Tim is a lawyer who specialises in mental capacity, mental health and social care law, 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 is currently on a secondment to the Government Legal Department (DHSC) where he is working primarily on implementing the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019.
Conducting mental capacity assessments when someone has fluctuating capacity can be very difficult. This quick guide looks at case law and what it tells practitioners about assessing someone with fluctuating capacity.
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