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Court of Protection, Mental health | Thursday 25 May 2017
Deprivation of liberty and Community Treatment Orders (CTOs): MM and PJ decided
SSJ v MM; Welsh Ministers v PJ [2017] EWCA Civ 194, [2017] MHLO 16, 29 March 2017. A Community Treatment Order can be a statutory alternative to compulsory detention even though it amounts to an objective deprivation of liberty, but a capacitous patie
Children | Wednesday 17 May 2017
LAG: Protecting missing child victims of trafficking
A number of cases have highlighted that not enough is being done to protect trafficked children at risk of going missing. Maria Moodie and Silvia Nicolaou Garcia discuss the legal protections available in England and Wales and report on the wider problems
Housing | Thursday 6 April 2017
Succession rules favouring married couples and civil partners not discriminatory
Turley v London Borough of Wandsworth & Anor [2017] EWCA Civ 189, 24 March 2017
Housing | Thursday 6 April 2017
Security of tenure: only or principal home
Dove v London Borough of Havering [2017] EWCA Civ 156, 22 March 2017
Housing | Friday 31 March 2017
Introductory tenancies: notice requirements
London Borough of Islington v Dyer [2017] EWCA Civ 150, 22 March 2017.
Housing | Friday 31 March 2017
Article 8 and canal boats
Jones v Canal and River Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 135, 7 March 2017.
Housing | Friday 31 March 2017
Allocation: reduced priority for overcrowded private sector tenants not unlawful
R (Osman) v London Borough of Harrow [2017] EWHC 274 (Admin), 21 February 2017.
Court of Protection | Wednesday 8 February 2017
Teresa Kirk appeal: order set aside as futile in the face of Ms Kirk’s refusal to comply
Teresa Kirk v Devon County Council [2017] EWCA Civ 34, Sir James Munby P, 30 January 2017 The court approved a consent order compromising the appeal of Teresa Kirk against the order requiring her to secure the return of MM from Portugal. For the facts
