DM v Y City Council: CoP 15 Jun 2017

Application on behalf of an incapacitous man under Section 21(A) of the 2005 Act. It is nominally by way of a challenge to a Standard Authorisation authorising the deprivation of DM’s liberty at a care home [‘the Home’] for six months expiring on 2nd August 2017. The underlying issue, however, is: (a) whether DM, who is currently an abstinent alcoholic, should continue to reside and be cared for at the Home, a care home which forbids alcohol, or (b) whether he should be moved, as he wishes to be, to a home which does allow the consumption of alcohol.

Citations:

[2017] EWCOP 13

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Mental Capacity Act 2005and 21(A)

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Health, Local Government

Updated: 30 March 2022; Ref: scu.595868