The Process of a Request for Reassessment
Unlike any other area of law, there is a process regarding Court of Protection assessments that is not in any written case or law, however a spoken arrangement passed down…
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Does P have litigation capacity?
The issue of whether P had litigation capacity was considered in the recent case of P, Re [2021] EWCOP 27. P, a 60 year old woman, has diabetes, paranoid schizophrenia…
Client care and the indemnity principle in Court of Protection
Stephanie Kaye, senior associate and Laura Gillin, associate at Clarion discuss the issues arising in respect of the indemnity principle following the decision of PLK & Others, client care requirements…
Increase to Court Fees
The Government issued a public consultation on 22 March 2021. The Ministry of Justice is consulting on increasing some court fees in line with historical inflation dating from August 2016…
The Deputyship Standards
The Deputyship standards have been developed with both professional and public bodies and form an important view of the new approach to support and supervise professional and public authority Deputies.…
Giving gifts as Deputy
The Office of the Public Guardian has issued new information regarding gift making as a Deputy. It can be found here : https://publicguardian.blog.gov.uk/2020/12/16/giving-gifts-as-an-attorney-or-deputy/ As Deputy it can be tricky deciding…
Can the police gain access to the psychological report undertaken on the protected party?
In the case of AB (Court of Protection: Police Disclosure) [2019] EWCOP 66, an application was put forward by the police force in order to gain access to a psychological…
Is it possible to claim payments at Grade C?
In the case of Kirby & Others (2013) it was decided that arranging payments should be reduced and limited to 3 minutes at a Grade D rate. This is because…