Thank you for this excellent tribute, Joshua. I wasn’t in chambers with Sir James Munby or in his social circle but I appeared before him as an advocate in some Court of Protection cases, took an interest in his work on transparency, and after his retirement corresponded with him on some legal history topics of mutual interest and on his interventions in the debate on the Assisted Dying Bill. He liked to keep up with a range of views and ideas and his last email to me observed “what I refer to as the Commentariat and the Twitterati are so important”. Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues and may he rest in peace.
My memories of Munby go back to the early 1980s as junior barristers at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, where an extremely bright and energetic James would take charge of proceedings in a lively, inclusive and kindly way. Together with that Dickensian characteristic you mention, he will be remembered as a compassionate man and a truly fine judge.
Excellent piece - thank you! Munby was also influential in the development of ideas about capacity. He gave a lucid seminal lecture on capacity (DOI: 10.1258/mlj.2012.012013) in May 2012, published in the Medico-legal Journal. This involves discussion on regaining lost capacity, and has proved to be important clinically in capacity reports.
Thank you for this excellent tribute, Joshua. I wasn’t in chambers with Sir James Munby or in his social circle but I appeared before him as an advocate in some Court of Protection cases, took an interest in his work on transparency, and after his retirement corresponded with him on some legal history topics of mutual interest and on his interventions in the debate on the Assisted Dying Bill. He liked to keep up with a range of views and ideas and his last email to me observed “what I refer to as the Commentariat and the Twitterati are so important”. Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues and may he rest in peace.
My memories of Munby go back to the early 1980s as junior barristers at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, where an extremely bright and energetic James would take charge of proceedings in a lively, inclusive and kindly way. Together with that Dickensian characteristic you mention, he will be remembered as a compassionate man and a truly fine judge.
Excellent piece - thank you! Munby was also influential in the development of ideas about capacity. He gave a lucid seminal lecture on capacity (DOI: 10.1258/mlj.2012.012013) in May 2012, published in the Medico-legal Journal. This involves discussion on regaining lost capacity, and has proved to be important clinically in capacity reports.
Thank you for this beautiful piece. Do you know what happened to the girl X referred to in the judgment?
Thank you. I'm afraid not. Munby would not necessarily have known either if — for whatever reason — the case did not come back to court.