Neil Allen
@NeilAllen39
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Barrister (@39EssexChambers), Senior Lecturer (@law_uom) and Founder of LPS Law Ltd
Manchester, England
Joined July 2012
Calling all BIAs, mental health assessors, and paid RPRs! Don't miss our popular DoLS refreshers before the summer. Join us online on 2 April, 8 May, 26 June or 16 July 2025. - For organisational bookings: email neil@lpslaw.co.uk for group discounts .- For individual tickets:
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DoLS authoriser training - 2 October - bookings now available:.
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RT @MentalHealthCop: The latest NHS England guidance on suicide risk assessment recommends setting aside traditional risk assessments acros….
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RT @CommunityCare: Minister 'not convinced' on replacing DoLS with Liberty Protection Safeguards - Community Care
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DoLS refresher courses: 26.6.25, 16.7.25, 6.11.25."That's the best refresher session I have ever done (and I have done a fair few!)" (Stephen Down, MCA & LPS Lead, 2025).Tickets available here: These one-day online courses are designed specifically for.
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Cheshire West revisited: Supreme Court will consider whether P can tacitly consent to their confinement so they are not deprived of liberty -
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Looking forward to this with perhaps an ambitiously entitled talk on “Mastering the community DoLS process”! 😳.
Book your place for Community Care Live 2025 - Community Care
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Latest Coroner concerns about “Right Care, Right Person” shows how crucial it is to distinguish the MHA 1983 s135/6 (lower) thresholds from the general (higher) threshold:
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RT @HumanRightsCtte: We have carried out scrutiny on the Mental Health Bill to assess its compatability with international and domestic hum….
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“The Government should, however, carry out an urgent review of the interface between the MHA and MCA and take prompt action to provide the clarity that is currently lacking.”
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For last year’s brilliant advocacy students who argued this case… were you right or wrong?… Find out next week….
Judgment will be handed down on Wednesday 21 May in the matter of Dartmoor National Park Authority (Respondent) v Darwall and another (Appellants) UKSC 2023/0126:
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AMHP workforce 25% short of what’s legally required - Community Care
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🚨 Need to reduce your DoLS backlogs? .We're publishing our brand-new DoLS Equivalent Assessment Guidance Note – essential for all DoLS Authorisers and useful for BIAs. I'll be talking about it at the DoLS authoriser course on . 📅 4 July 2025 9.30am-1pm. Book your place now
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RT @OpenJusticeCoP: Statutory Wills: A barrister explains via @OpenJusticeCoP . #OpenJustice #NotSecretCourt.
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RT @NeilAllen39: Calling all BIAs, mental health assessors, and paid RPRs! Don't miss our popular DoLS refreshers before the summer. Join u….
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RT @richardsusskind: Publication day. My book, HOW TO THINK ABOUT AI: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED (@OUPAcademic), is out today in the UK. You….
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Latest CQC's report on monitoring the Mental Health Act 2023-2024: . “We remain concerned that clinicians may not always be considering where the MHA can be used when the DoLS framework is not appropriate and where the patient is objecting to their.
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