Briefing Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
Deprivation of Liberty: What Changes after Cheshire West?
A 7-minute practitioner briefing on the Supreme Court judgment in UKSC/2025/0042 and its implications for deprivation of liberty practice after Cheshire West. It explains why continuous supervision and control plus not being free to leave is no longer sufficient on its own, and explores valid consent, wishes and feelings, practical recording, safeguards and the need to assess the person’s concrete situation as a whole.
- Resource type
- Briefing
- Practice area
- Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
- Who it is for
- Practitioners, Supervisors, Teams, Students & Trainees
- Use this when
- before an assessment or decision, during supervision, in a team discussion, when dealing with a complex case, after training or learning, for ongoing reference
What this helps with
A 7-minute practitioner briefing on the Supreme Court judgment in UKSC/2025/0042 and its implications for deprivation of liberty practice after Cheshire West. It explains why continuous supervision and control plus not being free to leave is no longer sufficient on its own, and explores valid consent, wishes and feelings, practical recording, safeguards and the need to assess the person’s concrete situation as a whole.