Blog post with Ruby Reed-Berendt based on our paper on capacity and sexual relations. Some cautionary notes about the reasoning in JB and how it is playing out in subsequent cases

Congratulations to Clare Fuller RGN MSc - finalist for The Lifetime Achievement Award in this year's Excellence in Palliative Care Awards.
Lovely to see your hard work & dedication recognised in this way

Becky’s deterioration in state care, and the harm it has caused her, is symptomatic of a crisis that has become a national scandal. To read the full story, please click on the link shorturl.at/ekrwz

Mr Justice Nicklin, chair of the judiciary's new Transparency and Open Justice Board, welcomes
'the hugely valuable contribution' of court bloggers

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Peter is autistic + LD. He's been detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act for years - almost all his adult life.

That's all we can tell you because this case didn't appear on public lists + we were refused a remote link.

openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/05/12/ope… via Open Justice Court of Protection Project

My appeal against Stonewall will be heard at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in London this week, 14 -15 May 2024.

Four and a half years ago, I was a barrister at Garden Court Chambers. It was 2019 and I had decided that I could not ignore what was happening to women and to…

'This hearing before HHJ Burrows was an exceptionally comprehensive failure of open justice'

The hearing wasn’t publicly listed – then the judge denied us remote access, and never sent the approved order.

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Four more Wainwright summits this week: the mighty Binsey, Sale, Walla and Beda. Slowly. my knee rehab is going okay I think!

Glorious day on Beda Fell today.

Boredale Hause from Beda fell ridge today #LakeDistrict

'Very few families are prepared for the way the state intervenes when a relative is deemed to have “lost capacity”.  I often hear people’s shock and disbelief that the state can “take over” decision-making ...'
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2023/06/09/str… via Open Justice Court of Protection Project

Struggling with transparency and a family under stress openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2023/06/09/str… via Open Justice Court of Protection Project

10am on Monday 13th May 2024 - hearing account capacity and best interests relating to care, residence and contact.

Hospital is an option for L, the protected party. Nobody seems to think it is the right place for him. His mum wanted to contact her member of Senedd but is prevented from talking about her role in this case due to the Transparency ( gagging) Order. Open Justice Court of Protection Project A blog 👇

It's astonishing that palliative care is still not commissioned on a population level, with dedicated services for children.
This challenging blog by Sacha Langton-Gilks should shame us into action.

Hearing in Bristol - 2pm Friday 10th May 2024.
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