New blog post from the Open Justice Court of Protection Project. #openjustice@clarkdaniel.bsky.socialopenjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/09/29/c...
By Daniel Clark, 29 September 2024 This case began as an urgent application to the Court of Protection in August 2023. It wasnât until May 2024 that it came before a judge. In August 2023, XYâŚ
A lovely walk up Wansfell yesterday for the 54th Wainwright of our post-knee-surgery round. No problem with knees en route (though we were rather slow on the descent). Yay!
Interested in observing Court of Protection hearings? We're running a free & friendly webinar for anyone who'd like to know how to watch a remote hearing and would like some support with observing (and maybe blogging). Send us an email if you'd like the link - 5pm-6pm on Thursday 26th September
Interested in observing Court of Protection hearings? We're running a free & friendly webinar for anyone who'd like to know how to watch a remote hearing and would like some support with observing (and maybe blogging). Send us an email if you'd like the link - 5pm-6pm on Thursday 26th September
đŚ đ´ó §ó ˘ó Ľó Žó §ó ż Six water companies overcharged customers between ÂŁ800m and ÂŁ1.5bn by âsignificantly or systematicallyâ underreporting the true scale of their sewage pollution of rivers and waterways, a tribunal has heard. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Firms underreported true scale of sewage pollution for 10 years, which allowed them to set higher bills, tribunal told
Hello lawyers - I'm puzzled by having been sent a court order (threatening me with being sent to prison or fined if I breach it), which nowhere tells me who made the order. It's been sealed (see image). My question: Shouldn't there be a judge's name on it somewhere telling me who made it?
Thereâs an emerging consensus from people who know media law that this judge over-reached his authority in telling me what I âshouldâ say (as well as what I must not say) as a condition of permission to publish about a private hearing. #openjustice
But surely the judge should have used the COP rules - not the Civil Procedure Rules?
Blog describing case where whether it was appropriate to make transparency order was only considered when observer turned up, raising questions of when to oppose the making of a transparency order & whether such orders should cover only one hearing at a time, at least in the early stages of a case.
Members of the public don't have an unqualified right to attend hearings in the Court of Protection. In this case, the protected party didn't want observers. But I do wonder why this conversation wasn't had beforehand openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/09/03/b...
By Eleanor Tallon, 3rd September 2024 I was not able to observe this hearing because the protected party, N, said she did not want an observer as âshe doesn't know who they are or what their ethics an...