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Neil Allen

@lpslaw.bsky.social

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Fascinated by all things mental and legal. Barrister at 39 Essex Chambers and LPS Law: www.lpslaw.co.uk/about/

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Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · May 13

🚨 Need to reduce your DoLS backlogs?
Read our new DoLS Equivalent Assessment Guidance Note which I'll be talking about it at the DoLS authoriser course:

📅 4 July 2025 9.30am-1pm
Book your place now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dols-autho... Or 📧 contact: [email protected] for an invoice

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Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · Jun 16

DoLS refresher courses: 26.6.25, 16.7.25, 6.11.25
"That's the best refresher session I have ever done (and I have done a fair few!)" (Stephen Down, MCA & LPS Lead, 2025)
Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/neil-allen...
Local authorities: email [email protected] for group discounts

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"Neil is a brilliant advocate who is able to deal with complex matters very easily... He is great with clients and colleagues alike." Chambers & Partners 2023“An unflappable and incredibly…

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Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · May 13

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Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · Mar 14

Latest CQC's report on monitoring the Mental Health Act for the year 2023-2024: www.cqc.org.uk/publications...

“We remain concerned that clinicians may not always be considering where the MHA can be used when the DoLS framework is not appropriate and where the patient is objecting.."

Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2023/24 - Care Quality Commission

Monitoring the Mental Health Act is our annual report on the use of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA).

www.cqc.org.uk

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Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · Mar 3

'Ending coercion in mental health care, 12-13 June 2025, Colchester': this year's Summer School looks great and registration is now open -

Summer School 2025 | Centre For Investigating Contemporary Social Ills

How can we effect change so as to end coercion in mental health settings and transform the social context of distress? Explore this at the two-day 3rd CICSI Summer School, taught by a leading experts…

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Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · Feb 25

Back by popular demand: MCA 2005 Necessity and Proportionality Online Training - 9.30-12.30pm on 5 March 2025. Tickets available here:

MCA 2005 Necessity and Proportionality Training

Do you know how to determine whether care arrangements are necessary and proportionate to the risk of harm under the MCA 2005?

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Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · Feb 12

Important and helpful judicial clarity on the clinical concept of “insight” and the legal concept of “capacity”: CT v London Borough of Lambeth & Anor [2025] EWCOP 6 (T3) (12 February 2025)

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[New search] [Printable PDF version] [Help] This judgment was delivered in public but a transparency order dated 4 February 2025 is in force. The judge has given leave for this version of the…

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Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · Jan 22

Personal plea for legal clarity: please can we stop referring to “decisional capacity” and “executive capacity” in SARs, coroner’s reports etc. If someone cannot “use”, or perhaps “retain”, information at the material time, refer to that instead as per MCA 2005. Thanks!

Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · Dec 19

This is how an amended MHA 1983 might look:

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Neil Allen @lpslaw.bsky.social · Dec 17

Why not treat yourself for Christmas and spend a day with me 🎅🏽😂; you’ll get a 6-hour certificate in return:
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