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Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and R (A Child): Why A Medical Treatment Significant Harm Test Would Hinder Not Help
This is a guest post by Katie Gollop QC and Sarah Pope. Katie represented Great Ormond Street hospital in the Charlie Gard case, and tweets as @katiegollop Sarah and Katie appeared in the recent case of Re R (A Child) [2018] EWFC 28. Sarah tweets as @sbvpope. Shortly...
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Talking about social work
We recently wrote about an article by Louise Tickle in the Guardian which had caused a certain amount of controversy, in particular arising from her use of the term 'kidnap' to describe failures of local authorities to act appropriately when accommodating children...
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The Abuse of Alfie’s Rights: A Gilded Death is Still a Death
Introduction: #AlfiesArmy v #ImWithAlderHey – an unbridgeable divide? Alfie's life, his legal battles, and his death, have polarised opinion. Decent people on both sides of the debate have been able to acknowledge how awful it must be to be in this situation – both to...
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Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and R (A Child): Why A Medical Treatment Significant Harm Test Would Hinder Not Help
This is a guest post by Katie Gollop QC and Sarah Pope. Katie represented Great Ormond Street hospital in the Charlie Gard case, and tweets as @katiegollop Sarah and Katie appeared in the recent case of Re R (A Child) [2018] EWFC 28. Sarah tweets as @sbvpope. Shortly...
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Talking about social work
We recently wrote about an article by Louise Tickle in the Guardian which had caused a certain amount of controversy, in particular arising from her use of the term 'kidnap' to describe failures of local authorities to act appropriately when accommodating children...
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Transparency – why it matters, what it means
This is the text of a speech delivered by Chair of The Transparency Project, Lucy Reed at the Bloomsbury Family Law Conference on 16 May 2018, at Gray’s Inn. Transparency - why it matters, what it means What IS transparency and why does it matter? Implications for...
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Why the Court of Protection gave permission for blood samples to be taken in Skripal poisoning case
The alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy now living in England, and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury earlier this month has been prominently reported in the news. Investigations into the nature of the military-grade nerve agent allegedly used on...
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Flying under the Radar: Experiencing the Court of Protection Transparency Pilot as an academic researcher
This is a guest post by Gillian Loomes, a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds Law School Earlier this year, I spent a month attending hearings in the Court of Protection (CoP) as a public observer. This was part of my PhD (a socio-legal study examining how the...
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Re Nichol: an unsent text message as a valid will
UPDATE 18 October - I've added a footnote to discuss some points which have been raised in Twitter conversations following my original post. On 11 October 2017, this headline appeared on the BBC news website. The story naturally aroused a lot of interest and...
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thanks both @katiegollop and @sbvpope - and to @CelticKnotTweet and @pollyemorgan and @SVPhillimore too! https://t.co/XUtsvsKJpe
Another thought provoking post about cases like Charlie and Alfie’s by @katiegollop and @sbvpope : https://t.co/I8vlcNQoH2
Earlier posts here : https://t.co/hPQx9kiTa1 and here : https://t.co/lD3PxB4W8p https://t.co/lFo3ZF5ksh
