Anonymising P and his family in the courtroom: An unnecessary and unhelpful precaution

By Amanda Hill, 21st July 2024 This blog is about an all-remote hearing before a judge (HHJ Brown) who ruled – very unusually for a Court of Protection hearing – that no parties’ names should be used in the course of the hearing. She asked for the protected party (P) to be refered to with an initial all the time, rather than by his first name.  SheContinue reading “Anonymising P and his family in the courtroom: An unnecessary and unhelpful precaution”