Tim Spencer-Lane
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.
All posts by Tim Spencer-Lane
Explains five controversial decisions by the Department of Health and Social Care which adopt a radically different approach to determining ordinary residence for the purposes of section 117 of the Mental Health Act and the implications for local authorities.
Guidance on the legal position in relation to testing for Covid-19 when the person in question lacks the mental capacity to consent to a test or has capacity but refuses to be tested.
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