ROCHDALE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL v KW (BY HER LITIGATION FRIEND CW) AND OTHERS

[2015] Med LR 19

COURT OF PROTECTION

Before Mr Justice Mostyn

Mental capacity - Elderly person - Local authority care arrangements - In person's own home - Funded by local authority and an NHS Clinical Commissioning Group - Whether person free to leave - Deprivation of liberty - Mental Capacity Act 2005 - European Convention on Human Rights, article 5 - Leapfrog appeal - Court of Protection - Whether Administration of Justice Act 1969, section 12 applicable.