Following the recent – deeply troubling – case involving Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, Hayden J has had to… Read more
Tag: practice and procedure
Not only inimical… but potentially fatal, an update
Further to the judgment in Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v H [2020] EWCOP 5, discussed here, it… Read more
Serious Medical Treatment – Practice Guidance
The Vice-President of the Court of Protection, Hayden J has published guidance on serious medical treatment applications in the Court… Read more
Deprivation of liberty in the community – how not to apply to court
The frankly astonishing case of LB Barnet v JDO & Ors [2019] EWCOP 47 reads as an object lesson in… Read more
The inherent jurisdiction and costs
In Re PR (Application under the inherent jurisdiction: Costs) [2019] EWHC 2800 (Fam), Cobb J has confirmed that applications made… Read more
Will, preferences, amputation – and the need for early involvement of the court
The decision of Lieven J in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust v PW [2019] EWCOP 10[1] is of importance for… Read more
Mental Health Tribunal rule changes abandoned
The minutes of the Tribunal Procedure Committee in July have just been published and show that controversial proposed rule changes… Read more
The Skripals before the Court of Protection – more detailed analysis
The Court of Protection was thrust into the centre of a major international incident in SSHD v Sergei Skripal; SSHD v… Read more
Welfare cases in the Court of Protection: the real story
Once again we are all indebted to Cardiff Law School for further research about the use of the Court of… Read more
Rule 3A representatives, family members (and the ‘obiter trap’)
District Judge Bellamy has very recently (20 September) added to the small but important body of case-law concerning Rule 3A… Read more