Surrey County Council v P and others (Equality and Human Rights Commission and others intervening); Cheshire West and Chester Council v P and another (Same intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted March 25th, 2014 in appeals, deprivation of liberty safeguards, disabled persons, housing, law reports, local government, mental health, Supreme Court by sally

Surrey County Council v P and others (Equality and Human Rights Commission and others intervening); Cheshire West and Chester Council v P and another (Same intervening) [2014] UKSC 19; [2014] WLR (D) 140

‘Mentally incapacitated persons had the same rights to liberty as everyone else, and if their living arrangements would amount to a deprivation of liberty of a capacitous person they were also a deprivation of liberty of the incapacitated person, who was therefore entitled to periodic independent checks to ensure that the deprivation of liberty remained justified in his or her best interests.’

WLR Daily, 19th March 2014

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