Court of Protection Practice 2025

The Court of Protection Practice is the leading procedural court reference work governing this fast-developing jurisdiction. It provides a comprehensive and highly accessible 'one-stop-shop' which ensures that practitioners have all the latest developments in a single, portable volume.

What's new for 2025?

The 2025 Edition has been enhanced and updated throughout to include:

• In depth coverage of recent and important case law, including: decisions on covert medical treatment, and obstetric treatment: Re A (Covert Medication: Residence) [2024] EWCOP 19 (Poole J) and at [2024] EWCA Civ 572 (Court of Appeal) and a series of cases about decisions relating to obstetric treatment * A Hospital Trust v CP [2024] EWCOP 7 (Henke J), Rotherham and Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust v NR and Another [2024] EWCOP 17 (Hayden J), Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust v SC and Another [2024] EWCOP 69 (T3) (Cusworth J) and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust v PQ [2024] EWCOP 73 (T3) (Peel J). Further significant decisions relating to the withdrawal of clinically-assisted nutrition and hydration, including GUP v EUP and UCLH NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWCOP 3 (Hayden J), Re AA (Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment: No Best Interests Decision) [2024] EWCOP 39 (T3) (Henke J), Re XY [2024] EWCOP 37 (T3) (Hayden J), King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v XY and XZ [2024] EWCOP 68 (Arbuthnot J), NHS North West London Integrated Care Board v AB and Others [2024] EWCOP 62 (Theis J) and NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board v Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability and Another [2024] EWCOP 66 (T3) (also Theis J). Evaluation of the capacity to engage in sexual relations, including Poole J in Re EE (Capacity: Contraception and Conception) [2024] EWCOP 5, Theis J in Re ZZ (Capacity) [2024] EWCOP 21 and the Court of Appeal in Re ZX (Capacity to Engage in Sexual Relations) [2024] EWCA Civ 1462, and much more
• Narrative sections relating to the Court of Protection's work and jurisdiction written by judges and practitioners in the field with an unrivalled knowledge of practice and procedure
• A new section dealing with interface between the jurisdiction of the Court of Protection relating to incapacitated adults and the family jurisdiction relating to teenagers
• Commentary on the rules which takes account of the latest practice in the court
• The most up to date precedents and forms
• An overview of the year from The Right Honourable Lord Justice Baker