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Category: Practice and Procedure


Closed material and parallel proceedings – Henke J provides a route map

Posted on 8 May 2024

Henke J has followed the Closed Hearings and Closed Material Guidance ([2023] EWCOP 6) and produced a judgment “to enable disclosure… Read more

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Court of Protection Handbook update May 2024

Posted on 26 April 2024 Updated on 26 April 2024

A few days early (next week is particularly busy for me), the May 2024 quarterly update to the Court of… Read more

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Revoking a deputyship – are the Court of Protection’s powers constrained?

Posted on 26 April 2024

In CL v Swansea Bay University Health Board & Ors [2024] EWCOP 22 Theis J has confirmed that that the… Read more

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Serious medical treatment – the importance of the public record

Posted on 22 April 2024

In 2014, a (relatively) very long time ago, Sir James Munby, then President of the Court of Protection, issued guidance… Read more

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Don’t ignore the Serious Medical Treatment Guidance – but let’s be clear about what the law requires

Posted on 4 February 2024 Updated on 16 April 2024

This is a post co-written by Tor Butler-Cole KC and I, prompted by the decision in GUP v EUP and… Read more

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Mental disorder, medical evidence and deprivation of liberty

Posted on 7 January 2024 Updated on 15 January 2024

In Stockport MBC v KB [2023] EWCOP 58, HHJ Burrows addressed two questions in relating to ‘community DoL’ applications that… Read more

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‘Two Ps’ – navigating two sets of best interests

Posted on 17 October 2023 Updated on 30 October 2023

In HH v Hywel DDa University Health Board & Ors [2023] EWCOP 18, Francis J gave a clear and detailed… Read more

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Appeals from personal welfare decisions – the Court of Appeal allocates the costs

Posted on 15 October 2023

In Re VA (Medical Treatment) [2023] EWCA Civ 1190, the Court of Appeal considered an appeal by a litigant in… Read more

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Committal hearings in the Court of Protection – publicity and complexity

Posted on 21 July 2023 Updated on 24 July 2023

In Esper v NHS NW London ICB (Appeal : Anonymity in Committal Proceedings) [2023] EWCOP 29, Poole J addressed the… Read more

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Litigation friends – their duties and discharge: putting right a serious misstep

Posted on 10 July 2023

Major v Kirishana [2023] EWHC 1593 (KB) is a distinctly troubling case, in that it involved – at one stage… Read more

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RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • Steven Maile & Anor v Ruth Elizabeth Maile & Ors 6 October 2025
  • Andrew Morris Jenkins & Anor v Sarah Caroline Ingham Evans 3 October 2025
  • Carl Gardner, Deceased (Duration of Transparency Order), Re 24 September 2025
  • Darlington Borough Council v AW & Ors 22 September 2025
  • Lioubov Macpherson v Sunderland City Council 9 September 2025
  • BRO, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department 26 August 2025
  • W, Re: Capacity to Engage in Sexual Relations & Marry 26 August 2025
  • The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v YD & Others (Refusal of Withdrawal of Treatment) 12 August 2025
  • London Borough of X v Mrs Z & Anor 31 July 2025
  • TLA v Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust 29 July 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Steven Maile & Anor v Ruth Elizabeth Maile & Ors 6 October 2025
  • Rohit Kulkarni v Gwent Holdings Limited & Anor 26 September 2025
  • Darlington Borough Council v AW & Ors 22 September 2025
  • Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council v The Mother & Ors 19 September 2025
  • West Berkshire Council v Mother & Ors 16 September 2025
  • London Borough of Redbridge v M & Ors 12 September 2025
  • Arion Kurtaj v R 11 September 2025
  • ER v NT (Need for fact finding hearing) 27 August 2025
  • BRO, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department 26 August 2025
  • Noel Anthony Clarke v Guardian News and Media Limited 22 August 2025

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Case (Capacity to instruct). Furley Page LLP v KFL [2025] EWHC 1703 (SCCO)
  • Case (Reporting restrictions). Norfolk County Council v CA & Ors [2025] EWCOP 16 (T3)
  • Case (Capacity, inherent jurisdiction). Norfolk County Council v CA [2024] EWCOP 64 (T3)
  • Case (Capacity to instruct). Aina Khan Law Ltd v Legal Ombudsman [2025] EWHC 1319 (Admin)
  • Case (Cross-sex hormones). ATN v BTN [2025] EWHC 1325 (Fam)
  • Case (Capacity to enter into contract). Rogers v Wills [2025] EWHC 1367 (Ch)
  • Case (Litigation capacity). Meric v Navis [2022] EWHC 221 (QB)
  • Case (Litigation capacity). Meric v Navis [2025] EWHC 759 (KB)
  • Case (Contempt sentencing). Norfolk County Council v Grady (Re CA) [2025] EWCOP 15 (T3)
  • ADHD and benefits. DWP, 'DMG memo 07/25: DLA - ADHD and severe mental impairment - effect of Upper Tribunal decision' (June 2025)

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