Court of Protection announcement on holding its hearings in public

by Julie Doughty | Jul 4, 2017 | Comment, Court of Protection, Transparency News, Trends

With many thanks to Barbara Rich for explaining what this all means for people involved in CoP cases. Context and background When the Court of Protection was established in its present form in 2007, the relevant court rules were written to cover two separate...

How (and why) to tweet from the ‘secret’ and ‘shadowy’ Court of Protection

by Guest Post | Jul 3, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Court of Protection

This is a guest post by Jenny Kitzinger, Professor at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and Celia Kitzinger, Professor in Sociology, University of York, co-founders of the Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre @CDOCuk...

Fact checking across the universe….

by reporting watch team | May 4, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, Notorious

As the song goes : Fact checking across the universe On the Starship Booker in search of the truth re Kirk Fact checking across the universe Only going forward to IPSO if he won’t amend his words Lt. Uhura, report. There’s Klingons on the starboard bow,...

Christopher Booker’s St George’s Day Myth

by Barbara Rich | Apr 23, 2017 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

[UPDATE 21 Jun 17 : Following the involvement of IPSO The Sunday Telegraph have agreed to correct factual inaccuracies in the column referred to below, and have published a statement of clarification. See here] The end of the “astonishing story” of Teresa Kirk and the...

Teresa Kirk and the Court of Protection – the end of an “astonishing story”

by Barbara Rich | Feb 20, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

On 14 February 2017, the Daily Mail reported on developments in a Court of Protection case that it has been following for some time: “an astonishing story that has come to represent all that is wrong with Britain’s shadowy Court of Protection.”  The story is that of...

The Daily Mail’s Court of Protection explainer : “What is the Court of Protection?”

by Lucy R | Jan 31, 2017 | Comment, Court of Protection

This is a post by Barbara Rich, originally published by her via twitter and kindly reproduced here with her permission. Barbara is a barrister in private practice at 5 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, London. The views she expresses are personal. The Daily Mail has...