Case Law

Alcohol abuse, capacity and sexual relations in the context of a long-term loving relationship: Re PS (Severe Short-Term Memory Loss: Capacity to Engage in Sexual Relations) [2024] EWCOP 42 (T2)

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Introduction

By Tim Spencer-Lane Introduction This case considered a couple’s right to sexual relations in circumstances where one partner had been placed into residential care. There was also a history of alcohol use by both partners. These sorts of cases raise challenging issues for health and social care practitioners seeking to maintain the couple’s relationship, while […]

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