A short introduction to the Court of Protection: what is it, what does it do, how does it do it, and when to go to it.

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An episode looking at the fundamentals of deprivation of liberty - how to identify one, and what to do where one has arisen.

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An episode looking at the fundamentals of best interests, assessment and determination.

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Boring but necessary caveat: nothing here constitutes legal advice.

An episode looking at the fundamentals of capacity and capacity assessment. For the original video with slides, see here.

In this episode, Dr Camilla Parker and I discuss the complexities of the law relating to deprivation of liberty in this area, and go through the practice guidance we have produced for Research in Practice.

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In the latest ‘in conversation with’, I talk to Lorraine Currie about her twin perspectives on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, as a social worker and MCA lead on the one hand, and, on the other, as a builder of invisible scaffolding for her daughter Grace, who has an acquired brain injury.

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In the latest ‘in conversation with’, Dr Lucy Stephenson and I discuss the Wellcome-funded PACT project to develop advance decision-making tools for people living with bipolar disorder. 

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In this conversation, I ask Dr Lucy Series about her Wellcome funded research, and we discuss, in particular, the long and complex history of confinement, and why Cheshire West may be a case of be careful what you wish for.

The original video can be found here.

In this episode, I learn about the work of Gill Loomes-Quinn, who (in her words) is a disabled scholar-activist, with a background in community advocacy. We discuss, in particular, her PhD research around advance decision-making in the context of disability (and her cat makes an important contribution right at the end).

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In this episode, I talk to Julian Sheather, special adviser in ethics and human rights to the British Medical Association. Amongst other topics we look at decision-making in relation to older adolescents, and grapple with some of the ethical underpinnings to the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

For the original video, see here.