In a decision handed down with considerable speed (the hearing being on 10-11 May 2023, and judgment being delivered on… Read more
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust v HJ [2023] EWFC 92 concerned the question of whether specific authorisation is required… Read more
In Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust & Anor v RL & Ors [2023] EWCOP 22 (a decision handed down in… Read more
In the conjoined appeals of Abbasi and Haastrup [2023] EWCA Civ 331, the Court of Appeal has grappled with the… Read more
In NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB v JH [2023] EWCOP 3, Hayden J was asked to consider whether an advance decision… Read more
Hayden J had the chance in Re RN [2022] EWCOP 53 to put comprehensively to bed a suggestion that it… Read more
For several days, the case of Archie Battersbee has been a lead story in the media in England & Wales. … Read more
The Court of Appeal has made some very important observations about the role of judicial visits in Court of Protection… Read more
In North West London Clinical Commissioning Group v GU [2021] EWCOP 59, Hayden J made a series of very powerful… Read more
The (surprisingly) small body of case-law relating to advance decisions to refuse treatments has been added to by a judgment… Read more