Tag Archives: HHJ Tolson

How much court ‘oversight’ should there be in long-running COP cases? 

By Claire Martin, 6th November 2024 UPDATE: An application to name the local authority (originally prevented by the terms of the Transparency Order) was successful. The local authority is Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead . This hearing (COP 11868452), before HHJ Tolson, on 23rd September 2024, at Reading County Court, was listed as  a two-hour ‘fact-finding’Continue reading “How much court ‘oversight’ should there be in long-running COP cases? “

Struggling with transparency and a family under stress

By Celia Kitzinger, 9 June 2023 I’ve divided this blog into two parts.  If you can’t bear to hear me complaining (again) about the lack of transparency in the Court of Protection, please skip directly to Part 2, which reports on the substance of the hearing.   I arrived late to the hearing (see Part 1) andContinue reading “Struggling with transparency and a family under stress”