Family Law Week: Griffith v P [2020] EWCA Civ 1675
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...