Lecturer in law. Interested in mental capacity law, disability rights, and human rights.
Joined January 2018
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Amber Pugh retweeted
** Fragment from a hearing **
Counsel: P is a 20-year-old girl who-
Judge: Again, Mr Y, she is is NOT.
Counsel: Oh, a WOMAN. I'm most grateful for the correction.
Judge: I'm not simply picking hairs about it. This is someone who is an ADULT, by some distance now.
Amber Pugh retweeted
Incorporating AI in mental health assessemtn, by @Amber__Pugh in Panel on Law and the Vulnerable in #LSA2024: new legislation in England and Ireland. There's an AI revolution. Explosion in AI research. Interest in using AI in health context.
Amber Pugh retweeted
Look! It's @HRMcCabe with the #DrawingOnForcedMarriage resources.
#forcedmarriage #comic #education
@LJMULaw @LJMU_LTAP
Great to see our @NottsPolitics @rightsbeacon @ahrcpress research featured this morning. Such a brilliant project from @hannahaber and @KNFMHBV. BBC News - Forced marriage comic made to 'get students talking'
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no…
My review of @bev_clough's fantastic book The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law is out now in @SLS_Journal
A pleasure to read @Amber__Pugh review of The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law for @SLS_Journal this morning journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Amber Pugh retweeted
We delivered our first #forcedmarriage #comic workshop @NottmGirlsAcad. What a pleasure and privilege to work with super engaged, smart and creative Equality Group members. Thank you, @alexcarabine, @RuthGangneux, and Touch the Sun for your support.
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Wonderful day celebrating the 10 year anniversary of @livuni_HLRU. Thanks to all our brilliant speakers @alghrani @EHorowicz @Amber__Pugh @ImogenGoold @khorsey @surrogacyreform @iliadoumarianna and of course Sally Sheldon for giving such a thought provoking lecture @LivUniSLSJ
Looking forward to this celebration of the wonderful work done by @livuni_HLRU. Free registration 👇
Members of @livuni_HLRU including @alghrani, Marie fox, @Amber__Pugh, @paulajanecase, Craig Purshouse, @EHorowicz (and others) will be reflecting on the ‘Past, Present and Future’ of our research unit and it’s links to other centres as part of our 10 year celebratory event.
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The Health Law and Regulation Unit (@livuni_HLRU) was established in 2013 following a long history of leading healthcare lawyers based in our School.
Join us on 28 Jun for a 10-year anniversary celebratory conference🎉
Free Registration 👉 bit.ly/HLRU10years
Amber Pugh retweeted
Fancy making a #comic to teach teenagers about #forcedmarriage?
Come work with me!
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@LJMULaw @ahrcpress @SaveraUK @KNFMHBV
@ljmu_education @StalkerLawJMU @HRMcCabe @rightsbeacon @mcvanhout @S_Kewley
Amber Pugh retweeted
ALT Two smiling picketers holding UCU placard: on strike for fair pay Outside Liverpool John Moores Art and design
ALT More picketers with placards outside Liverpool John Moores, also a very large flag!
ALT Two more smiling picketers with a UCU placard
ALT Three lovely LJMU strikers!
Amber Pugh retweeted
Just a reminder that the @LawPeaceHR and @LJMULaw Roundtable Discussion on Ukraine is tomorrow, 13th Oct at 13.30. You can either attend in person (RB519) or via Teams (PM me for the link). The event is open to all.
Amber Pugh retweeted
This is a hugely disturbing case about whether a woman with a #LearningDisability has capacity to have sexual contact with her abuser before she dies.
It's back in court tomorrow.
Are you free to observe?
#OpenJustice #NotSecretCourt
Capacity for sex
This case is back in court
Tuesday 26th July 2022
Mr Justice Poole
Royal Courts of Justice (via MS Teams)
10:30am COP 13890570 Re: KF
Email for link: [email protected]
(copy to [email protected])
openjusticecourtofprotection…
Amber Pugh retweeted
**RESEARCH RECRUITMENT**
Has your child been ‘managed moved’ within the English education system from one school to another?If so,I would like to hear about your experience & perceptions of the process.Please see the information sheet below & DM/email me
Amber Pugh retweeted
**November Roundup**
In November we published 12 blogs by 17 different authors
[1] Most read: Supreme Court decision on capacity to engage in sex
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"It is disappointing that the Court’s only engagement with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was to dismiss it..." says @Amber__Pugh
openjusticecourtofprotection… via @OpenJusticeCoP
This blog post from the @OpenJusticeCoP has a brilliant range of perspectives on the recent decision of the UKSC in A Local Authority v JB, including some of my thoughts on the judgment
Legal scholars, feminist, carer, social worker, solicitor + Special Visitor, reflect on Supreme Court judgment
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Amber Pugh retweeted
Judgment:
Does a person need to understand that the other person must have capacity to consent to the sexual activity & must in fact consent before & throughout the sexual activity?
See our previous blogs about this case:
First @Amber__Pugh
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The Supreme Court is handing down the judgment in A Local Authority v JB tomorrow - a very important case about capacity and sexual relations, and the MCA more broadly
I wrote about the hearing here: openjusticecourtofprotection…
@OpenJusticeCoP
Judgment will be handed down on Wednesday 24 November at 9.45am in person and via video link in the case of A Local Authority (Respondent) v JB (by his Litigation Friend, the Official Solicitor) (AP) (Appellant) – UKSC 2020/0133
supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2…
ALT Forthcoming Judgment in UK Supreme Court. Orange and white wording on blue background.