Despite the obvious importance of establishing the legal basis of P’s confinement (is it or isn’t it a ‘deprivation of liberty’?), this judge – like others I’ve watched since AGNI – gave priority to considering whether P’s residence and care arrangements were in his best interests and the least restrictive necessary.
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Polly and AGNI: A family reflection on deprivation of liberty
Polly has lived her life in the context of both the ‘ordinary usage’ of ‘liberty’ with its powerful social and political symbolism, and also the more peculiar legal definitions created by judicial interpretation of mental capacity legislation.
AGNI: A common-sense judgment or agony?
For people who consider their loved ones well cared for, safe, and happy, the pre‑AGNI deprivation of liberty (DoL) processes were nonsensical and often intrusive. For that reason, the current judgment brings a sense of relief to many. But for other individuals, whose daily lives are dictated and constrained by institutional or quasi‑institutional regimes, with simple choices removed from their decisional space, and an array of human‑rights abuses hidden behind closed cultures, this judgment may have a more detrimental impact.
Overturning Cheshire West and my Grandma’s experience of ‘the death house’ care home
Born in 1930, my Grandma was funny, cheeky, loving and firmly opinionated. She had been diagnosed with end-stage heart failure and vascular dementia, with fluctuating capacity and had been living happily in a small nursing home…
The Supreme Court’s judgment is an opportunity returning us to common sense
by Lorraine Currie, 11th June 2026 The image accompanying this blog has been provided by Lorraine’s daughter: the Magic Artist, Grace. To see her artwork (and for details about how to purchase it), you can visit her website: https://gracecurrie.art Editorial Note: this is the first of a series of ‘commentary’ blog posts we plan to publishContinue reading “The Supreme Court’s judgment is an opportunity returning us to common sense”
Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection 