Trouble with transparency in the Court of Protection (again) New blog by @clarkdaniel.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/21/a...

Lawyer v AI [2025] PT (Fam) – Some thoughts for litigants in person on the risks of using AI in your Family Court case pinktape.co.uk/rants/lawyer...

This shocking case has generated lots of comments (scroll down to the bottom of the blog post. Thank you to everyone who has sent kind messages to Zoe. No family should be put through this kind of trauma.

Trouble with transparency in the Court of Protection (again) New blog by @clarkdaniel.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/21/a...

This is a long read but an important one for anyone interested in how the Court of Protection, or indeed any public service, interacts with families. It is a shocking and very frightening case and I'm hugely grateful to Zoe and to Celia for sharing it.

Lord Sumption in his own words is almost always more impressive than other people’s gloss of his arguments and thinking would suggest. “Perhaps the second worst sin that a judge in the final court of appeal can commit is accidentally to decide half a dozen other cases that aren’t before him.“

New blog post Systems-generated trauma and closed proceedings: Hywel Dda University Health Board v P & Anor [2024] EWCOP 70 (T3) openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/14/s...

Two featured hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday 16th December 2025 openjusticecourtofprotection.org

New blog post Systems-generated trauma and closed proceedings: Hywel Dda University Health Board v P & Anor [2024] EWCOP 70 (T3) openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/14/s...

New blog post openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/30/r...

Specialist practitioners + judges sometimes lose the habit of looking over the garden wall at what’s happening next door so you get little islands of law governed by completely different principles to the whole of the rest of the law. (Sumption) openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/10/j...

New blog post by @jennykitzinger.bsky.social The emotional complexities and administrative challenges of making a statutory will for our brain-injured sister, Polly Kitzinger. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/09/a...

New blog post: Lord Sumption talks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social about the work of the Supreme Court (with some discussion of the AGNI case of course) openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/10/j...

New blog post by @jennykitzinger.bsky.social The emotional complexities and administrative challenges of making a statutory will for our brain-injured sister, Polly Kitzinger. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/09/a...

Tuesday 9th December 2025 Featured hearing at the RCJ before Mrs Justice Arbuthnot. It is a part-heard urgent hearing about where P will live. openjusticecourtofprotection.org

Featured hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday 8 December 2025 before Keehan J. A long-running case we have blogged about before: openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/11/24/i... openjusticecourtofprotection.org

New blog post openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/30/r...

Featured hearings on Tuesday 2nd December 2025 openjusticecourtofprotection.org

Featured hearing before Mrs Justice Theis sitting in Cardiff Civil Justice Centre. Thursday 27 November 2025. openjusticecourtofprotection.org

New blog post by @clarkdaniel.bsky.social What does "going home" mean to someone with dementia? openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/25/t...

Featured hearings on Wednesday 26th November 2025. Including a serious medical treatment case at the RCJ, and a care, support and contact hearing in Canterbury. openjusticecourtofprotection.org

New blog post After observing the case in the Supreme Court reconsidering Cheshire West, seven different court observers reflect on how THEY would want law and practice changed in relation to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/21/i...

New blog post Nowhere suitable for P to live after he's removed from his home by court order. He's paying for his own hotel accommodation! openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/23/h...

New blog post... What happened AFTER the final judgment was published in LV [2025] EWCOP 9? By @sydneywhite.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/18/f...

New blog post After observing the case in the Supreme Court reconsidering Cheshire West, seven different court observers reflect on how THEY would want law and practice changed in relation to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/21/i...

This week’s Supreme Court decision means that we need to rethink religious education and worship in schools in all nations of the UK. The main takeaway of the judgment is that it underlines how parental opt outs will not excuse indoctrination: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/11/20/r...

The Court of Protection is not included in this excellent scheme, unfortunately. www.jaffalaw.com/update/acces...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Belfast-based non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education and mandatory Christian collective worship in Northern Ireland are discriminatory under human rights law.

New blog post Former High Court judge, Sir Nicholas Mostyn, on the Supreme Court case reconsidering Cheshire West openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/19/t...

New blog post... What happened AFTER the final judgment was published in LV [2025] EWCOP 9? By @sydneywhite.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/18/f...

We're hiring at Newcastle Law. I've never worked elsewhere nor have I wanted to - about as good a sales pitch as you're going to get! If you're an EU nerd who doesn't run screaming from Brexit, we have a lectureship (T&R) and research community just for you - join us! Other posts follow.

The Local Authority want P to vacate the property voluntarily whilst his property is cleared. Failing that, they want P removed forcibly, using restraint if necessary. Blog by @doccmartin.bsky.social #NotSecretCourt openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/16/h...

Lawyer v AI [2025] PT (Fam) – Some thoughts for litigants in person on the risks of using AI in your Family Court case pinktape.co.uk/rants/lawyer...

Open justice is supposed to enhance public trust + confidence in the justice system - but in this case it had the opposite effect. What does the Supreme Court need to do differently to make sure COP observers have a better experience next time? openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/10/w...

New blog post Peter Mant KC and Nicola Kohn reflect on the recent Supreme Court case reconsidering Cheshire West What made this case particularly difficult was the absence of a factual matrix - no real protected parties at the centre of the case. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/14/a...

New blog post Peter Mant KC and Nicola Kohn reflect on the recent Supreme Court case reconsidering Cheshire West What made this case particularly difficult was the absence of a factual matrix - no real protected parties at the centre of the case. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/14/a...

Two featured hearings on Friday 14 November 2025 openjusticecourtofprotection.org

Read full coverage here: www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art...

there were 150 observers exchanging views apparently

Public observers disillusioned and dismayed by what they see in the Supreme Court. Not what judges hope for from open justice! openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/10/w...

Open justice is supposed to enhance public trust + confidence in the justice system - but in this case it had the opposite effect. What does the Supreme Court need to do differently to make sure COP observers have a better experience next time? openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/10/w...

Featured hearings for Tuesday 11th November 2025 openjusticecourtofprotection.org

Featured Hearing for today - Monday 10th November 2025 openjusticecourtofprotection.org

New blog post Pre-hearing draft orders: Procedure, not pressure By David York openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/07/p...

** New blog post - 90-year-old woman and her advance decision to refuse treatment openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/05/p...

New blog post Pre-hearing draft orders: Procedure, not pressure By David York openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/07/p...

Featured hearing on our homepage for Monday 10th November 2025. A remote hearing at the RCJ before McKendrick J, KC, a very interesting judge to observe. The case concerns capacity for sex and marriage. openjusticecourtofprotection.org

Featured hearing on Friday 7th November 2025 before DJ Geddes in Leeds - a Final Hearing via MS Teams concerning care, contact, residence and deprivation of liberty. openjusticecourtofprotection.org

This is what I'll be doing later today. Why not join us? It's not too late! Send an email to [email protected] and we'll send you the link. All welcome.