By Celia Kitzinger, 7th January 2025 The protected party was in court from her hospital bed on Christmas Eve. She’s been in hospital since 10th December 2024 with pneumonia and empyema. She’s also HIV-positive and “significantly immunosuppressed” (she’s not been taking her anti-viral medications). She’s inconsistent as to whether or not she agrees to accept investigations and treatment.Continue reading “Urgent Serious Medical Treatment on Christmas Eve”
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Transparency requires free and timely public access to skeleton arguments in the Court of Appeal
By Celia Kitzinger, 28th July 2024 Why were members of the public asked to pay £626 to read skeleton arguments from a case in the Court of Appeal? Not me. I got them for free after I asked the lawyers, one of whom asked the judges during the course of the hearing whether I could haveContinue reading “Transparency requires free and timely public access to skeleton arguments in the Court of Appeal”
Court-authorised caesarean with chemical and physical restraint if required: A 14-minute final hearing
By Claire Martin and Nell Robson, 13th June 2024 This is a case we’ve blogged about before: “Caesarean: A directions hearing”. At that point, just under a week before, Deputy High Court Judge Victoria Butler-Cole KC, asked for a full-day final hearing to deal with an application for a court-authorised caesarean for a woman who (probably)Continue reading “Court-authorised caesarean with chemical and physical restraint if required: A 14-minute final hearing”
Family tragedy and institutional delay in best interests decisions about life-prolonging treatment
By Celia Kitzinger and Jenny Kitzinger, 9th April 2024 The judgment has subsequently been published here: NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board v PC & Ors [2024] EWCOP 31 (T3) In July 2020, a woman identified in the judgment as “PC”, collapsed at home with a cardiac arrest. This was totally unexpected: she was otherwise fit andContinue reading “Family tragedy and institutional delay in best interests decisions about life-prolonging treatment”
Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection 