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TIRE v Carmarthenshire County Council [2024] EWCOP 81 (T2) is, as far as I know (but we would welcome correction)… Read more

The Law Commission’s Disabled Children’s Social Care project – on which I was a consultant – published its final report… Read more

The new (2025, 5th) edition of the Court of Protection Handbook is now available, and accompanying website has been updated… Read more

As some may know, I am a member of the Complex Life and Death Decisions Group (CLADD).  CLADD is a… Read more

[The Law Commission’s Disabled Children’s Social Care project – on which I was a consultant – published its final report… Read more

The Law Commission of England & Wales published its 14th programme of law reform on 4 September – i.e. its… Read more

The September 2025 Report is now out. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty… Read more

The Social Care Institute for Excellence is not normally an alarmist body, which makes its recent (26 August 2025) statement… Read more

The flipside of the intense focus on the wishes, feelings, beliefs and values of the person required by s.4 MCA… Read more

Patricia’s Father & Ors v Patricia & Ors [2025] EWCOP 30 (T3) is a challenging case at a number of… Read more