The flipside of the intense focus on the wishes, feelings, beliefs and values of the person required by s.4 MCA… Read more
Patricia’s Father & Ors v Patricia & Ors [2025] EWCOP 30 (T3) is a challenging case at a number of… Read more
For years, lawyers and clinicians have thrown around the term ‘Gillick competence’ as if it were a universal test to… Read more
The Court of Protection on occasion has to deal with those who are determined to stymie its jurisdiction. In Kirk… Read more
In Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v FF & Anor [2025] EWCOP 26 (T3), McKendrick J made some… Read more
Re AB (Disclosure of Position Statements) [2025] EWCOP 25 (T3) concerns a question of increasing importance given (in particular) the… Read more
Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board v AB & Anor [2025] EWCOP 24 (T3) is a judgment about case management in a… Read more
In Re A (Habitual Residence) [2025] EWCOP 22 (T2), HHJ Millar set out a helpful worked example of determining whether… Read more
The problem of the retrospective consideration of capacity troubled Costs Judge Whalan in Furley Page LLP v KFL [2025] EWHC… Read more
As Deputy Master Marzec put it at the start of her judgment in Appiah & Anor v Leeds City Council… Read more