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Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019

Type: Act

Updated Date: 4 March 2025

Publication Date: 9 October 2019

A step-by-step look at the sections and parts of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 and what they mean for practice.

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Deprivation of liberty and parental consent: Re D (A Child) [2019] UKSC 42

Case Date: 26 September 2019

Publication Date: 30 September 2019

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Deprivation of liberty involving children: Re A-F (Children) [2018] EWHC 138 (Fam) and Re A-F (Children) (No.2) [2018] EWHC 2129 (Fam)

Case Date: 8 August 2018

Publication Date: 22 November 2018

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Safeguarding disabled children: guide to the law

Updated Date: 20 January 2023

Publication Date: 29 August 2017

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Deprivation of liberty involving children and young people

Author: Steven Richards and Dawn Revell

Updated Date: 9 May 2025

Publication Date: 30 November 2016

How to recognise when a child accommodated by a local authority could be being deprived of their liberty and the legal routes to authorise a deprivation of liberty.

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Mental capacity: knowledge and practice hub

Author: Community Care Inform

Publication Date: 7 June 2016

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Deprivation of liberty: AB (a child) [2015]

Case Date: 28 July 2015

Publication Date: 3 February 2016

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Deprivation of liberty: the Cheshire West case [2014]

Case Date: 19 March 2014

Publication Date: 13 March 2015

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