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Challenging a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) Order

Emily Lister, Lasting Power of Attorney and Deputyship, News, Yvonne Carratt

DoLS ensures that people who can’t consent to their care arrangements in a care home or a hospital are protected if those arrangements “deprive them of their liberty”. For example, some-one has gone into hospital for a routine procedure. They take a while to recover and the medication or maybe a urinary tract infection is…