COVID-19: Court of Protection issues guidance on visiting P and hearings

March 19th, 2020 by Jonathan Auburn

The Court of Protection has issued two important pieces of guidance in the last two days.

On Tuesday 17 March 2020 Mr Justice Hayden Read more »

 

Re KT: securing P’s representation in capacity / DOL cases, revisited

January 29th, 2018 by Jonathan Auburn

In Re KT (Incapacitated Persons) (Deprivation of Liberty: Appointment of Representatives) [2018] EWCOP 1, in one of his last judgments before retiring, Charles J considered again the question of the procedure to be adopted in so-called ‘non-contentious’ applications for welfare orders to authorise a deprivation of liberty. Read more »