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Cases
News, Blogs & Articles
Re W (A Child)
Summary This case, in public law proceedings concerning a disabled 12 year old boy, is nevertheless of interest to Court of Protection practitioners as it concerns the familiar situation in… Read more »
Bell & Anor v The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Summary[1] In Bell & Anor v The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWCA Civ 1363, the Court of Appeal roundly upheld the appeal of the Tavistock and Portman… Read more »
R (Morahan) v Her Majesty’s Assistant Coroner for West London
Summary Tanya Morahan was aged 34 when she died of cocaine and morphine toxicity. Over the preceding 10 years she experienced mental illness and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. On… Read more »
R v Rebelo
Summary In a very unusual criminal case, fascinating – essentially existential – questions arose as to the interrelationship between capacity and autonomy. Mr Rebelo ran a business selling a chemical,… Read more »
A Local Authority v M, F, A and B
These family proceedings considered whether two young children should be placed in long-term foster care or for adoption. But we cover it because useful lessons were identified which can be… Read more »
A NHS Trust v X
Summary[1] This case is about whether X, a young woman declared to be Gillick competent and “mature and wise beyond her years”, should be afforded the exclusive right to decide… Read more »
Re JB (Costs)
In this case, the Court of Protection had been asked to take aggressive steps in terms of service provision. In Re JB, the local authority applicant in question had gone… Read more »
FS v RS and JS
As Sir James Munby noted at the outset of his judgment in FS v RS and JS [2020] EWFC 63: “[t]his is a most unusual case. Indeed, so far as… Read more »
Re ND (Court of Protection: Costs and Declarations)
Summary In this case, the Court of Protection has alighted upon procedural failings by a local authority to ground the making of declarations as to failures of that authority to… Read more »
King v The Wright Roofing Company Ltd
Summary In this personal injury case, Kerr J had to decide whether the claimant had capacity to conduct the proceedings, and whether he had capacity to manage his property and… Read more »
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