As I noted this morning, the President and Vice-President of the Court of Protection, Sir James Munby and Mr Justice Charles respectively, gave evidence to … Read More ›
Author: Alex RK
The ripples still continue to spread from the House of Lords Select Committee’s report on the MCA 2005. Lord Hardie, the Chair of the Committee, … Read More ›
I am very grateful indeed to Gordon Ashton OBE, the editor of Jordans’ Court of Protection Practice, and one of the prime movers behind the … Read More ›
Simon v Byford [2014] EWCA Civ 280 Summary This is the appeal from the decision of Nicholas Strauss QC that we covered last year in … Read More ›
In this post, I seek to summarise – and where relevant – comment upon each of the Chapters in the report. This can be no … Read More ›
Summary The House of Lords Committee appointed to consider the MCA 2005 has now reported. After a mammoth evidence gathering exercise (the transcripts of the … Read More ›
Dunhill v Burgin (Nos 1 and 2) [2014] UKSC 18 Summary Ms Dunhill sought to have a compromise agreement into which she had entered declared … Read More ›
Since the widely-reported case of Ms Pacchieri (Re AA [2012] EWHC 4378 (COP)), there has been a string of cases before the Court of Protection … Read More ›
A really depressing report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) and the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has just been published on the LGO website. … Read More ›
Fischer v Diffley [2013] EWHC 4567 (Ch) Summary This Chancery Division case is of some interest because it is the first one of which I … Read More ›