Welcome to the October 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: time-specificity of capacity (again), a Welsh primer on key caselaw and urban myths around s.4B MCA 2005; In the Property and Affairs Report: two guest articles from new members of the Court of Protection on attorney elephant traps;

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The Senior President of Tribunals, Lord Justice Dingemans, has appointed the Honourable Mr Justice Lavender to be the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal with effect ...

[I set out here a press release from the Office of the Public Guardian - the 'clarification' relates to a consent order, rather than a judgment.  If / when the consent order is made public I will add it to this page] On 18 July 2025, the Court of Protection clarified how vehicle contracts under the Motability Scheme should be handled when arranged by a deputy.

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President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation that will require a new, $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visa applications.

The Law Commission of England & Wales published its 14th programme of law reform on 4 September - i.e. its proposed plan of work for the years ahead.  It includes ten new projects (alongside existing projects such as Disabled Children's Social Care, on which I was a consultant; the final report for which should be out shortly).  These range widely over such matters as consent in the criminal law, public sector automated decision-making, deeds and the defence of insanity. 

The new law will be extended to these three countries first, and then to the U.S. and Canada, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.