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Z, Re [2019] EWCOP 55

2/1/2020

 
An application by JK, the son of Z, for access to various court documents and expert reports relating to declarations made in November 2018. JK was not a party to those proceedings (even though he could have been) and Morgan J had found that ​Z lacked capacity to manage his property and financial affairs. Application refused.

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Office of the Public Guardian v Stalter [2018] EWCOP 27

4/4/2019

 
​Application by the Public Guardian to commit the individual to prison after he disclosed information in breach of a transparency order. No order for committal was made.

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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust v AB & Ors [2019] EWCOP 10

25/3/2019

 
Application to prevent publication of a video of a patient, P, in her treating hospital. The application was granted.

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M v Press Association [2016] EWCOP 34

4/8/2016

 
​Hayden J heard the application for the continuation of a reporting restriction order (RRO) when M died following the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment by means of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration. The application was refused, the judge saying that "the balance here weighs more heavily in favour of freedom of expression".

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University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v G [2016] EWCOP 28

7/7/2016

 
​​Application by the Health Trust, supported by the family of a woman in a permanent vegetative state, for a reporting restriction order (RRO). The application was to extend the RRO indefinitely. Mr Justice Jackson refused the application.

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Re M [2015] EWCOP 69

17/3/2016

 
This case concerned long-running proceedings relating to a young man aged 26, M, and had been ongoing for two years. His parents E and A, whilst the court found they greatly loved their son, had, in an earlier judgment of Baker J, (Re M [2014] EWCOP 33] found that whilst M had ASD and a learning disability, his parents had fabricated his reaction to an MMR vaccination. They had claimed it had caused autism in M and had given many fabricated accounts as to his health, caused M to be subjected to unnecessary tests and interventions, failed in relation to dental treatment to obtain treatment and E as M’s deputy had controlled all aspects of his life and restricted access to him by number of professionals. The court found that these behaviours amounted to factitious disorder imposed on others and additionally E had a combination of personality disorders – narcissistic, histrionic and emotionally unstable.
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The key issues in this judgment focused upon the identity of the deputy, deprivation of liberty, disclosure and publication of information relating to proceedings and some miscellaneous issues​.

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