A new (2024) edition of the Equal Treatment Bench Book (ETBB) has been published. As it notes in the preface: Treating people fairly requires awareness and … Read More ›
Tag: practice and procedure
Re PQ (Court Authorised Dol : Representation During Review Period) [2024] EWCOP 41 (T3), Poole J examined in some detail the requirements of Article 5(4) … Read More ›
Re AA (Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment: No Best Interests Decision) [2024] EWCOP 39 (T3) is a difficult case. It concerned a young man, AA, in … Read More ›
In LB Hackney v A, B and C [2024] EWCOP 33, John McKendrick KC has answered a question which, as he noted, had curiously not … Read More ›
What is the test to decide whether you can defend yourself against a charge that you are in contempt of court? That was the question … Read More ›
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation v The Mother of G [2024] EWHC 1288 (Fam) adds to the small but growing body of case-law … Read More ›
One of the most difficult areas where the law runs up against practical realities is in relation to addressing the consequences of a mental health … Read More ›
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of both the local authority and the Official Solicitor against the decision of Poole J in Re … Read More ›
EIn University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v HER & Anor [2024] EWCOP 25, Senior Judge Hilder had to consider what (if any) weight … Read More ›
Henke J has followed the Closed Hearings and Closed Material Guidance ([2023] EWCOP 6) and produced a judgment “to enable disclosure at an appropriate point in … Read More ›