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Supporting a teenager through local authority care proceedings
Gemma Hodder supported a teenage girl over two years while the local authority pursued care proceedings for our client and a younger child. The young person had been living with her older sister, since her mother had died and her ...
Read more04.07.2022
A move to supported living in Sussex (even during Covid-19)
In April 2020, as the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic had much of the country in lockdown, Kaileigh Hazeldine helped a man relocate to less restrictive accommodation in Sussex. The man was 69 years old, with a diagnosis of bipolar ...
Read more09.02.2022
Brothers kept together with support under Care Order
Case report: Confidential children’s care proceedings. Lorraine Green represented two brothers in relation to care proceedings brought by the local authority, following concerns about their parent’s capacity to protect them in light of drug and alcohol misuse, domestic abuse and ...
Read more14.09.2021
Multi-agency cooperation and complex care needs agreed
Case report: [2021] EWCOP 21. As more agencies get involved in a vulnerable person’s care and living arrangements, it can be harder to navigate the fine line between them to reach a solution. Rachel Turner, who is joint head of our mental health ...
Read more12.08.2021
Do care proceedings allow enough time for parents with a disability to develop parenting skills?
Case report: Confidential. Kate Hammond recently represented children in care proceedings after the local authority raised concerns about their parents, both of whom have learning disabilities. This case has potentially important implications for the way parents with learning disabilities are ...
Read more01.07.2021
Court of Protection confirms right to refuse proposed inpatient treatment
Case report: A Mental Health Trust v ER & Anor [2021] EWCOP 32 (30 April 2021). Mrs Justice Lieven confirmed that it was not in the best interests of our client to ‘be forced to accept treatment … she does ...
Read more10.05.2021
Community care and moving on after mental health problems
Feeling good in your own home is an important element of anyone’s wellbeing, and this is particularly important when recovering from a mental health condition. Andrew Bowmer and Jasper Blumenthal from our community care team recently helped a lady to obtain suitable ...
Read more25.07.2019
Sex and mental capacity – choice must be freely exercised by both parties
Case ref: [2014] EWCOP 53 When a mother with learning difficulties and her four children were taken into the care of the State, the case came before the Court of Protection to decide issues of residence, care and contact with ...
Read more20.12.2014