by Guest Post | Jun 10, 2022 | Comment, Court of Protection, Transparency News
This guest post by Celia Kitzinger is an APPENDIX to her post When family members apply to become parties: A hidden and “private” (but not sinister and secret) hearing Several of my previous blog posts lament the fact that so many Court of Protection hearings are...
by Paul M | May 5, 2022 | Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
A cheery post on the HM Courts and Tribunals Service blog recently announced that developers were now working on on Making hearing lists more accessible to court and tribunal users This is long overdue. HMCTS has had court listings on its list, as it were, ever since...
by reporting watch team | Dec 31, 2021 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Resources
UPDATE 25.03.24: We’ve now seen that there’s a revised 2023 version here. We’ve just noticed that a revised version of this lengthy document (566 pages!) has been issued online, so we looked for any references to transparency. What we found is brief...
by Julie D | Dec 21, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
On 24 November, the BBC broadcast the story above. The Court of Protection (CoP) judgment, PH & Anor v Brighton And Hove City Council [2021] EWCOP 63, has now been published on BAILII. The full name of the case is: PH and RH v (1) Brighton and Hove City Council...
by Julie D | Apr 22, 2021 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This newly published judgment, Re P (Discharge of Party) [2021] EWCA Civ 512 is interesting because ‘It appears that this is the first case in which a special advocate has been instructed in the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal’ [para 5]. A special advocate is a...
by Guest Post | Oct 5, 2020 | Court of Protection, Explanation
This is a guest post by Alex Ruck Keene, a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers who specialises in Court of Protection work. In a very unusual case, P v Griffith [2020] EWCOP 46, the Court of Protection has sentenced a woman, a Ms Griffith, to 12 months imprisonment for...
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