The long-awaited judgment from Baker J following up on AJ is now out: RD & Ors (Duties and Powers of Relevant Person’s Representatives and Section … Read More ›
Category: Deprivation of liberty
With thanks to Richard Charlton for providing me with the transcript of the judgment in this case, the decision in P v A Local Authority … Read More ›
In AG v BMBC & Anor [2016] EWCOP 37, District Judge Bellamy has given some rare, and useful, clarification as to the seriousness of the … Read More ›
In a judgment from a case heard prior to the decision in Re SRK but delivered afterwards (without referring to it) Senior Judge Lush has … Read More ›
In Staffordshire County Council v SRK & Ors [2016] EWCOP 27, Charles J has grappled with the thorny question of when the state’s positive obligations … Read More ›
A cross-post here to my fellow author Sophy Miles’ excellent post on the Court of Protection Handbook site on the two judgments handed down today … Read More ›
In Birmingham City Council v D [2016] EWCOP 8, the sequel to a case discussed here, Keehan J has held: “however close the parents are to their … Read More ›
Cases are coming out left, right and centre at the moment, and with other commitments, it is not possible to write about them in the … Read More ›
In an important judgment handed down this morning, R (LF) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner South London [2015] EWHC 2990 (Admin), the Divisional Court … Read More ›
A short note to say that the Court of Appeal has allowed (by consent) the appeal against the decision of Mostyn J in the KW … Read More ›