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...

Coercing the obdurate (and other exercises in futility)…

by reporting watch team | Jan 31, 2017 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

We have previously written about the case of MM (an incapacitated adult living in Portugal in a care home) and Mrs Kirk, who was imprisoned for refusing to assist the court with his return to be cared for back in Devon where he had previously been living. Our first...

Transparency in CoP and Family Courts – the President’s view.

by Sarah P | Jan 24, 2017 | Court of Protection

On January 23rd 2017, the President of the Family Division and the Court of Protection, Sir James Munby, visited the Bristol Civil Justice Centre to have general discussion with local professionals about recent developments for the Court of Protection. There is...