In QJ v A Local Authority Hayden J was considering the situation of an 87 year old man with vascular… Read more
Refusing food, (in)capacity and coming to court
Category: Case comments
Not only inimical… but potentially fatal: medical treatment cases and delay
In Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v H [2020] EWCOP 5, the delay in bringing and then resolving… Read more
Contingencies, capacity and Caesarean sections
In GSTT & SLAM v R [2020] EWCOP 4, Hayden J has come back to the extremely thorny question of what… Read more
Fluctuating capacity – another judicial take
In Cheshire West And Chester Council v PWK [2019] EWCOP 57, Sir Mark Hedley had to consider (in the context… Read more
Will, preferences and estrangement
In A Local Authority v PS & HS [2019] EWCOP 60, the court had to decide upon an 80 year-old… Read more
RPRs, attorneys, BIAs and legal aid
In The London Borough of Hillingdon v JV & Ors [2019] EWCOP 61, decided at the end of last year but… Read more
The MHA, force-feeding and best interests
In JK v A Local Health Board [2019] EWHC 67 (Fam), Lieven J had to grapple with the intersection between the… Read more
Foreign powers of representation – making them effective in England & Wales
In Re Various applications concerning foreign representative powers [2019] EWCOP 52. Senior Judge Hilder has returned to the complex issues… Read more
Court of Protection Handbook – first quarterly update and new precedent letters
The first quarterly update to the Court of Protection Handbook can now be found here. Although it is primarily of… Read more
Deprivation of liberty in the community – how not to apply to court
The frankly astonishing case of LB Barnet v JDO & Ors [2019] EWCOP 47 reads as an object lesson in… Read more