REPORTED CASES
- Re AC and GC (Capacity; Hoarding; Best Interests) [2022] EWCOP 39: the relevant hoarding decision relates to managing one's items and belongings, with guidance given on relevant information.
- Secretary of State for Justice v A Local Authority & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 1527: the leading case concerning the legality of carers facilitating sexual services for P.
- Re AA (Capacity to Consent to Sexual Practices) [2020] EWCOP 66: capacity and autoerotic asphyxiation.
- SM v Livewell Southwest CIC (Mental health) [2020] UKUT 191 (AAC): establishes the process to follow when an incapacitated patient detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 wishes to challenge their detention.
- Wakefield Metropolitan District Council & Anor v DN & Anor [2019] EWHC 2306 (Fam): inherent jurisdiction and the detention of those with capacity.
- Re A (Capacity: Social Media and Internet Use: Best Interests) [2019] EWCOP 2: established the test for capacity to use the internet and social media (acted pro bono).
- Re KT [2018] EWCOP 1: established the use of Visitors to ensure a human rights compliant procedure for authorising deprivations of liberty for uncontested, unbefriended cases.
- N v ACCG [2017] UKSC 22: best interests and Court of Protection case management powers (Supreme Court).
- Mrs P v Rochdale Borough Council [2016] EWCOP B1: DoLS challenge; financial deputyship.
- North Yorkshire CC v MAG [2016] EWCOP 5 and [2015] EWCOP 64: conditions of detention.
- Re X (Deprivation of Liberty) [2014] EWCOP 25: established the streamlined procedure for judicial authorisations to deprive liberty.
- P v Cheshire West and Chester Council; P and Q v Surrey County Council [2014] UKSC 19: meaning of “deprivation of liberty” in Article 5 ECHR.
- A Local Authority v SY [2013] EWHC 3485: non-marriage declaration under the inherent jurisdiction; social workers can be eminently suited to provide evidence of incapacity in COP proceedings.
- GA v Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB [2013] UKUT 280 (AAC): consent and community treatment orders.
- P v M (Vulnerable Adult) [2011] EWHC 2778: emphasises the emotional component in the best interests analysis.
- B (Deprivation of Liberty: Validity of Authorisation) [2010] EWHC 2508: guidance on procedural matters concerning the deprivation of liberty safeguards
- G v E and Manchester City Council and F [2010] E.W.H.C. 621; [2010] EWHC 1115; [2010] EWCA Civ 822; [2010] EWHC 2042; [2010] EWHC 2512: breach of Articles 5 and 8 ECHR; deputyship; costs; Winterwerp.
- R. (L and Others) v Manchester City Council [2002] 1 FLR 43: one of the first successful uses of the Human Rights Act 1998.
PUBLICATIONS
Law Books
Legal Journals
Law Books
- Chapter 9 ‘The tests for incapacity’ and chapter 10 ‘Care and treatment of those lacking decision-making capacity’ in Jean McHale and Judith Laing (eds), Principles of Medical Law (4th ed.) (2017), Oxford University Press.
- ‘Psychiatric care and criminal prosecution’ in Medicine, Crime and Society (2013) Cambridge University Press.
- Brazier, M., Allen, N., ‘Criminalising medical malpractice’ in Charles Erin and Suzanne Ost (eds), The Criminal Justice System and Health Care (2007) Oxford University Press.
- Medical or managerial manslaughter?’ in Charles Erin and Suzanne Ost (eds), The Criminal Justice System and Health Care (2007) Oxford University Press.
- Necessity, Incapability and Emergency’ in Steven Hedley and Margaret Halliwell (eds), The Law of Restitution (2002) Butterworths Common Law Series.
Legal Journals
- Allen, N. et al, ‘Advance decisions to refuse treatment and suicidal behaviour in emergency care: ‘it's very much a step into the unknown’ (2019) 5(4) British Journal of Psychiatry 1.
- Allen, N. et al, ‘The management of patients with an advance decision and suicidal behaviour: A systematic review’ (2019) British Medical Journal (open access).
- Ruck-Keene, A., Bartlett, P., Allen, N., ‘Litigation friends or foes? Representation of P before the Court of Protection’ (2016) Medical Law Review 333-359.
- ‘The (not so?) great confinement’ (2015) 5(1) Elder Law Journal 45-51.
- ‘The Right to Life in a Suicidal State’ (2013) 36 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 350–357.
- Allen, N. and Prescott, A., ‘The opacity of sexual capacity’ (2012) 2(4) Elder Law Journal 352-357.
- ‘Criminal Care: Ill treatment and wilful neglect’ (2012) 2 Elder Law Journal 71-75.
- ‘Dare to care’ (2011) 1(2) Elder Law Journal 167.
- ‘The Bournewood gap (as amended?)’ (2010) 18 Medical Law Review 78-85.
- ‘First do no harm. Second save life?’ (2010) Journal of Mental Health Law 180-185.
- David, T., Bray, S., Farrell, A.M., Allen, N., Ellson, S, ‘Fitness to practise procedures for undergraduate healthcare students’ (2009) 10 Education Law Journal 102-112.
- ‘Saving life and respecting death: A Savage dilemma’ (2009) 17 Medical Law Review 262.
- ‘Is capacity “in sight”?’ (2009) Journal of Mental Health Law 165-170.
- ‘Restricting movement or depriving liberty?’ (2009) Journal of Mental Health Law 19-32.
- ‘Protecting the suicidal patient’ (2008) Journal of Mental Health Law 93-100.
- ‘A human right to smoke?’ (2008) New Law Journal 886-887.
- ‘All in the mind?’ (2008) New Law Journal 848-849.
- ‘Re-detention after recent discharge: A role for judicial review?’ (2007) 15 Medical Law Review 253-261.
- ‘A call for order’ (2007) New Law Journal 241.
- ‘Good faith or no faith?’ (2004) New Law Journal 1170.
- ‘Dunnachie – the door closes.’ (2004) New Law Journal 1208.
- ‘Family values’ (2001) 10 Family Law Journal 18.
- ‘No need to know?’ (2001) 8 Family Law Journal 13.