The new Practice Directions supplementing the Court of Protection Rules 2017 have been published. They can be found here. These include the following Practice Directions:
- 1A: Participation of P
- 2A: Levels of Judiciary
- 2B: Authorised Court Officers
- 2C: Application of Civil Procedure Rules 1998 and the Family Procedure Rules 2010
- 3A: Court’s jurisdiction to be exercised by certain judges
- 3B: Case pathways
- 4A: Hearings (including reporting restrictions)
- 4B: Court bundles
- 4C: Transparency
- 5A: Court documents
- 5B: Statements of Truth
- 6A: Service of Documents
- 6B: Service Out of the Jurisdiction
- 7A: Notifying P
- 8A: Permission
- 9A: The Application Form
- 9B: Notification of other persons that an application form has been issued
- 9C: Responding to an application
- 9D: Applications by Currently Appointed Deputies, Attorneys and Donees in Relation to P’s Property and Affairs
- 9E: Applications Relating to Statutory Wills, Codicils, Settlements and Other Dealings With P’s Property
- 9F: Applications to Appoint or Discharge a Trustee
- 9G: Applications Relating to the Registration of Enduring Powers of Attorney
- 10A: Applications within proceedings
- 10B: Urgent and Interim Applications
- 11A: Deprivation of Liberty Applications
- 12A: Human Rights Act 1998
- 13A: Procedure for disputing the court’s jurisdiction
- 14A: Written Evidence
- 14B: Depositions
- 14C: Fees for examiners of the Court
- 14D: Witness summons
- 14E: Section 49 Reports
- 15A: Expert evidence
- 17A: Litigation Friend
- 17B: Rule 1.2 Representatives
- 18A: Change of Solicitor – effective from 1 December 2017
- 19A: Costs
- 19B: Fixed costs in the Court of Protection
- 20A: Appeals
- 20B: Allocation of Appeals
- 21A: Contempt of Court
- 22A: Civil Restraint Orders
- 23A: International Protection of Adults
- 24A: Request for directions where notice of objection prevents the Public Guardian from registering an Enduring Power of Attorney
- 24B: Where P ceases to lack capacity or dies
- 24C: Transitional provisions
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