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SCC v FP & Ors [2022] EWCOP 30

16/12/2022

 
Judgment concerning whether it is in the best interests of a vulnerable 36 year old woman, FP to be deprived of direct contact with her mother. FP lacks capacity to make decisions about residence, care, and contact with others.

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MB v PB [2022] EWCOP 14

29/3/2022

 
Judgment concerning PB who has suffered a severe brain haemorrhage, lacks capacity and is in a care home and what level of contact she should have with her husband.

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BU, Re [2021] EWCOP 54

2/10/2021

 
Application by a daughter (WU), as representative for other family members, seeking orders that their mother (BU) lacks capacity to make decisions about her contact, restricting contact with another man and for a forced marriage protection order to be put in place.

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EOA, Re [2021] EWCOP 20

22/3/2021

 
The court made declarations that the P ​lacks capacity to make decisions regarding foreign travel, contact with his family and others and social media and internet usage.

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NG (By His Litigation Friend, the Official Solicitor) v Hertfordshire County Council & Ors [2021] EWCOP 2

13/1/2021

 
​​Appeal by the OS against a ruling which supported the health and welfare deputy's decision that the P's parents did not have a reasonable excuse to leave their homes to provide care to the P, pursuant to regulation 6(2)(d) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. Appeal allowed.

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A County Council v LW & Anor [2020] EWCOP 50

16/10/2020

 
Application in relation to the P's capacity to decide where she should live and whether she should continue to have contact with her abusive partner.

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A Local Authority v AB & Anor [2020] EWCOP 32

8/7/2020

 
There was a dispute as to whether the conclusions of a second independent expert psychiatrist  should be accepted, and final declarations made in accordance with those conclusions.

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D (A young man), Re [2020] EWCOP 1

21/1/2020

 
Application by a mother, who is subject to a civil restraint order, for permission to make a substantive application concerning contact with D, her 20 year-old son who is severely impaired by autism and who is cared for by his father and stepmother. Application refused.

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B (Capacity: Social Media: Care and Contact) [2019] EWCOP 3

22/2/2019

 
​The court was required to make a range of capacity decisions in relation to the P's capacity to litigate in the proceedings, to manage her property and affairs, to decide where she resides, to decide on her package of care, to decide with who she has contact, to use the internet and communicate by social media and to consent to sexual relations.

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A (Capacity: Social Media and Internet Use: Best Interests) [2019] EWCOP 2

22/2/2019

 
​The court was required to make final capacity declarations on the P's residence, contact (with family and others), his care arrangements, his property and financial affairs, his capacity to consent to sexual relations, and his internet and social media use. This judgment in particular focused on the P's access to social media and the risks that posed to him and to others.

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