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Judgment handed down by Mr Justice Cobb on 22nd January 2021 ___ This case concerned an elderly woman, GA, who has dementia and was represented by the Official Solicitor. She was cared for at home by her adult son TA. The court was concerned about the negative impact on the proceedings by the actions and conduct of TA and examined two issues: • If TA should be permitted to record the court hearings • the extent to which the court had power to restrict his communications with the court office.   Background In March 2019 the local authority responsible for meeting GA's needs under the Car...

Z v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust & Ors [2020] EWCOP 69 A decision by Mr Justice Cohen in the Court of Protection, which reiterated his previous decision to end life sustaining treatment for RS, an unconscious man in a vegetative state. This application had been brought by RS’s estranged birth family, who argued that RS would wish to be kept alive based on his Catholic faith and who sought to move him to Poland. Background RS is a middle-aged Polish man who, after suffering a cardiac arrest on 6 November 2020, has at best a 10-20% chance of progressing to the lowest end of a minim...

12 month sentence on committal application for falsifying a court order upheld This is an appeal from an order committing Dahlia Griffith ('the Appellant') to prison for 12 months for contempt of court. The background is set out in the judgment of MacDonald J ("the Judge") [2020] EWCOP 46.  The Appellant is a relative of P, who is in a specialist hospital with a permanent disorder of consciousness.  There were proceedings in the Court of Protection concerning P's best interests. In those proceedings P was represented by the Official Solicitor. During those proceedings, an issue arose regar...

KK v Leeds CC & DK [2020] EWCOP 64 This was a decision of Cobb J in which he considered the rules relating to joinder in Court of Protection Proceedings and the correct procedure in circumstances where the existing parties resist joinder of an applicant, but for reasons which are not openly stated. This was a decision of Mr Justice Cobb in Court of Protection proceedings concerning DK, a 19-year-old highly vulnerable woman with global learning disabilities, an autistic spectrum disorder, and associated profound needs. Leeds City Council ("the LA") asserted that DK lacked capacity to make dec...