In Re Various applications concerning foreign representative powers [2019] EWCOP 52. Senior Judge Hilder has returned to the complex issues… Read more
Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms: Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children Post-Great Ormond Street v Gard (edited by… Read more
The first quarterly update to the Court of Protection Handbook can now be found here. Although it is primarily of… Read more
The frankly astonishing case of LB Barnet v JDO & Ors [2019] EWCOP 47 reads as an object lesson in… Read more
Prompted by work done for the case of Re D, in which the Supreme Court gave judgment ([2019] UKSC 42)… Read more
In Re PR (Application under the inherent jurisdiction: Costs) [2019] EWHC 2800 (Fam), Cobb J has confirmed that applications made… Read more
The Royal College of Physicians are in the process of updating their guidance on the management of patients in prolonged… Read more
The October 2019 Mental Capacity Report will shortly be with subscribers. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare… Read more
In AC v Patricia Hickey General Solicitor and Ors & AC v Fitzpatrick and Ors [2019] IESC 73, the Irish… Read more
The CPRD Committee issued its most recent concluding observations in September 2019, on Albania, Australia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greece, India,… Read more