𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗮𝘄𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 Oliver Lewis (@droliverlewis.bsky.social) was instructed by Bríd Doherty at @hodgejonesallen.bsky.social to represent Richard’s family. ➡️ www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/unlawfu...
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Health and human rights barrister at @DoughtyStPublic. https://linktr.ee/droliverlewis. Views my own
💙📚 Don't miss the Springer book 'What If Maslow Was Wrong? #Safety vs. #Autonomy in Decision-Making for Older Adults.' This book explores the tension between safety and autonomy when it comes to decision-making for older adults. bit.ly/4bAOx4A #GeronSky 📊🩺
Video released earlier this week by @theipaper.com regarding children across England and the use of seclusion rooms, based on findings from the ICARS Isolation, Seclusion and Removal Room Survey 2026. #AgainstRestraint
Statement on the recent Supreme Court DoLS judgement. We are concerned at how this sits against the background of everything else that is currently eroding the rights of autistic people and people with learning disabilities. rightfullives.org.uk/blog/statement-on-the-supreme-court-dols-judgement/
Statement on the Supreme Court DoLS Judgement – Rightful Lives
The recent weakening of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) protections is not an isolated development. It forms part of a wider and deeply concerning pattern in which the rights of autistic people and people with learning disabilities are being steadily eroded across health, social care and education.
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Just in case you didn't see it, this very short video is an excellent summary of the key points. bsky.app/profile/drol...
Oliver Lewis@droliverlewis.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe UK Supreme Court has abolished the ‘acid test’ to see if a disabled person is deprived of their liberty. Here’s a short video explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=bojH...
.@mencap.org.uk, @mind.org.uk and @autisticsociety.bsky.social said this week’s Supreme Court judgment “removes safeguards that history shows us are vital for disabled people” while introducing a “regressive legal standard” across the NHS and social care. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warn
Campaigners say supreme court judgment on deprivation of liberty safeguards introduces ‘regressive legal standard’
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A good primer on the judgment in the Supreme Court this week that erased rights depended on by disabled people for the last decade. The clock is running backwards on human rights in the UK.
Oliver Lewis@droliverlewis.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe UK Supreme Court has abolished the ‘acid test’ to see if a disabled person is deprived of their liberty. Here’s a short video explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=bojH...
The UK Supreme Court has changed the way the law works on whether a disabled person is being deprived of their liberty if they cannot make the decision themselves. You can read Learning Disability England's statement and find out more here: tinyurl.com/45jzxyfj
Supreme Court Judgement on Deprivation of Liberty - Learning Disability England
The UK Supreme Court has changed the way the law on whether a disabled person is being deprived of their liberty if they cannot make the decision themselves. This means that the rules on Deprivation ...
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Disabled people's rights in the UK are under wholesale attack from multiple directions. This Supreme Court ruling today is the latest example and it is utterly appalling. I could weep. youtu.be/bojHxNTjDAI?...
UK Supreme Court abolishes the 'acid test'
YouTube video by Oliver Lewis
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𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 ‘𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁’ 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 ➡️https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/supreme-court-abolishes-acid-test-determining-deprivation-liberty-disabled-people
Supreme Court have basically taken away the right to challenge being 'kept prisoner', if you are a person in a care home setting. Major charities are aghast. So are families.
Oliver Lewis@droliverlewis.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe UK Supreme Court has abolished the ‘acid test’ to see if a disabled person is deprived of their liberty. Here’s a short video explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=bojH...
This is a crystal-clear analysis explaining why the UKSC decision yesterday that overturned Cheshire West is appalling (add it to the list). Thanks to @droliverlewis.bsky.social for this public service
Oliver Lewis@droliverlewis.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe UK Supreme Court has abolished the ‘acid test’ to see if a disabled person is deprived of their liberty. Here’s a short video explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=bojH...
Disturbing thread. UK Supreme Court has ruled to revoke human rights of yet another marginalised group - disabled people. This video from @droliverlewis.bsky.social especially offers a clear explanation of the ruling and the horrific implications. Worth a watch. bsky.app/profile/drol...
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday the Supreme Court, found in favour of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to, once again, allow for removal of rights and undermine protection for marginalised and vulnerable people, in this case disabled individuals. This is part of a wider erosion of human rights in the UK. 1/
The UK Supreme Court has abolished the ‘acid test’ to see if a disabled person is deprived of their liberty. Here’s a short video explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=bojH...
UK Supreme Court abolishes the 'acid test'
YouTube video by Oliver Lewis
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The UK Supreme Court has abolished the ‘acid test’ to see if a disabled person is deprived of their liberty. Here’s a short video explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=bojH...
UK Supreme Court abolishes the 'acid test'
YouTube video by Oliver Lewis
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So many broken promises and missed targets - so 15 years after the ‘watershed’ of Winterbourne View, autistic people & citizens with learning disabilities still suffer state-sanctioned abuse. My @theipaper.com column on a scandal dragging on in plain sight inews.co.uk/opinion/auti...
Autistic people are enduring state-sanctioned torture in the UK. Yet we do nothing
Beneath the surface of each scandal is the medically and morally indefensible system
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📚 In her book review, Emma Sutton KC (Chair of the Court of Protection Bar Association) says my book "is an authoritative text providing a serious contribution to a developing area of law". It "both reflects and advances an important shift in contemporary legal thought." 📚
My book 'Coercive Control and Vulnerable Adults' was launched last week 🥳 Thanks to King LJ, Emma Sutton KC, Akua Agyepong and Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) for speaking on the panel chaired by Mary-Rachel McCabe
📚 Excited to share my book 'Coercive Control and Vulnerable Adults' 👉 Law & procedure in the Court of Protection & under the inherent jurisdiction 👉 Trauma and domestic abuse 👉 How to represent a local authority / a perpetrator / a victim/survivor www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/coercive-...
Coercive Control and Vulnerable Adults
"The publication of this book is most welcome. Dr Oliver Lewis' expertise in medical ethics and human rights law add a depth and breadth to its content whi…
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Book review: Coercive Control and Vulnerable Adults: Law and Practice under the Court of Protection and the Inherent Jurisdiction of the High Court Book Review: Oliver Lewis, Coercive Control and Vulnerable Adults: Law and Practice under the Court of Protection and the Inherent Jurisdiction of the…
Book review: Coercive Control and Vulnerable Adults: Law and Practice under the Court of Protection and the Inherent Jurisdiction of the High Court
Book Review: Oliver Lewis, Coercive Control and Vulnerable Adults: Law and Practice under the Court of Protection and the Inherent Jurisdiction of the High Court (Bloomsbury, 2026, 242 pp, hardback / ebook, £48.60) If I have done one useful thing in the past few years, it was to have a conversation with the barrister (and CRPD specialist) Dr Oliver Lewis…
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My book "Coercive control and vulnerable adults: Law and Practice in the Court of Protection and under the Inherent Jurisdiction of the High Court" comes out next week, but I've already received some copies. Order here: bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/coercive-... and DM me for a discount code 😉
Today I returned from the The International Coercive Control Conference in New York, where professionals from around the world came together to examine how systems respond to coercive and controlling behaviour.
As someone with Hungarian heritage who lived in Budapest for 14 years, is married to a Hungarian and has many Hungarian relatives and friends, I’m delighted that Tisza is in powerand @magyarpeterMP is PM. Here’s to a new beginning. Gratulárok, magyarok! 🇭🇺 🗳️ 🥂
A significant legal milestone in Scotland. A jury has found a perpetrator of domestic abuse including #coercivecontrol, guilty of 'culpable homicide' of his partner Kimberly Milne, who died by suicide. news.sky.com/story/lee-mi...
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On 2 February 2026, an inquest jury in Horsham found that multiple failings in mental health care contributed to the death of 16-year-old Ellame Ford-Dunn on 20 March 2022. Read more: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/risk-te...
UK Supreme Court hears disability rights case - the judgment, expected to be handed down next year, has UK-wide implications for people with learning disabilities, brain injury or dementia, mental health problems, and autistic people. @droliverlewis.bsky.social was instructed by Irwin Mitchell.
UK Supreme Court hears disability rights case
It is permissible under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for the law to say that a person who lacks capacity to consent to their care arrangements can nevertheless give valid consent
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I'm doing a remote talk with the lovely people at Thalamos at 12:30pm today Monday (22 Sept) to support NHS leaders to prepare for when the Mental Health Bill becomes law. Sign up here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a6127d...
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