Aberdeenshire Council v SF (No 4) (Residence) [2024] EWCOP 67 (T3) is the most recent in a long-running series of… Read more
Best interests, wishes and feelings: a worked example in an imperfect world
Category: Welfare
What place diagnosis? Learning Disability, deafness and the Court of Protection
The case of TW v Middlesbrough Council [2023] EWCOP 30 raises an important issue about diagnosis in the context of Learning… Read more
Fighting ever increasing odds against a draconian intervention – and when is a without notice hearing acceptable?
In Hull City Council v A & Ors [2021] EWCOP 60, Poole J was concerned with – in effect – what… Read more
Capacity, autism and indoctrination – a careful judicial navigation of a minefield
Re EOA [2021] EWCOP 20 is a complex case in relation to a 19 year old man, of wider interest… Read more
What does Article 8 add to best interests? (clue – it definitely helps)
Re CVF [2020] EWCOP 65 concerned the capacity and best interests of a 29 year old woman, CVF, with diagnoses… Read more
A complex and very personal cocktail of capacity and vulnerability – Baker J on the case
[I am happy to host here a guest post by Zena Soormally, Associate Solicitor at Simpson Millar and Andrew Bagchi QC of 1… Read more