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Court of Protection case update: May 2025
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Producing robust capacity assessments and the approaches to assessing capacity

Disability discrimination and proportionality in housing management

Cross-border deprivation of liberty

Dealing with unexplained deaths and inquests

Court of Protection case update: May 2025
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Setting care home fees
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The High Court has quashed a decision by a city council to set an annual increase to care home fees below-inflation. Philip Rule KC looks at the lessons from the judgment.

Is Omeprazole the new EDS?
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Innocent explanations for allegations of inflicted or non-accidental injury: Tina and Kate discuss the dark corners of medicine, science, the unknown unknowns and the wider canvas.

Could this be the end for local authority-provided residential care?
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Mike Clifford discusses the trend of local authorities selling or closing their residential care facilities and what it means for the future of adult social care.

“On a DoLS”
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Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) reports on some mythbusting by what he says was a (rightly) exasperated Court of Protection.

It’s all about the care plan
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A couple of recent Court of Protection cases illustrate two key themes, writes Sarah Erwin-Jones. They are that the care plan is king – get that clear first, and that openness, transparency and compliance with court directions is essential for local authorities.

Court of Protection case update: January 2025
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Sarah Hutchinson rounds up the latest Court of Protection judgments of interest to practitioners.
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