Before the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 ended recoverable additional liabilities in most personal injury claims, it was commonplace for Claimant Solicitors to…
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…
In a recent case, A County Council v LW & Anor [2020], an application was brought by a Local Authority in relation to the Protected Party’s capacity. The Protected Party…
The short answer is no. The above case concerned an elderly woman (OT, the Protected Party) in Leeds who lacks capacity to deal with her property and financial affairs. KKL…
This blog forms part of a series of weekly interviews with several professionals during lockdown. It aims to inform Deputies and their teams about how each organisation within the field…
The Case of Trudy Samler 2001 considers the level of costs incurred regarding contact and whether this is reasonable. The case looks into whether these costs are instigated by the…
The Protected Party came to live in the UK in 1985 and married her husband in 1992. The marriage was contracted abroad. When the Protected Party first came to live…
In the case of CB v Medway Council & Anor (Appeal) [2019] EWCOP, the Official Solicitor appealed against a decision which justified the Protected Party’s Deprivation of Liberty. The Protected…
