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“Getting it right first time around”: How members of the public contribute to the judicial “learning experience” about transparency orders

By Celia Kitzinger, 7th June 2024 We operate a “Watch List” at the Open Justice Court of Protection Project. We do this because the Court of Protection doesn’t always get things right first time around. Sometimes we find repeated problems with how particular judges’ hearings are listed (e.g. they don’t have descriptors to tell us what they’reContinue reading ““Getting it right first time around”: How members of the public contribute to the judicial “learning experience” about transparency orders”

Celia Kitzinger, 16 May 2024 There are more than 500 centenarians in Devon, and she’s one of them. Until September 2023, she lived at home with her daughter. Now she’s deprived of her liberty in a care home, where she’s been for around six months, following discharge from hospital after a fall. She wants toContinue reading “Centenarian challenges deprivation of liberty – and judge manages transparency failings efficiently”