Medical ethics, Law. Professor Emerita, Cardiff University. Co-director @cdocUK
Cardiff, Penarth, Wales
Joined December 2013
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My blog @OpenJusticeCoP explores what ‘Liberty’ meant to my sister Polly;
how #DoLS worked & what #AGNI might mean for her future (objection & ‘valid consent’).
First time I’ve written much re. what’s happened 17 yrs since her crash.
Comments v. welcome
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A valuable autoethnography on “Parental perceptions of the transition to residential care of an autistic adult with intellectual disability” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4259…
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Reducing restrictions for a person deprived of his liberty: internet use, access to services and ensuring appropriate support
By @JennyKitzinger
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Deprivation of Liberty safeguards #DoLS
Seminar: end of the acid test
- what every advocate & health & social care professional needs to know
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‘Deprivation of Liberty’ was given as reason for not doing up wheelchair lap-belt for my profoundly brain-injured sister
(contrary to best interests assessment & care plan).
Have others encountered such misunderstanding of #DoLS? @HeadwayUK openjusticecourtofprotection…
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My sister @JennyKitzinger writes about our family's experience of what Polly's life is like since losing capacity following a car crash. Focus is on 'deprivation of liberty' but the blog casts a grim light on Polly's life generally. Make your Advance Decision today @AGoodDeath
"The framework put in place by the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards has enormous symbolic (and some real) power [...] But the system has also been frustrating, not always fit for purpose, and can cause harm."
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New blog by @JennyKitzinger exploring how DoLS have helped, and harmed, her sister Polly, and what the Supreme Court's recent judgment might mean for her
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Court of Appeal to decide whether open justice applies to the Court of Protection: Briefing for CA-2025-001953 Re Gardner openjusticecourtofprotection… via @OpenJusticeCoP
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Is there space for clinical decision-making in relation to incapacitated adults? The CA pronounces: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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Withdrawing clinically inappropriate life-sustaining treatment - the latest Strasbourg word: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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“Contested Decision-making about Life-sustaining Treatment for adults after catastrophic brain injury”
Public lecture at @UniofOxford by Prof Lynne Turner-Stokes. 19th March, 5.45pm
Further info + Register for online link, or to reserve a seat in person:
gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events…
Health Board acknowledges unlawful behaviour in failing to consult patient’s LPA
& judge penalised Health Board with costs as “it was only the bringing of an application (to the Court) by the attorney which led to changes in the man’s care and treatment.”
A disturbing case
Attorneys, failures to consult and consequences: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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How to vary the duration of a Transparency Order from “until further order of the court” to “until the death of P”: My family’s Court of Protection story continued
By @AmandaAPHill
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New blog post
Consultation with Health and Welfare Attorneys/Deputies: A ‘lacuna in the system’ exposed in Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB v RW
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I was in a psychiatric hospital as a lesbian teenager in 1974 but the "cure" (it didn't work) was talking therapy. I was lucky to avoid this.
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New blog
Systems-generated trauma and closed proceedings: Hywel Dda University Health Board v P & Anor [2024] EWCOP 70 (T3)
By @KitzingerCelia
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Update thread on our application to the CoP for my sister to become a joint & several deputy for Steven. This is at the insistence of the OPG & was raised after I did Steven's annual OPG report last Christmas. 1/
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There's a very dark irony to all the CoP & OPG stuff. The OPG took exception to plans I made when I got the first cancer diagnosis back in 2018. 7 years on, I'm lucky to still be here but without those plans Steven could have been up shit creek. Systems always come before people.
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New blog post by @JennyKitzinger
Applying for a statutory will: Observation and personal experience openjusticecourtofprotection… via @OpenJusticeCoP
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👀 It’s a smasher of an episode.
Our Prof of Social Care @sarasiobhan discusses her new book on the unfair treatment of people with learning disabilities on 'The Skies We're Under' podcast.
Listen 🔗 podbean.com/media/share/pb-m…
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