{"id":1556,"date":"2026-07-21T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/?page_id=1556"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:00:13","slug":"latest-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/?page_id=1556","title":{"rendered":"Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 2026: Supreme Court Overturns Cheshire West &#8211; A change to Deprivation of Liberty Law<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 2nd June 2026, the Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment reshaping the legal framework for deprivation of liberty under Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), bringing an end to the long\u2011standing \u201cCheshire West\u201d approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026] UKSC 16, the Court unanimously departed from its 2014 decision in P v Cheshire West and Chester Council, concluding that the widely applied \u201cacid test\u201d was wrongly decided and inconsistent with Strasbourg case law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further information on this is available from 39 Essex Chambers (a legal chambers of barristers and associated staff).&nbsp; They have published early commentary and learning resources on the judgment, including a News Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.39essex.com\/our-thinking\/news\/three-members-of-chambers-appear-in-a-landmark-supreme-court-decision-redefining-the-understanding-of-article-5-echr-deprivations-of-liberty\/\">Landmark Supreme Court decision redefining Deprivation of Liberty<\/a> and a Webinar recording: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.39essex.com\/events\/the-end-of-the-cheshire-west-era-the-supreme-courts-new-tests-for-objective-and-subjective-deprivations-of-liberty\/\">&#8220;The End of the Cheshire West Era: The Supreme Court&#8217;s New Tests for Objective and Subjective Deprivations of Liberty&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"page\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1784622623\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Latest News\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2026: Supreme Court Overturns Cheshire West &#8211; A change to Deprivation of Liberty Law On 2nd June 2026, the Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment reshaping the legal framework for deprivation of liberty under Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), bringing an end to the long\u2011standing \u201cCheshire West\u201d approach. In a Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026]&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1556","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1556\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}