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Following the paper trail to Guatemala to uncover what records can’t reveal about access to Keytruda Fit for discharge and still in hospital five months later due to delay with eating and drinking plan
There’ s a deceptively simple solution to enable P to leave hospital – the development of an eating and drinking plan – but a complex…
Justice
Judge refuses to make Civil Restraint Order against P’s father
By Celia Kitzinger, 30th March 2026 A Court of Protection judge has refused an application from South Tyneside Council to make a Civil Restraint Order…
“Open Justice is not open sesame” Court of Appeal told in court document disclosure case
According to the appellant, an “urban myth” had developed about the application of the ‘open justice’ principle to Court of Protection hearings. Flowing from that…
Court of Appeal to decide whether open justice applies to the Court of Protection: Briefing for CA-2025-001953 Re Gardner
In this ‘advance briefing’, I will set out the relevant background and a short summary of the arguments of the appellant and the intervenors. I…
The gulf between theory and practice: Open justice in the Court of Appeal
By Celia Kitzinger, 24th February 2026 The judgment is now published (click on the title to read it) Lesley Barnor Townsend -v- Epsom and St…
Permission to appeal refused: A procedural dead end
By Elissa Novak (with an introduction by Celia Kitzinger), 22nd February 2026 This is effectively the third tranche of litigation in the long-running case concerning…