Court of Protection

Save Your Freedom – Please Retweet!

May 14, 2013 41 comments
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We need to ‘gird our loins’ and go to battle folks, I need your assistance on this one! Please retweet this post to anyone you think might pay attention, and kick into action those who you think will continue dozing. I know its easier to continue playing solitaire – but you could put your computer [...]

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The Secret Court and the Media.

April 29, 2013 42 comments
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The ‘news’ has to be massaged and imbued with emotive content to interest the Media. That which most of us would consider ‘news’ – citizens jailed without trial or representation; pension funds raided; savings devalued; citizens starved to death; citizens arrested on the basis of anonymous information; politicians defrauding public funds, is not ‘news’ to the Media. They know all [...]

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Love and Marriage, more or less than a legal contract?

January 29, 2013 18 comments
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Nietzsche, the German philosopher, said that marriage was ‘the will that moves two to create the one which is more than those who created it’. Throughout history, human beings have ignored the cold words of the law, and imbued marriage with a sometime spiritual, sometime quasi-mystic quality that transcends the requirements of the 1753 Marriage Act and its later versions. Christians [...]

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Is God Unemployed Now?

November 14, 2012 36 comments
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I ask because of a headline from the Independent this morning that I find stunning. ‘Brain damaged patient allowed to die with dignity’, Judge rules. It is the way the article is worded that interests me – not that Doctors are to be prevented from officiously striving to keep someone alive – but that it takes a Judge [...]

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Feminism and the Joy of Sex.

August 1, 2012 24 comments

I have been reading the case of ‘DD’ as she is known, yet another excellent example of the thinking applied to decisions made by the Court of Protection. There are several comments in the judgment that create unease in my mind, since they are based on assumptions. I acknowledge that those who live in the [...]

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Free Will and Social Services.

April 29, 2012 25 comments

The Lord Chancellor, as he was fondly known and had been for about 1400 years, until Tony Blair sought to distance himself from the wallpapering disaster known as Derry Irvine, devising a system of Kremlin-lite titles until finally settling on Secretary of State for Justice, originated as the King’s conscience. The man of letters and [...]

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Rotten Borough? – the Vicious Borough of Hillingdon.

March 20, 2012 30 comments
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Social Services have long memories, and a messianic distaste for having their noses tweaked by those with more power then they. Those with equally long memories will remember the case of Stephen Neary that we so successfully championed on this blog. Steven was the 20 year old autistic lad who, Hillingdon Borough Council, when presented [...]

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