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! openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/12/h...

Featured hearings on Thursday 19 February 2026. Two hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice #NotSecretCourt openjusticecourtofprotection.org

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. openjusticecourtofprotection.org

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...

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! openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/12/h...

New blog post The (sad) latest development in this ongoing case.... By @doccmartin.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/06/p...

New blog post The (sad) latest development in this ongoing case.... By @doccmartin.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/06/p...

New blog post How do appeals work in the Court of Protection - why do they fail, and how are they different from reconsiderations, or hearings after a material change in circumstance. By Robert Sharp openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/04/a...

Question for all Health & Welfare Attorneys (LPAs) and Deputies Do hospitals recognise your role? Do doctors inform & consult you - and recognise your role as "decision-maker". A BAD experience described in the blog - but there must be good ones. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/01/c...

New blog post by @kitzingercelia.bsky.social Successful application to disapply Section 12(1) of the Administration of Justice Act: Making Polly’s statutory will application public openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/18/s...

It would be wise of judges to be aware of the effect their well-meaning (public) criticism of observers' actions has on transparency. New blog by. @clarkdaniel.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/23/u...

Question for all Health & Welfare Attorneys (LPAs) and Deputies Do hospitals recognise your role? Do doctors inform & consult you - and recognise your role as "decision-maker". A BAD experience described in the blog - but there must be good ones. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/01/c...

New blog alert Hospital makes serious medical treatment decisions for P without consulting his Health & Welfare Attorney. Happens all the time - but Attorney in this case (a solicitor) & she got it before the VP. By @jennykitzinger.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/01/c...

New blog alert Hospital makes serious medical treatment decisions for P without consulting his Health & Welfare Attorney. Happens all the time - but Attorney in this case (a solicitor) & she got it before the VP. By @jennykitzinger.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/01/c...

Featured hearings for 30 January 2026 Two hearings at the RCJ before Mr Justice Hayden. Both cases previously concerned capacity for sex and marriage. openjusticecourtofprotection.org

Hearing you can observe via cloud video platform from Sheffield on Wednesday 28th January 2026 It's a challenge to a deprivation of liberty.

New blog post - an 'explainer' by @familoo.pinktape.co.uk openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/21/w...

It would be wise of judges to be aware of the effect their well-meaning (public) criticism of observers' actions has on transparency. New blog by. @clarkdaniel.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/23/u...

New blog post - an 'explainer' by @familoo.pinktape.co.uk openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/21/w...

Featured hearing on Wednesday 21 January 2026. A (hybrid: in person and remote) permission to appeal hearing in Newcastle in a case we have blogged about many times. See the most recent blog in Featured Hearings on our website. openjusticecourtofprotection.org

New Blog Post: Imam Sentenced for Underage Religious Marriage The new offence of carrying out conduct for the purpose of causing someone under the age of 18 to enter into a marriage applies to unregistered religious marriages. sandbergrlaw.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/i...

New blog post by @kitzingercelia.bsky.social Successful application to disapply Section 12(1) of the Administration of Justice Act: Making Polly’s statutory will application public openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/18/s...

💡New Insight 💡 Dr Jill Harbord of University of Sussex explores the marginalisation of people facing homelessness in our magistrates' courts. Read it now ⬇️ @sheltercharity.bsky.social | @crisis-uk.bsky.social | @stmungos.bsky.social www.transformjustice.org.uk/news-insight...

New blog post Another prison sentence from the Court of Protection openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/14/s...

New blog post Another prison sentence from the Court of Protection openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/14/s...

Back in court 14th January 2026) at 2pm. It follows Mr Justice McKendrick's judgment in December that it is in P's best interests to move to supported living. See our homepage (openjusticecourtofprotection.org) for details on how to observe: openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/30/r...

There's a private hearing today in Pontypridd County Court. Someone is being deprived of their liberty - on the application (I think) of Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. Following recent experiences in Wales, I'm concerned about private hearings there + will ask to observe.

New blog post by @jennykitzinger.bsky.social Judge acts as mediator between two sisters in dispute about their mother's care... openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/11/s...

None of these 90+ year old protected parties was in court. I doubt most of them even knew about the court case. I *really* don't want to be in this situation when I'm in my 80s or 90s but can't see how to avoid it.....

New blog post - five people in their 90s at the centre of COP hearings in December.... and @kitzingercelia.bsky.social ponders whether she can plan ahead to avoid being a P in her old age (and decides probably not). openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/04/l...

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