With young persons, practitioners should not rely upon consent from a person with parental responsibility to override a refusal from a capacitated (or Gillick competent when
considering deprivation of liberty) young person.
Not exact matches
Mr Justice Mitting indicated that if after three months the government can not make progress in its negotiations with the Jordanian government he would «very likely...
consider that a continued
deprivation of liberty is no longer justified».
The «paradigm case» to which Lord Hope referred had previously been
considered by Lord Hoffmann in JJ, where it had been identified as a
deprivation of liberty involving incarceration in a prison cell.
In
considering whether the threshold had been crossed, Lord Hope observed: «If the difference between a restriction
of liberty and a
deprivation of liberty was to be measured merely by the duration
of the restriction, it would be hard to regard what happened in this case as anything other than a
deprivation of liberty» (at [17]-RRB-.
The judge
considered a number
of test cases on the procedure that should be adopted for the CoP to authorise a
deprivation of liberty under section 16
of the MCA.
Law Commissioner Nicolas Paines QC said: «The
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards were designed at a time when considerably fewer people were
considered deprived
of their
liberty.
Consequently, the professionals must or should at least raise an issue to be discussed and decided if the electronic tag, an obligation to stay at the specified address, reporting to the police station and the absolute prohibition for switching off their mobile, should not be
considered as a limitation or
deprivation of liberty.
One might think that analysis
of the right not to be deprived
of liberty except in accordance with the principles
of fundamental justice would
consider fundamental justice as it relates to the
deprivation.