Beyond the COP there’s a large and unedifying catalogue of Civil Restraint Orders against people who’ve dedicated themselves to using the law as a weapon against those with whom they disagree. Ironically, quite a few of them are lawyers...
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Courts without accountability
Beyond the COP there’s a large and unedifying catalogue of Civil Restraint Orders against people who’ve dedicated themselves to using the law as a weapon against those with whom they disagree. Ironically, quite a few of them are lawyers...
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/03/30/j...
Judge refuses to make Civil Restraint Order against P’s father
By @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Judge refuses to make Civil Restraint Order against P’s father
By @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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BA (A Child), Re (DOLS in Hospital) [2026] EWHC 653 (Fam) (20 March 2026): Judgment authorising deprivation of liberty of 13-year-old with mental health difficulties, who had been detained in a windowless room in a hospital accident and emergency ward. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Does open justice apply in the Court of Protection?
Public hearing in Court of Appeal on 25th March 2026
It's an appeal against Poole J's judgment on disclosure of position statements
Background info blog here (with links to earlier blogs)
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Every Judge, Magistrate and Tribunal Member should be thinking about the ways in which s/he can promote transparency and open justice when sitting. That can be as simple as ensuring that those people who are watching the proceedings can actually hear them, that they have the skeleton arguments to which reference is being made, and can find out the result of the case.” Mr Justice Nicklin, Chair of the Judiciary’s Transparency and Open Justice Board Speech 9th May 2024
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The Court of Appeal is to decide whether Nicklin J is right on this point.
Should judges in the Court of Protection l be ensuring that we have the skeleton arguments (aka position statements)?
We await the judgment in Re Gardner (Deceased) CA-2025-001953
Every Judge, Magistrate and Tribunal Member should be thinking about the ways in which s/he can promote transparency and open justice when sitting. That can be as simple as ensuring that those people who are watching the proceedings can actually hear them, that they have the skeleton arguments to which reference is being made, and can find out the result of the case.” Mr Justice Nicklin, Chair of the Judiciary’s Transparency and Open Justice Board Speech 9th May 2024
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The Court of Appeal is to decide whether Nicklin J is right on this point.
Should judges in the Court of Protection l be ensuring that we have the skeleton arguments (aka position statements)?
We await the judgment in Re Gardner (Deceased) CA-2025-001953
Looking forward to watching this Court of Appeal hearing today before Lord Justices Peter Jackson, Coulson, and Cobb.
With @kitzingercelia.bsky.social as an intervenor
A tragic situation for the family …& now a crucial hearing for #OpenJustice.
*Upcoming Court of Appeal - Weds 25th March 2026**
Does open justice apply in the Court of Protection?
That's what the Court of Appeal will be considering.
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/03/22/c...
Does open justice apply in the Court of Protection?
Public hearing in Court of Appeal on 25th March 2026
It's an appeal against Poole J's judgment on disclosure of position statements
Background info blog here (with links to earlier blogs)
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/09/23/l...
ITV investigates contact restrictions in care homes - and targets 'transparency orders' for preventing families from speaking publicly in their own names about what's happening.
www.itv.com/news/2026-03...
Congratulations to @clarkdaniel.bsky.social, core team Project member, for successfully defending his PhD thesis yesterday. Well done Dr Clark!
Is there space for clinical decision-making in relation to incapacitated adults? The CA pronounces
The Court of Appeal in Townsend v Epsom & Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust EWCA Civ 195 has handed down a decision with very significant implications for all medical decision-making in relation…
Friday 27 February 2026
Featured hearings - three interesting hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice.
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Featured hearings on Tuesday 24th February 2026
Two cases before Tier 3 judges - one at the RCJ and one in Manchester. Both remote.
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Permission to appeal refused for Luba Macpherson and it looks like the end of the road for her in the English Courts
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“The Court of Protection can only act on the evidence provided,”the nurse said.“But who are they going to believe — a desperate,emotional &angry parent who can’t afford an expensive barrister, or several health & social managers with extremely expensive legal support?”
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Judgment highlights realities of navigating health & welfare decisions “of a kind that rarely makes it to court…failure by hospital to consult with an LPA - a professional who moved “heaven & earth to correct the situation.”
Indeed, a rapid & effective challenge - awful that court action needed!
New blog post
Daughter of P (@AmandaAPHill.bsky.social) wins right to refer to Court of Protection proceedings naming her mother without having to make a further application after her mother's death.
It shouldn't have been so hard!
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Featured hearings on Thursday 19 February 2026.
Two hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice
#NotSecretCourt
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Featured hearings for Tuesday 17 February 2026
Royal Courts of Justice - both accessible by remote link.
Both concern serious medical treatment.https://openjusticecourtofprotection.org/
Featured hearing on Monday 16th February 2026.
The case concerning Tony Hickmott, before Senior Judge Hilder at First Avenue House in London, 10.30am.
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Judgment now published: www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
🚨Eating & drinking in last days of life
An emotive subject, important to explore & the focus of latest episode.
🎧https://speakforme.co.uk/podcast-episode-151
@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social
#OrdinaryDying
#AdvanceCarePlanning
#PEoLC
#EoLC
Judgment now published: www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
Judgment out shortly!
