Wakefield Metropolitan District Council & Anor v DN & Anor [2019] EWHC 2306 (Fam)

Cobb J provides a comprehensive summary of the law relating to the use of inherent jurisdiction in order to authorise a deprivation of liberty. On the facts of the case, the learned judge rejected the applications to authorise both the deprivation of DN’s liberty and his care regime in supported living under a Mental Health Treatment Requirement of a Community Order.