Housing | Wednesday 8 February 2017
‘Fixing our broken housing market’: Housing White Paper
In its Housing White Paper published yesterday, the Government concedes that the UK’s housing market is “broken” and promises a fresh wave of home-building and affordable housing to buy and rent.
Court of Protection, Mental health | Tuesday 7 February 2017
When gaps don’t breach Convention rights
R (OK) v FTT [2017] UKUT 22 (AAC), MHLO 3, 12 January 2017 Application signed by solicitor on behalf of patient lacking capacity is struck out.
Court of Protection | Tuesday 7 February 2017
A person who died in an intensive care unit, who had lacked capacity to consent to their treatment there, was not in “state detention” at the time of their death
Ferreira, R (On the Application Of) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner South London [2017] EWCA Civ 31, Arden and McFarlane LJJ and Cranston J, 26 January 2017 Maria Ferreira (Maria), who had Down’s syndrome and learning difficulties, died in an intensive c
Court of Protection | Tuesday 7 February 2017
Court of Protection Committal: Court of Appeal allows appeal against committal to prison
Devon County Council v Teresa Kirk [2016] EWCA Civ 1221, Sir James Munby P, Black , McFarlane LJJ, 5 December 2016
