Fit to discharge or fit to section?

The family members are adamant that the new care providers are “the worst agency they’ve been involved with” and report receiving somewhere between 50 and 100 distress calls each day from P in whic…

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What happens to restricted patients after AGNI? SJ Hilder considers the consequences

At first sight, this appeared to be a straightforward example of the post-AGNI legal framework in practice. The applicant local authority invited the court to discharge the COPDOL order. But there …

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What happens to restricted patients after AGNI? SJ Hilder considers the consequences

At first sight, this appeared to be a straightforward example of the post-AGNI legal framework in practice. The applicant local authority invited the court to discharge the COPDOL order. But there …

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The irony and the AGNI: After years of traumatic DOLS experiences, P now no longer meets the criteria

We have asked ourselves umpteen times over the years what DoLS have ever done for Joe’s mother. Hopefully now, post-AGNI, we can be left to care and advocate for Joe’s mother as we have always soug…

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The irony and the AGNI: After years of traumatic DOLS experiences, P now no longer meets the criteria

We have asked ourselves umpteen times over the years what DoLS have ever done for Joe’s mother. Hopefully now, post-AGNI, we can be left to care and advocate for Joe’s mother as we have always soug…

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“What your mother wants and what is best for P may not be the same thing”: Judge seeks family engagement and clarification of immigration status

I hope that the practical plan put in place by DJ Clarke will enable the family and professionals to collaborate effectively and ensure that the Official Solicitor can obtain P’s wishes and feeling…

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Polly and AGNI: A family reflection on deprivation of liberty

Polly has lived her life in the context of both the ‘ordinary usage’ of ‘liberty’ with its powerful social and political symbolism, and also the more peculiar legal definitions created by judicial …

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Overturning Cheshire West and my Grandma’s experience of ‘the death house’ care home

Born in 1930, my Grandma was funny, cheeky, loving and firmly opinionated. She had been diagnosed with end-stage heart failure and vascular dementia, with fluctuating capacity and had been living h…

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Polly and AGNI: A family reflection on deprivation of liberty

Polly has lived her life in the context of both the ‘ordinary usage’ of ‘liberty’ with its powerful social and political symbolism, and also the more peculiar legal definitions created by judicial …

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From Cheshire West to AGNI: Rebalancing Protection, Autonomy and Human Rights

One positive consequence of the AGNI judgment may be that it encourages professionals to refocus on their own responsibilities under the Mental Capacity Act. By reducing the number of cases that re…

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Making trials run on time

Judges must minimise the ‘human impact’ of delay

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Considering ‘deprivation of liberty’ in a family home setting after AGNI

HHJ Burrows determined that there is no deprivation of liberty for a young woman living under constant supervision and control in an annex to the family home. It was clear from his comments in cour…

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Considering ‘deprivation of liberty’ in a family home setting after AGNI

HHJ Burrows determined that there is no deprivation of liberty for a young woman living under constant supervision and control in an annex to the family home. It was clear from his comments in cour…

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Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection

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Judge authorises medical treatment and DOLS in hospital

In the end, despite having watched the hearing and heard the oral judgment, I don’t know why this judge made the decision she did about deprivation of liberty in this case – which pretty much defea…

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AGNI: A common-sense judgment or agony?

For people who consider their loved ones well cared for, safe, and happy, the pre‑AGNI deprivation of liberty (DoL) processes were nonsensical and often intrusive. For that reason, the current judg…

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Overturning Cheshire West and my Grandma’s experience of ‘the death house’ care home

Born in 1930, my Grandma was funny, cheeky, loving and firmly opinionated. She had been diagnosed with end-stage heart failure and vascular dementia, with fluctuating capacity and had been living h…

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Declaration of death or serious medical treatment withdrawal?

The key question in this case, which will be back in court on 2nd July 2026, is whether or not a man in his 40s, who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest about a month ago) is now “brain stem dead…

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Overturning Cheshire West and my Grandma’s experience of ‘the death house’ care home

Born in 1930, my Grandma was funny, cheeky, loving and firmly opinionated. She had been diagnosed with end-stage heart failure and vascular dementia, with fluctuating capacity and had been living h…

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“Steadying the ship”: Vice President’s judgment will list factors to consider before making applications for declaratory relief in life-sustaining treatment cases under the Mental Health Act

By Sydney White, 24th June 2026 The grave facts of this case (COP 20033278, before Mrs Justice Theis on 23rd June 2026) are discussed in a previous blog (Anorexia, declaratory protection and the Me…

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Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection

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Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection

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Removal of P from the family home: Permission to appeal refused

Counsel for the local authority said they would look to carry out the move on Thursday (two days later).  The judge explored with everyone how this would work in practice.  As always, Senior Judge …

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Removal of P from the family home: Permission to appeal refused

Counsel for the local authority said they would look to carry out the move on Thursday (two days later).  The judge explored with everyone how this would work in practice.  As always, Senior Judge …

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