“Chilling” failures to comply with the Mental Capacity Act – Doughty Street Chambers
‘In A (Fact-Finding), HHJ Clayton strongly criticised, and awarded costs against, a local authority and Clinical Commissioning Group after their pursuit of a fundamentally flawed approach to the best interests of P, a young man with a severe global delay, who was unable to communicate verbally.’
Doughty Street Chambers, 20th January 2020
Source: insights.doughtystreet.co.uk