B v A Local Authority: CA 11 Jun 2019

The Court considered the factors relevant to making the determinations of capacity which are under challenge and as to the approach to assessment of capacity when the absence of capacity to make a particular decision would conflict with a conclusion that there is capacity to make some other decision.

Judges:

Sir Terence Etherton MR, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Leggatt

Citations:

[2019] EWCA Civ 913

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Mental Capacity Act 2005

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Health

Updated: 06 July 2022; Ref: scu.638194