Tim Spencer-Lane Tim Spencer-Lane

Tim is a lawyer who specialises in mental capacity, mental health and social care law. He is the legal editor at Community Care Inform and senior lecturer at Kingston University.

At the Law Commission he led the reviews of adult social care, health and social care professional regulation and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. He currently works as a lawyer at the government legal department (Department of Health and Social Care) where he advises on mental capacity and mental health law.

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Infant vaccination, religious objection and care orders: Re WSP (A Child) [2023] EWHC 2622 (Fam)

Deprivation of liberty to protect a child from criminal exploitation: EBY (A Child) [2023] EWHC 2494 (Fam)

Care orders v supervision orders when a child is placed at home: JW [2023] EWCA Civ 944

Parental alienation and care proceedings: Warwickshire County Council v The Mother & Ors [2022] EWHC 2146 (Fam)

Quick guide to the Supported Accommodation (England) Regulations 2023

A summary of the 2023 regulations that bring in regulation, registration and quality standards for the 'supported accommodation' sector and ban placement of 16 and 17 year olds in unregulated settings from October 2023.

Fabricated or induced illness and emergency protection orders: E and H [2023] EWFC 69

The interface between the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act: Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v JS & Anor [2023] EWCOP 12 and [2023] EWCOP 33

Webinar: the LPS delay – what does it mean and what next?

Outlines what the LPS delay means for deprivation of liberty

Webinar transcript: the LPS delay – what does it mean and what next?

Outlines what the LPS delay means for deprivation of liberty

Liberty Protection Safeguards: announcement

The government has paused implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards. This article explains the likely way forward for deprivation of liberty and the Mental Capacity Act.