Court Of Protection And The Independent's Investigation Into Urgent Applications

EDM number 290 in 2013-14, proposed by John Hemming on 24/06/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Administration of justice and Courts.

That this House congratulates The Independent on its exposure of the Government's complacency about the lack of scrutiny on out-of-hours applications to the Court of Protection; believes that as an absolute minimum statistics should be maintained as to the number of out-of-hours applications and their outcomes; recognises that such ex parte applications have the risk of creating a judicial momentum that families have difficulty in resisting; and calls for the Justice Committee to review this issue.

This motion has been signed by a total of 3 MPs.