesarean section on a woman who lacks the mental capacity to make decisions about treatment, following a hearing in a
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