The WLR Daily case summaries
[2015] WLR (D) 64
MENTAL DISORDER— Incapable person— Deprivation of liberty— Unauthorised placement in residential home— — Local authority failing to comply with deprivation of liberty safeguards— — Whether local authority acting unlawfully— — Human Rights Act 1998, s 7, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 5, 8— — Mental Capacity Act 2005 (as amended by Mental Health Act 2007, ss 50, 56, Sch 9 para 6), s 39D, Sch A1, para 140— — Mental Capacity (Deprivation of Liberty: Appointment of Relevant Person's Representative) Regulations 2008 (SI No 2008/1315), reg 3