Cobb J is shortly to take his position on the Court of Appeal. The decision in Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council v LS [2025] EWCOP 10 … Read More ›
Category: Case comments
NHS South East London Integrated Care Board v JP & Ors [2025] EWCOP 4 T3 and [2025] EWCOP 8 (T3) are a pair of cases … Read More ›
In Irwin Mitchell Trust Corporation Ltd v KS & Ors [2025] EWCOP 7 (T2), Senior Judge Hilder had to grapple with a question that had … Read More ›
When and under what circumstances it is legitimate not to treat those with anorexia is a very contentious topic, and is under particular scrutiny at … Read More ›
West Sussex County Council v AB & Anor [2025] EWCA Civ 132, concerned a very challenging situation. It concerned a 17 year old woman with … Read More ›
Capacity, insight and professional cultures – an important new decision from the Court of Protection
CT v London Borough of Lambeth & Anor [2025] EWCOP 6 (T3) is in many ways the companion piece to Re Thirumalesh (Dec’d) [2024] EWCA Civ … Read More ›
Another in the Lieven J-inspired line of challenges to Cheshire West can be found in Re V (Profound Disabilities) [2025] EWHC 200 (Fam), concerning a … Read More ›
Individual decision-making and its complexities was very much in the spotlight this week in the context of the oral evidence sessions held by the Public … Read More ›
MacPherson v Sunderland City Council [2024] EWCA Civ 1579 is another chapter in the very long-running saga concerning contempt proceedings against the appellant, the mother … Read More ›
Ahead of more detailed coverage of the nuances of this complicated case in the February 2025 Mental Capacity Report, it is worth highlighting the ‘lessons … Read More ›