This site accompanies
Court of Protection Handbook. On this site, you will find links to
relevant statutory materials and other
guidance that space precluded us from including in the appendices,
precedent orders covering most of the most common situations that arise before the Court, useful (free) web
resources, and updates on practice and procedure before the Court of Protection. These updates take the form of posts on the site’s
blog, and also (where relevant)
updates cross-referenced to the relevant paragraphs in the book.
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:42:15 +0000
Following the case of AH, in which the Court of Appeal expressed the “pressing need” for guidance in relation to judicial visits, the Vice-President of the Court of Protection has issued guidance on 10 February about such visits. In it, he sets out principles to apply and practicalities required to give effect to those principles. … Continue reading "Judicial visits to P – new guidance"
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:24:18 +0000
The quarterly online update to the Court of Protection Handbook is now available, covering key practice and procedure updates to the text of the main volume. It includes coverage of the decision in JB – the Supreme Court takes on capacity – and of AH – judicial visits, as well as other significant developments since November … Continue reading "Court of Protection Handbook Quarterly Update"
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 11:12:45 +0000
The quarterly online update to the Court of Protection Handbook is now available, covering key practice and procedure updates to the text of the main volume. We are also working on publishing the update in hard copy as a one-off inter-edition bonus – work on the next edition cannot properly start until we have more detail … Continue reading "Court of Protection Quarterly Update – November 2021"
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:43:29 +0000
Following the consultation on increasing selected court fees and Help with Fees income thresholds by inflation, the Government response to the consultation has been published and is available here. The SI to effect these changes has been laid today, 6 September 2021, and the changes will come into effect on 30 September 2021. Any questions regarding … Continue reading "Court fees increase from 30 September 2021"
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:34:22 +0000
A couple of days ahead of schedule, the quarterly online update to the Court of Protection Handbook is now available, covering key practice and procedure updates to the text of the main volume.
Sat, 01 May 2021 10:58:49 +0000
The quarterly online update to the Court of Protection Handbook is now available, covering such cases as Re P (Discharge of Party) on when the court can discharge a party of its own motion, Re MN on the limited steps that the court will consider taking under s.48, and Re P (another one) on the ‘white … Continue reading "Court of Protection Handbook Quarterly Update – May 2021"
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:27:26 +0000
The MoJ is consulting upon increasing court fees, including those relating to the Court of Protection, as follows: The proposal, if implemented, would backdate increases to fees by inflationto 2016 or (if later than 2016) the year the fee was last increased. The consultation runs until 17 May 2021, and can be found here.
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:46:45 +0000
HMCTS have announced that: To further support digital working within the Court of Protection we are starting to use electronic filing of documents (aka e-filing) for all Deprivation of Liberty cases. This involves the introduction of an automated system where correspondence and attachments received by email are placed directly onto the court’s digital files (e-files).As … Continue reading "CoP e-filing for deprivation of liberty cases"
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:27:21 +0000
Two Practice Notes have been published by the Official Solicitor, Sarah Castle, setting out important practicalities relating the appointment of the Official Solicitor as litigation friend of the person concerned (“P”) in the Court of Protection and requests by the court to the Official Solicitor to act as, or appoint counsel to act as an … Continue reading "Official Solicitor Practice Notes"
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:22:48 +0000
The quarterly online update to the Court of Protection Handbook is now available, covering such cases as TA on recording remote hearings, AMDC v AG & Anor on expert reports on capacity and KK on non-disclosure of material on the basis of harm to P.