The Coordinator of The Friendly Trust, a not-for-profit organisation, was seeking a general bulk order that the Friendly Trust should be permitted to charge fixed costs up to the amount allowed to solicitors in the relevant practice direction, so that the trust could continue to provide a Deputyship service on viable terms. Furthermore, the Applicant requested that this permission to charge was retrospective in relation to all existing Deputy orders as well as applying to future orders. 

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Follow up of A (A Patient), Re (No 1) [2016] EWCOP 38 where the President authorises publication of the previous judgment.

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Substantial costs order made against the P's nephew who:

"...has been unrelentingly pertinacious in pursuit of what he believes to be his aunt's best interests [and where] his pursuit of that laudable endeavour has become obsessive and his desire to litigate (most of the time as a litigant in person) and to correspond with all and sundry has become compulsive. This obsessive compulsion is marked by the very large number of applications which [the nephew] has sought to make to the Court of Protection (at least 23) and by the enormous number of emails with which he has bombarded all and sundry since 2013."

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The appointment of a deputy for property and affairs, which was a firm of solicitors, was revoked on the basis that they were not acting in the P's best interests.

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We are delighted to say that our long awaited book, Court of Protection Made Clear: A User's Guide, has been published.

It is written by the Editors of this site, Claire Wills-Goldingham QC & Marie Leslie, with the help of Consulting Editor, Mr Justice Keehan. A chapter on Mental Illness & Loss of Capacity has been provided by Dr Paul Divall.

The book is fully up to date with both the Case Management Pilot in operation from 1 September and the Transparency Pilot that has recently been extended for another year. 

You can read more about the book here.