The government announced in April 2023, that the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) (initially passed within the Mental Capacity Amendment Act 2019) will not be implemented in the foreseeable...

This Supreme Court case now a decade past, introduced the pivotal ‘acid test’ comprising a three-part test to determine whether an individual is deprived of their liberty...

Welcome to our latest Newsletter of 2023, detailing everything you need to know about the latest operational and corporate legal news and updates.
In this newsletter, we will be covering issues surrou

The dust has now settled since the government’s announcement in April 2023, that the Liberty Protection Safeguards will not now be introduced this side of a general election, which it is anticipated will be held in autumn 2024...

Here is the round-up of the key Court of Protection cases from the first half of this year (January to June 2023), in which we believe our readers will be most interested. Please follow the link within the case summary to access the full judgment. Contact our team to discuss any particular case in more detail...

A number of important legislative and ground breaking decisions either coming into force or handed down over the last few weeks, top of my list being...

At the beginning of April 2023, the Department of Health and Social Care announced that the Liberty Protection Safeguards (also known as LPS) will now not be introduced this side of a general election, which is anticipated to be in Autumn 2024. In these videos we consider the most important questions surrounding the current Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards scheme, the main issues the LPS was designed to resolve and the implications for care providers on the LPS not going ahead..

In April 2023, the Department of Health and Social Care announced that the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) will not now be introduced this side of a general election, which it is anticipated will be held in autumn 2024. The impact of this delay means that the LPS are up in the air altogether – it is not clear whether any incoming government would have the appetite to resurrect the reforms. Even if they do, the earliest possible implementation date would now seem to be 2026 or 2027, given the extensive work that would be needed to prepare...

Welcome to our latest Newsletter of 2023, detailing everything you need to know about the latest operational and corporate legal news and updates...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today announced that the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) will not go ahead this side of a general election (anticipated to be in Autumn 2024)...

This webinar provides an update on the progress towards implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards...

Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) were established on 1 July 2022 taking over the functions of former Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). In our earlier article we considered five key questions occupying the minds of newly appointed members of ICBs shortly after establishment...