Due to come into force 1st January 2023. The rules make changes to contempt proceedings and electronic service. The full explanatory note is set out below:

"EXPLANATORY NOTE
These Rules amend the Court of Protection Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/1035) to substitute for Part 21 of those Rules a new Part 21, for the purpose of making provision for a consistent approach in relation to contempt proceedings having regard to the relevant provisions of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998/3132 – see Part 81 as substituted by S.I. 2020/747) and the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/2955 – see Part 37 as substituted by S.I. 2020/758).

These Rules also make minor amendments in rules 6.3 and 9.1 of the Court of Protection Rules 2017, principally to clarify the rules for electronic service and to make reference to a new practice direction supplementing the Rules."

The LPS implementation team have sent out their latest email update on progress with the consultation. They say they have received over 650 responses and are currently collating and analysing  responses. Once this has been done a further update is expected later this year.  

The newsletter also highlights the 2021-22 data for the DoLS released by NHS Digital. There were an estimated 270,650 applications for DoLS received during 2021-22 an increase of 5.5% compared to the previous year. The full data set can be found on the NHS Digital site. 

Andrew Gordon-Saker, the Senior Costs Judge, has released a note on the pilot that starts 1 November 2022. ​

The LPS Policy team have sent the letter below extending the deadline by a week. 

The long-awaited public consultation on proposed changes to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Code of Practice for England and Wales, which includes guidance on the new LPS system, has been published. It is a joint consultation published by DHSC and MoJ and runs for 16 weeks from the 17 March until 7 July 2022.
The consultation documents identifies 25 questions that the team would like to have views on and responses can be made online.   
​Alongside the consultation, six sets of draft regulations, which will underpin LPS, have also been published. While these do not require consultation views are sought on the policy detail. The documents are:

• impact assessment 
• LPS workforce and training strategy 
• LPS training framework 
• LPS National Minimum Data Set
• equalities impact assessment

A separate consultation has been launched by the Welsh government on specific aspects of LPS and how they will be implemented in the Principality. That consultation too runs until 7th July 2022.