If you’ve been appointed as the Relevant Person’s Representative (RPR) for a person subject to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, you are required to identify whether the person wishes to, or would wish to, object to the care arrangements. This isn’t difficult if the person is making a genuine and consistent objection but can be […]
The use of the internet is becoming an increasingly popular method of communicating with other. Friends, family, work colleagues, strangers with whom we’ve developed a shared interest and dare I suggest, people in the same house as us all receive our attention using an ever increasing range of social media platforms. I was, at this […]
The Government has recently tabled its amendments to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill ahead of the report stage of the Bill in the House of Lords on 21st November 2018. This isn’t the amendments in their entirety but the headlines (which are a shift in the direction of the Law Commission’s original proposals) are: Extending […]