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Under the law as it stands, any individual who is detained without authorisation under the statutory scheme is regarded as having been falsely imprisoned. This has sent alarm bells ringing ever [...]

The case had to determine whether parents can give substituted consent for a child aged 16 or 17 to be confined in a residential placement, as the consequences of such confinement without valid [...]

This is an important case which considers the State’s obligations under Article 5 ECHR in relation to whether a deprivation of liberty can be created when an incapacitated person’s care regime is [...]

This book is the first collective guidance on this subject and brings together under one umbrella the Code of Practice of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards), the Law [...]