By Celia Kitzinger, 9th March 2024 Readers of The Times probably imagine theirs is a superior sort of newspaper. It’s the oldest national daily newspaper in the UK (founded in 1785) and has been widely seen as the “paper of record” on public life. It proclaims itself to be a source of news that readersContinue reading “Outsourcing legal reporting to a Christian campaign group: Churnalism in “The Times””
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Removing P to another country to evade the orders of the Court
By Celia Kitzinger, 9th July 2023 If you believe the authorities are acting against the best interests of your vulnerable relative, you might contemplate escaping with them to another country, in the hope of taking the person outside the reach of the Court of Protection. I often hear conversations about this. For most people it isn’t reallyContinue reading “Removing P to another country to evade the orders of the Court”
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!
Coercive and controlling behaviour continuing after brain injury: Matters of finance and contact
By Joanna Booth, 30th November 2022 The person at the centre of this case (PB) is a 65-old woman who had a brain haemorrhage in 2018. This was so severe that it left her with a lasting brain injury and significantly impaired cognitive functions and since leaving hospital she’s been looked after in a specialistContinue reading “Coercive and controlling behaviour continuing after brain injury: Matters of finance and contact”
A ‘hypothetical’ marriage and a snowball rolling downhill
There was a plan to provide sex and relationship education, but the COVID-19 pandemic and a failure to locate educational providers intervened and so it was sometime later when an education programme to support capacity in relation to sex and marriage was completed. A newly appointed expert then assessed P again and said that P had still not gained capacity in these areas.
Capacity and elective caesarean
By Samantha Halliday, 26 January 2022 I have written extensively about court-authorised obstetric intervention[i] but I’ve always relied upon reported decisions. I am acutely aware that as Rosie Harding has commented: “When only the judgment is available for academic scrutiny, we cannot be clear as to the ways that the various submissions were framed”. That being the case,Continue reading “Capacity and elective caesarean”
A COVID Vaccination hearing: Observations of an aspiring medical student
By Eloise Crang, 19th October 2021 I’m a medical applicant, currently sitting my last year of A-levels studying Maths, Chemistry, and Biology, so I was delighted at the opportunity to observe a real-life medical ethics case in play. Having mainly read about these sorts of scenarios in medical books, or when revising for the situationalContinue reading “A COVID Vaccination hearing: Observations of an aspiring medical student”
When another assessment is not needed: Best interests decision-making for a patient with a prolonged disorder of consciousness
s going to be, what would he have decided? He was not going to decide that on the basis of a SMART score.”
Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection 