What price freedom? Counting the cost when DoLS goes wrong.

Esegbona v Kings College Hospital [2019] EWHC 77 (QB) Twenty years on from Bournewood, the case that prompted the introduction of DoLS, and as the Mental Capacity Amendment Bill tolls the death knell for DoLS and introduces as their replacement Liberty Protection Safeguards, the High Court (HHJ Coe QC sitting as a High Court Judge) has … Continue reading What price freedom? Counting the cost when DoLS goes wrong.