11/7/2022 8:29:05 AM Tony Hickmott goes home By Oliver Lewis A loving family fighting his corner, scrutiny of the media and supervision by the Court of Protection have created the possibility of...
1/4/2022 7:45:58 PM Reducing mental health detention of people with autism and/or learning disabilities By Oliver Lewis On New Year's Day, the Sunday Times featured the story of 'A', a 24-year-old man with learning disabilities and autism who has been...
1/5/2021 12:00:00 AM Visiting care home residents - the rules By Oliver Lewis This blog summarises care home visiting rules across the UK’s four nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It was...
9/25/2020 12:47:19 PM International human rights bodies, disability and Covid-19 By Oliver Lewis I have written an article in the European Human Rights Law Review on "Supranational human rights bodies and protecting the rights of...
9/23/2020 12:58:11 PM Covid-19 deaths of care home residents: what does justice look like? By Oliver Lewis On Monday 21 September 2020, Doughty Street Chambers hosted a webinar on “Covid-19 deaths of care home residents: what does justice look...
9/23/2020 12:00:00 AM We need a public inquiry into Cygnet’s 'Yew Trees' scandal By Oliver Lewis Trigger warning: descriptions of violence and abuse. Today the Care Quality Commission has published a report into abuse at Cygnet Yew...
7/29/2020 12:00:00 AM "Slow, inconsistent and, at times, negligent" By Oliver Lewis Today, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee published a highly critical report on "Readying the NHS and social care for the...
6/24/2020 2:41:08 PM Children’s right to live in the community By Oliver Lewis The Lancet has today published a set of papers on institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children. They will receive a...