The Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill has today (19 January 2023) published its pre-legislative scrutiny report on the draft Bill.  This podcast is a walkthrough of its conclusions and recommendations.

For the original video, see here.

In a slightly different ‘in conversation with,’ in that the tables are turned half-way though and I’m on the spot, Dr Gareth Owen and I reflect on our work on the Mental Health and Justice Project, and discuss the need for (and complexities of) interdisciplinarity in mental health research, drawing on a chapter in a forthcoming book.  We then turn to a paper I led on - just published in the Medical Law Review - about whether there has been a paradigm shift in mental capacity law brought about by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, if not, why not, and whether more recent developments mean that it is possible to put some of the more unhelpful debates behind us.  We also spend a few minutes at the end looking at new challenges for the concept of capacity posed by moves towards assisted dying/assisted suicide.

If you want to come in half-way through our discussion and think about capacity paradigms, stay here. If you want the full discussion, go to the earlier episode.

For the original video, see here.

Our earlier discussion can be found here.

For more about interdisciplinarity in the MHJ context, see here.

The Medical Law Review paper accompanies research-based guidance in relation to capacity assessments available here.

In a slightly different ‘in conversation with,’ in that the tables are turned half-way though and I’m on the spot, Dr Gareth Owen and I reflect on our work on the Mental Health and Justice Project, and discuss the need for (and complexities of) interdisciplinarity in mental health research, drawing on a chapter in a forthcoming book.  We then turn to a paper I led on - just published in the Medical Law Review - about whether there has been a paradigm shift in mental capacity law brought about by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, if not, why not, and whether more recent developments mean that it is possible to put some of the more unhelpful debates behind us.  We also spend a few minutes at the end looking at new challenges for the concept of capacity posed by moves towards assisted dying/assisted suicide.

For the full discussion, join us here. If you want to come in half-way through and think about capacity paradigms, listen to the next episode.

For the original video, see here.

Our earlier discussion can be found here.

For more about interdisciplinarity in the MHJ context, see here.

The Medical Law Review paper accompanies research-based guidance in relation to capacity assessments available here.

In this shedinar, I discuss the genesis, findings and headline points of the Judging Values project led by Camillia Kong with Camillia and Professor Penny Cooper.

For the original video, see here.

For more on the research, including the papers and videos that we discuss, see the project website here.  For the final project report, see here.

In the first shedinar of 2023, I have done a review of the key cases from the Court of Protection (with one from the Court of Appeal and a 'watch this space' from the Supreme Court) from 2022.

The original video can be found here.

Prompted by a number of situations recently in which I have been concerned that professionals may not always know how to read a Court of Protection judgment and whether, and how, it applies to a similar-sounding situation in front of them (especially reading coverage of this case), I’ve recorded a short (15) minute shedinar on the subject.

For the original video, see here.

In this 'in conversation,' I talk to PhD student David Mason about the research that the King's College London ReSpect Lab is undertaking with autistic people into decision-making styles and stresses, and how this research can assist in thinking better about mental capacity assessments in the context of autism. 

For the original video, see here.

In this episode, I am joined, not in the shed (under repair), by Professors Jill Stavert and Colin McKay, both members of the executive team of the Scottish Mental Health Law Review chaired by (Lord) John Scott QC. The Review reported in September 2022, and our discussion explores why the Review was needed, how it was carried out, and its key recommendations.  We look in particular at what it means to carry out a review seeking to implement positive rights in the mental health and capacity sphere. Note: the tin cans and string between London and Edinburgh gave up briefly at a couple of moments, for which apologies.

For the original video, see here.

In the latest ‘in conversation with,’ Dr Lade Smith CBE and I talk about advance choice documents in the mental health context, their potential, and the prerequisites for making them work.

The original video can be found here.

In this ‘in conversation’ with Professor Andy Phippen, we talk about online safeguarding, capacity, and why Andy really dislikes the term ‘online safety’.

For the original video, see here.

The book that Andy has written with Professor Emma Bond we discuss is this: Safeguarding Adults Online – Perspectives on Rights to Participation.