Neil Ward heads the excellent national offering at Mills & Reeve LLP, which handles a range of complex cases, from urgent medical treatment cases to community deprivation of liberty issues. Clients are NHS trusts, ICBs, and independent sector providers, while the firm is also well placed to advise on the complex interaction between mental capacity and mental health law. Jill Mason frequently covers matters, such as lasting powers of attorney to best interests decisions. These cases often relate to serious medical treatment or deprivation of liberty matters. James Wood joined the team from Ward Hadaway LLP in November 2024.
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Key clients
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
- The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board
- NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
- NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board
- Together for Mental Wellbeing
- NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
- Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
- NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board
Work highlights
Advised NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board on the first reported case considering Dissociate Identity Disorder and capacity and the important issue of when the Court of Protection can make ‘anticipatory’ declarations.
Practice head
Neil Ward
Other key lawyers
Jill Mason; James Wood