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kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Promoting #OpenJustice in the Court of Protection #NotSecretCourt Check out our website: openjusticecourtofprotection.org Also all things Lake District + Cumbria including hiking, literature, & other stuff that interests me!
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This post about daughter’s wish for unsupervised contact with Mum over Xmas is criticised by COP lawyer Sam Green. Were bloggers unfair to the judge? Read responses by @danielclark.bsky.social & @amandaaphill.bsky.social What do you think? openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/23/l...

Three featured hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday 25 February 2025. Including a serious medical treatment case (diabetes) before Mr Justice Garrido. openjusticecourtofprotection.org

I have updated my post on being an expert in prolonged disorders of consciousness, not including a section on what an expert is, how you judge, and what I think characterises my expertise. rehabilitationmatters.com/being-a-prol... #neurorehabilitation

Last October I was in London to investigate how accessible (or not) two court buildings are. First Avenue House fared much better than the Royal Courts of Justice but both were plagued by small text on signs. Even a notice that said you could ask for documents in large print were in small print!

New blog post from the Open Justice Court of Protection Project. Hayden J approves experimental treatment requested by woman with anorexia. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/02/03/j...

New blog post by @JennyKitzinger What is wrong with Deprivation of Liberty and selling P’s home to pay care fees? openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/02/10/w... via @OpenJusticeCoP

New blog post from the Open Justice Court of Protection Project. Hayden J approves experimental treatment requested by woman with anorexia. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/02/03/j...

I've written on the Sara Sharif proceedings and why judicial anonymity was a mistake: thecritic.co.uk/judges-are-n...

I spoke about the judicial oversight provisions in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (the Assisted Dying Bill) with Max Hill KC and Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today this morning (starts at 2 hrs 36 mins in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Beautiful Tasmanian coast

Amazing walk along the Bay of Fires Tasmania staying in bush camp and remote lodge overlooking the sea - wonderful experience!

Tasmanian hiking, inc the painted cliffs of Maria Island & the glorious beaches & rocky headlands of Freycinet National Park

Beautiful Bay of Fires, Tasmania

Amazing walk along the Bay of Fires Tasmania staying in bush camp and remote lodge overlooking the sea - wonderful experience!

Hiking in Tasmania - enjoying blue skies and sandy beaches, wombats, wallabies, parrots and platypuses, and learning about convict history

Ooh, look! What’s that? Hiking on the Three Capes Track Tasmania

Just finished the Three Capes Track (Tasmania)- fantastic mix of costal scenery, cloud forest, transitional rain forest with tree ferns, button grass heathland (oh and leeches!)

Just finished the Three Capes Track (Tasmania)- fantastic mix of costal scenery, cloud forest, transitional rain forest with tree ferns, button grass heathland (oh and leeches!)

Ooh, look! What’s that? Hiking on the Three Capes Track Tasmania

Hiking in Tasmania - enjoying blue skies and sandy beaches, wombats, wallabies, parrots and platypuses, and learning about convict history

Long read: Deprivation Of Liberty ongoing case re a most distinguished person. The glacial pace of the local authority actions feel familiar although I must say I don’t encounter it too often.

New blog post by @doccmartin.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/01/09/d...

New blog post from @kitzingercelia.bsky.social @openjusticecop.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/01/07/u...

My new blog post about yet another committal hearing - there was a run of them before Xmas openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/01/03/a...

Senior judges have asked the justice secretary Shabana Mahmood to allow judicial review claims to be live-streamed in the same way as civil and family appeals. rozenberg.substack.com/p/jr-on-tv

Boxing Day bimble on #SaleFell with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - stunning mackerel skies and reflections of Skiddaw in a very calm Bassenthwaite Lake. (Wished we'd had time to go higher and further east to get above those amazing #cloudinversions ...)

Seeking the light - a Christmas morning bimble on #Barrow with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social #LakeDistrict Merry Christmas all!

** New blog post openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/23/l...

UPDATE The Faculty of intensive Care Medicine Legal & Ethical Policy Unit will publish Guidance likely to advise doctors considering putting an anorexic patient into induced coma for re-feeding should make an application to the Court of Protection. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/14/a...

Has anybody seen an injunction as wide-ranging as this one in the Court of Protection, extending as far as the family of health care professionals? In a Transparency Order that I was sent this week for a hearing I observed back in October. It’s for a research project I’m working on. Thanks!

A harrowing read about emergency medical treatment that raises questions about anorexia treatments Now with comments from expert witness Tim Farmer (scroll to the end of the blog post) #OpenJustice #NotSecretCourt openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/14/a...

this sounds so interesting - the history of hurt feelings and the law

www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...

My new blog post Would love to hear people's views on treating anorexia this way. It's not something I'd come across before. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/14/a...

In one of the #GrasmereDialectPlays, George proposes to Rachel. He quotes his father: why pay "good brass" to hire a servant, "when ye can hev a missis wi' a pair o' strang arms, and a good headpiece to dew a' ye want up at t' house". Will she accept him? Find out @grasdialectplays.bsky.social

Just posted! New (13-min) podcast on the #GrasmereDialectPlays, featuring three (highly entertaining!) marriage proposals Head on over to @grasdialectplays.bsky.social to listen

My brilliant friend @sjblakemore.bsky.social has written about her dad, Sir Colin Blakemore, his diagnosis of MND, his desire for an assisted death and his experience of palliative care. Beautiful piece, full of love, that tells us assisted dying is complex, and death - un’assisted’ - can be gentle❤️

Silver How - our 83rd post-knee-surgery Wainwright on a cloudy day, followed by curry at The Yan (Grasmere) and a brilliant solo performance of "A Christmas Carol" @dyadproductions.bsky.social

Exhilarating walk up Place Fell across crunchy grass and icy boulders to a frozen tarn. Splendid views throughout! Our 82nd post-knee-surgery Wainwright!

Fellbarrow and Low Fell (that's 81 post-knee-surgery Wainwrights) on a cold bright day, golden light and icy wind.

Fellbarrow and Low Fell (that's 81 post-knee-surgery Wainwrights) on a cold bright day, golden light and icy wind.

The 9 #GrasmereDialectPlays written by Eleanor Rawnsley (nee Simpson) include *37* marriage proposals! They're a central plot device: despite clumsy suitors, meddling relatives, romantic triangles, & disparities of status, romance triumphs in the end. New podcast - 3 proposals - coming soon!

New blog by @jennykitzinger.bsky.social "...sometimes families are exactly the right people to promote P’s voice." But was her voice heard? Family thought not, but Court of Appeal found judge was "entitled to entertain doubts" about P's wishes. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/04/a...