The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 1 WLR 1052
Family Division
*A Local Authority v LD and another
[2023] EWHC 1258 (Fam)
2023 May 15, 19; 25
Mostyn J
Mental capacity— Incapable person— Interim order— Local authority seeking interim order to remove vulnerable adult from home for capacity and care assessments— Whether “reason to believe” adult lacking capacity— Whether power under inherent jurisdiction to make order depriving vulnerable but not incapacitous adult of liberty—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 5(1)(e)[1]
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Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9), s 48[2]