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19 September 2014
Issue: 7622 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Re X and others (deprivation of liberty) [2014] EWCOP 25, [2014] All ER (D) 43 (Aug)

Following the Supreme Court decision in Surrey County Council v P and others [2014] All ER (D) 185 (Mar), a concern arose following the judgment around the practical and procedural implications for the Court of Protection of what had been agreed would be the large increase in its case-load of, deprivation of liberty cases which would follow in consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision. In order to address the increase, the Court of Protection devised a standardised, and so far as possible “streamlined”, process, compatible with all the requirements of Art 5 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

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