By Daniel Clark & Kim Dodd, 23rd December 2024 Like many other people, the protected party, CA, goes to church on Christmas morning and then enjoys spending the rest of the day with her family. She has done this for many years. Following court orders that all contact with her daughter must be supervised, aContinue reading ““Let us be alone as a family again”: An application for unsupervised contact at Christmas”
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Uncertainty about capacity for contact – and the inappropriateness of using the inherent jurisdiction
Mrs Justice Lieven remarked that “a vast amount of lawyers and legal expenses” were being used on “a relatively small amount of issues, with very fine distinctions” and that further assessment “does not feel to me, like a proportionate way forward, in a cash-strapped system” where in the case of P “there are already 8 lawyers and 3 detailed assessments”, pertinently adding “What benefit is there to P in all of this?”
“Grave concerns”: Funding arrangements, capacity for sex, and a TZ-style care plan
By Celia Kitzinger, 13th July 2022 The protected party at the centre of this case (COP 13627568 before DJ Glassbrook sitting in Northampton on 8th July 2022[i]) was described as “ a 19-year-old lady with diagnoses including Mild Learning Disability. Mixed Disorders of Conduct and Emotion, and Reactive Attachment Disorder of childhood”. Introducing the hearing for the benefitContinue reading ““Grave concerns”: Funding arrangements, capacity for sex, and a TZ-style care plan”
Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection 