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Annabel Lee

@Annabel39

Barrister @39essexchambers public law, judicial review, human rights, mental capacity, mental health, social care and healthcare law. Personal views #CEP

Joined November 2010
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*** OPPORTUNITY: Could you be our new Human Rights Officer? *** 🧵A thread about this great role that combines both human rights practice & policy change, with insights from the team about the work. Please read & watch & share ⤵️
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Our October Mental Capacity Report is out today: 39essex.com/mental-capacity-… @TorButlerCole @NeilAllen39 @Capacitylaw @Annabel39 @NicolaKohn @ariannakelly @rachelsullivan @StephDavid11
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BLEMI@BLEMI_UK22 Sep 2021
We are thrilled that BLEMI held its first full meeting this month. We have exciting plans to raise awareness of mental illness at the bar, to support one another, and to encourage aspiring barristers with lived experience of mental illness that they are not excluded from the bar.
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Our September Mental Capacity Report is out today! Read in full here: 39essex.com/mental-capacity-… #mentalcapacity @TorButlerCole @NeilAllen39 @Capacitylaw @Annabel39 @NicolaKohn @ariannakelly @rachelsullivan @StephDavid11
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Replying to @mariafarrell @davidallengreen @attorneygeneral @CPSUK @michaelgove
Hilarious that Gove took credit for reversing the ban on books (actually, the *inclusion* of books within the scope of the ‘Privileges’ scheme). That policy was dead in the water after a the Gordon-Jones JR win by Jenni Richards QC, @TorButlerCole @Annabel39
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Our June 2021 Mental Capacity Report is out today. Read in full and watch Alex's 'walkthrough' of this month's report here: 39essex.com/mental-capacity-… @TorButlerCole @NeilAllen39 @Capacitylaw @Annabel39 @NicolaKohn @ariannakelly @rachelsullivan @StephDavid11 #mentalcapacity
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The May edition of our Mental Capacity Report is out now. Click here to read in full and watch Alex Ruck Keene's walkthrough of this month's report 39essex.com/mental-capacity-… @TorButlerCole @NeilAllen39 @Capacitylaw @Annabel39 @NicolaKohn @rachelsullivan @StephDavid11 @ariannakelly
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Jenni Richards QC and Steve Broach act for Article 39 in a judicial review claim which challenges the weakening of a wide range of safeguards for looked after children and in relation to the adoption and fostering process during Covid-19 @SteveBroach @article_39 #publiclaw

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How can @educationgovuk put out guidance saying that LAs only have to ‘do their best’ to meet duties to care leavers, when there is nothing in the Coronavirus Act downgrading these duties?
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@EHRC12 Feb 2020
Legal action❗ We have launched a legal challenge against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care over the repeated failure to move people with learning disabilities and autism into appropriate accommodation. Find out more ➡ socsi.in/wi2Zq
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Alex Rook@alexrook15 Dec 2019
3 days in the High Court completed, challenging the lawfulness of the decision to close the stroke unit at QEQM hospital in Kent. Decision expected in the new year. Privilege to represent Marion and all the local people who supported the case. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.kento…
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Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: a legal and ethical stocktake, now properly out in the Journal of Medical Ethics @JME_BMJ (with @Annabel39): jme.bmj.com/content/45/12/79…
Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: a stock-take of the legal and ethical position

Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: a stock-take of the legal and ethical position

This article, prompted by an extended essay published in the Journal of Medical Ethics by Charles Foster, and the current controversy surrounding the case of Vincent Lambert, analyses the legal and...

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My clients continue their fight to save vital services at South Tyneside Hospital in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday #publiclaw #southtyneside shieldsgazette.com/health/so…
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Our report on the detention of young people with learning disabilities &/or autism published today calls for urgent action to stop human rights abuses: parliament.uk/business/commi… @HarrietHarman 1/3
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Re D – the Supreme Court, 16/17 year olds and confinement mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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Proud to announce that chambers has been nominated as Human Rights and Public Law "Set of the Year" for the Chambers Bar Awards 2019. Particular congratulations to Alex Ruck Keene @Capacitylaw who has been nominated as Junior of the Year in that category: 39essex.com/39-essex-chamber…
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Two more LAG authors appointed to @EHRC panels. Good news @Capacitylaw and @Annabel39. Not claiming credit ...
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Yogi Amin@YogiAminIM15 May 2019
Patient launches legal fight against £40m stroke review kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news…
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The Infected Blood Inquiry formally opens today - Jenni Richards QC, Katie Scott and @Annabel39 counsel to the inquiry, Eleanor Grey QC and Catherine Dobson act for Dep of Health and Charles Cory-Wright QC and Gethin Thomas for NHS Blood and Transplant
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Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill update mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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