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New blog Detention in hospital, capacity and treatment: Silent contributions from P in court - hearing before HHJ Burrows By Celia Kitzinger openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/11/07/det… via Open Justice Court of Protection Project

The patient with no friends or family: A challenge for best interests assessment by Jenny Kitzinger #NotSecretCourt #OpenJustice openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/11/15/the… via Open Justice Court of Protection Project

Very sad and troubling case sensitively explored by ⁦Jenny Kitzinger⁩ The patient with no friends or family: A challenge for best interests assessment – Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/11/15/the…

2. This thread is aimed squarely at my mum’s travel insurer, AXA, and their failure to take account of my mum’s best interests when considering repatriating her home to the UK. @axa AXA Insurance UK @AxaUK

5. This already hellish situation has been made immeasurably worse by the approach taken by AXA, including refusing to take account of medical advice from neurologists that it is not in Jane’s best interests to fly at this stage of her injury.

“It is a process that isn’t fair”: Structural injustice in the Court of Protection by Daniel Clark openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/11/24/it-… via Open Justice Court of Protection Project

NEW BLOG Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment Daughter is appealing Arbuthnot's decision Court of Appeal today (26 Nov) - live streamed judiciary.uk/the-court-of-a… Scroll down to: Re HM (by litigation friend,the Official Solicitor) openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/11/25/wit… via Open Justice Court of Protection Project

My new blog reporting from the Court of Protection. The daughter is going to court this morning for permission to appeal a decision that will allow her mother to die. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/11/25/wit…

"Mother was subjected to a Deprivation of Liberties, that deprived her of her love of freedom and her love of family, in short, her love of life." Harrowing, raw testimony the impact of 'safeguarding' - all health, social & COP professionals should read. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/01/bur…

A follow up to Jenny Kitzinger ‘s previous blog about the Court of Protection hearing in this case. She concludes by saying ‘perhaps, given the clinical realities, doctors should simply have said that life- sustaining treatment was no longer an available option.’ #NotSecretCourt

My new blog: ‘families are not inevitably the best people to advocate for a patient. But sometimes families are exactly the right people to promote ‘P’s voice’ – and that is the strong sense I got with this family.” But the judge made a different decision

Thinking a lot about family today as I walk out the back door of my family home for last time. My parents, now both dead, loved this house & lived here for over half a century. So many memories in each room & the fabric of the building. This afternoon the new owners move in.

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The Sunday Times refer to a man with MND as “wheelchair bound” and then report he was so ashamed to use one when he became disabled that he fractured his skull trying to walk. Do they see how these two things might be linked? Media depictions of disability matter.

Interesting to read Mail’s account of this tragic case. Family believe this unconscious woman blinks on request. This was disputed in court by nurses/drs caring for her & ‘second opinion’ experts. Why assert as fact & not report diverse sources? dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Families are routinely barred from saying they have a relative in these court cases & this impacts on journalism too JOMEC @ Cardiff Uni PhD student unpacks the implications & a successful challenge to the ban here, co-written with Celia Kitzinger Cardiff Law & a mother: Heather Walton

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