The Mental Capacity Act 2005 – Ten Years On

Programme

Programme

The Mental Capacity Act 2005: Ten Years On
9-10 September 2015, Liverpool Maritime Museum

Day 1

09:00

Registration

09:25

Conference Welcome

09:30

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 & The Court of Protection

 

Gordon Ashton OBE (retired District Judge and nominated Judge of the Court of Protection)

‘The Mental Capacity Act 2005 - The next 10 Years’

 

Professor John Coggon

‘Best Interests in The Court of Protection’

 

Professor Phil Fennell

‘The Court of Protection and the Juridification of Health and Social Care’

11:30

Break

11:45

Neil Allen (Barrister)

‘The (not so?) great confinement’

12.30

Professor Peter Bartlett

‘The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: Where To Now?’

1.15

Lunch

2.15

Alex Ruck Keene (Barrister)

‘(Re)presenting P before the Court of Protection'

3.00

Mr RA Wheeler (Consultant Neonatal & Paediatric Surgeon) -

‘MCA 2005: Immersed and sinking?’

3.45

Break

4.00

Paul Skowron

‘Substituted Decision Making and Meno’s Paradox: An Enduring Challenge under the Mental Capacity Act 2005?'

4.45

Sir/Judge Mark Hedley

'Opening up the Private Courts: Free Speech or Personal Privacy?

5.30

CLOSE

7.00

Conference Dinner at East Z East 

Day 2

09:00

Registration

09:30

Panel: A Closer look at workings of the MCA

 

Dr Mary Donnelly

‘Utopian Ideals and Epistemic Imperfections: Exploring the Scope of Supported Decision-Making’

 

Dr John Fanning

'Intensifying the Risk Agenda: The Impact of the Mental Capacity Act on the Mental Health Act‘

 

Dr David Horton and Gary Lynch-Wood

‘Putting Mental Capacity into Mental Capacity’

11:30

Break

11:45

Dr Emma Cave

‘Minding the Gaps: The Mental Capacity Act, Children and Mental Health’

12.30

Dr Kirsty Keywood

‘Vulnerability and Mental Capacity: Paradoxes and Paradigms‘

1.15

Lunch

2.15

Ms Beverly Clough

'Vulnerability and Capacity to Consent to Sex- Drawing the Boundaries'

3.00

Dr Paula Case

‘Assessing capacity under the MCA: clinical 'judgment' vs judicial diagnosis'

3.45

Break

4.00

Professor Jean McHale

'The Mental Capacity Act 2005 Ten Years On: Lessons Learnt and Lost'

4.30

CLOSE