Recent Cases

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  Rights of the conditionally discharged patient

  12th January 2012 Secretary of State for Justice v. RB [2011] EWCA Civ. 1608 (Maurice Kay, Arden and Moses, LJJ). This was a long running case in which Simon Burrows acted for an elderly man who had been detained for any years in a secure psychiatric Hospital under a Mental Health Act...more
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  Primacy of guardianship over Mental Capacity Act

  12th January 2012 C (by the Official Solicitor) v. Blackburn with Darwen BC, A Care Home and Blackburn with Darwen NHS Trust [2011] EWHC 3321 (COP) ( Mr Justice Peter Jackson- sitting at Preston). An important case in which C was subject to guardianship under Mental Health Act and...more
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  “Where to draw the line”- the Court of Appeal on boundaries

  22nd December 2012 The Court of Appeal has recently endorsed a practical approach and guide to the judicial resolution of boundary disputes. Stephen Pritchett represented the successful appellants against Edward Bartley Jones QC and Sara O’Brien in an appeal from a decision of...more