By Celia Kitzinger, 29th June 2025 It’s been more than 10 months since I applied to discharge the transparency order in a s.21A case concerning a woman in her 90s who was deprived of her liberty in a care home. She died in January 2023. Her son wants to publish his account of “over fiveContinue reading “Silence from HHJ Rowland: A transparency fail”
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Extraordinary restrictions – “family are the experts”
By Celia Kitzinger, 14th April 2024 In an earlier blog post (“Unusual restrictions” for a 17-year-old), Claire Martin reported feeling “very alarmed” by restrictions to which this young man is subject, in self-contained padded rooms, behind a locked door, with 4:1 supervision. The judge in that hearing, DJ Glassbrook, had said these were “extraordinary restrictions which requireContinue reading “Extraordinary restrictions – “family are the experts””
Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection 