The Court of Appeal has made some very important observations about the role of judicial visits in Court of Protection cases. In Re AH (Serious … Read More ›
Tag: Best interests
In Hull City Council v A & Ors [2021] EWCOP 60, Poole J was concerned with – in effect – what was less bad: allowing a … Read More ›
In North West London Clinical Commissioning Group v GU [2021] EWCOP 59, Hayden J made a series of very powerful observations about the obligations imposed … Read More ›
What (if any) threshold needs to be satisfied before the Court of Protection can exercise its (relatively) newly discovered ‘contingency’ jurisdiction? This important question was … Read More ›
How does coercive control impact upon decision-making? And what can – and should – the courts do when the victim of coercive control cannot countenance … Read More ›
The (surprisingly) small body of case-law relating to advance decisions to refuse treatments has been added to by a judgment delivered by Poole J in … Read More ›
The Court of Protection braced itself when COVID-19 hit for decisions to be placed before it about the withdrawal of medical treatment, including potentially agonising … Read More ›
The National Mental Capacity Forum held a webinar on 15 June about preparing for the cliff-edge of 18. A recording of the webinar is available … Read More ›
A NHS Foundation Trust v An Expectant Mother [2021] EWCOP 33 has attracted considerable discussion. The case concerned an expectant woman aged 21 with what … Read More ›
The contours of the issue in A Local Authority v TA & Ors [2021] EWCOP 22 were sketched out economically in the opening paragraphs of … Read More ›