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Mental Capacity Law Cases
KK v Leeds City Council
In this case, Cobb J had to consider whether P’s maternal aunt should be joined to welfare proceedings. The aunt, KK, had been P’s main carer for almost all of… Read more »
Griffith v P (By Her Litigation Friend the Official Solicitor)
The Court of Appeal has had little hesitation dismissing ([2020] EWCA Civ 1675) the appeal by Dahlia Griffith against her conviction and sentence of imprisonment for contempt, on which we reported… Read more »
JMH v CFH, SAP
In this case, the court had to decide what costs a litigant in person is entitled to in the Court of Protection. The first point that was argued was made… 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 »
PLK & Ors (Court of Protection: Costs)
Summary In an important decision, the Senior Court Costs Office has looked at the method of assessment of the hourly rates claimed by Deputies and, in particular, at whether those… Read more »
Penntrust Ltd v West Berkshire District Council & Anor
Summary Senior Judge Hilder has returned to the vexed question of Practice Direction 19B and fixed costs in the Court of Protection. In its current iteration, PD19B provides that “where the… 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 »
Re SF (Injunctive Relief)
Summary In Re SF (Injunctions) [2020] EWCOP 19, Keehan J was concerned with a young woman, SF, who had a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and also had learning… Read more »
A Healthcare, B NHS Trust v CC
Summary This case concerned a 34-year-old man (‘CC’) with psychotic depression, mixed personality disorder who was deaf, had diabetes and was detained under s.3 of the Mental Health Act 1983…. Read more »
Re Various applications concerning foreign representative powers
Summary In this case, Senior Judge Hilder has returned to the somewhat complex issues that arise where an attorney seeks to use a power of representation granted in a foreign… Read more »
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