London Borough of Barnet – Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection

Renal Failure Case Returns: Dialysis problems and Barnet’s non-compliance with a court order

Non-compliance from the public body was dealt with by judicial expressions of incomprehension (“I’m struggling to understand…”) about the Local Authority’s failure to act and about their failure to apologise for not doing so. This led to an acknowledgement of (some) fault by Barnet…

‘Refusing to engage’: A first hearing

By Celia Kitzinger, 11th June 2023 Cases in the Court of Protection often run for years – especially in the county courts, which is means the majority of all hearings. So we often find ourselves watching a third, or a sixth, or an eighth hearing in a single case, without having observed any of theContinue reading “‘Refusing to engage’: A first hearing”