I am speaking at the Court of Protection Practitioners Association London Sub-Group event on 20 April on News from the Rule Committee. Also speaking, on the transparency pilot, is Brian Farmer from the Press Association. The meeting, which runs from 5 to 7 pm at 39 Essex Chambers, is free for CoPPA members, and £10 for […]
Posts tagged Court of Protection practice and procedure
What to do, what to do – the pr...
A cross-post here to my fellow author Sophy Miles’ excellent post on the Court of Protection Handbook site on the two judgments handed down today by Charles J in the latest round of the Re X fall-out. Re JM makes incredibly stark the difficulty of securing rights in an age of austerity; Re VE gives […]
Transparency guidance on anonymisatio...
Following feedback that the procedure being adopted to ensure that parties were anonymised was perhaps a little too over-zealous, new guidance has been issued. If further issues such as these are identified, the guidance accompanying the pilot will no doubt be subject to further amendment in due course as all those involved continue to find […]
Transparency – it’s all g...
The Transparency Pilot that we have covered previously is now finalised and will be starting on 29 January (NB, this means that the first pilot order can be made on 29 January providing for a hearing to be held in public subject to reporting restrictions, not that the first hearing will necessarily be on that […]
St George’s and the powers of the cou...
Newton J has very recently authorised the publication of the order he made in St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust v P & Q [2015] EWCOP 42 (discussed here). The order makes clear what we had suspected must have been the case (but was made inadvertently ambiguous in the judgment), namely that he did not order […]
Next month’s newsletter is gett...
The judiciary have been going into overdrive. Since my last mini news update, not only will be reporting upon the vitally important case of Re N and its re-affirmation of the centrality of P in decision-making, we will also have: Re AG [2015] EWCOP 78 on case management, when to have a fact-finding hearing (and […]
New Rule and Form changes are here
A reminder that today, 1 July, is a big day at COP Towers because: (1) The remainder of the first round of COPR rule changes come into force today: an unofficial compilation of the amendments with a commentary by me can be found here; (2) New Practice Directions are in force to accompany the Rules, available here; (3) […]
Deprivation of liberty developments
The guidance note previously prepared by the editors of the Mental Capacity Law Newsletters has now been updated to take account of this week’s decision of the Court of Appeal in Re X, and can be found here. It is likely to be further updated in due course as we get clarity as to what […]
Re X – the Court of Appeal pronounces
A cross-post to the Court of Protection Handbook site for those of you after clarity as to what the Court of Appeal decided today in the Re X appeal.
Precedent orders – now updated
As some will have already discovered, the COP Handbook website includes a suite of (free) precedent orders. We have recently updated a number of the precedent orders for welfare proceedings in light of case-law such as Re MN, and also taken the opportunity to add a new single ‘short order’ for authority to convey a person (for […]
