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“Let us be alone as a family again”: An application for unsupervised contact at Christmas

By Daniel Clark & Kim Dodd, 23rd December 2024 Like many other people, the protected party, CA, goes to church on Christmas morning and then enjoys spending the rest of the day with her family. She has done this for many years. Following court orders that all contact with her daughter must be supervised, aContinue reading ““Let us be alone as a family again”: An application for unsupervised contact at Christmas”

Still no exit plan and “we are some way away from the ideal scenario”: Re A (Covert medication: Closed Proceedings) [2022] EWCOP 44

By Celia Kitzinger, 12th November 2023 Update: On 20th March 2024, the judge declared that it was in A’s best interests to return home, whether or not she voluntarily agreed to take the medications prescribed for her (hormone treatment for her Primary Ovarian Insufficiency). See A, Re (Covert Medication: Residence) [2024] EWCOP 19. This judgment is beingContinue reading “Still no exit plan and “we are some way away from the ideal scenario”: Re A (Covert medication: Closed Proceedings) [2022] EWCOP 44″

An ‘impasse’ on face-to-face contact between mother and daughter

By Celia Kitzinger, 25 June 2023 This is a tragic and seemingly intractable case. A mother and daughter love each other and want to be together.  The daughter, FP, is deprived of her liberty in a residential nursing home.  The placement is some distance away from where her mother lives with her husband (FP’s stepfather) –Continue reading “An ‘impasse’ on face-to-face contact between mother and daughter”

Observing my first hearing: Plan to terminate contact if father is abusive to carers

For the next 12 minutes he produced a torrent of ‘colourful’ language directly insulting the judge, alongside allegations of staff abusing P, not washing him, not feeding him properly and denying the father access to his son. The Judge remained calm and did not display much of a reaction (apart from one brief wry smile and raised eyebrows) despite some pretty offensive insults!