Some of my posts might lead you to suppose that this blog is 'Judge-ist'! I admit that is true to a certain extent but I am always delighted to report on any exceptionally good examples of practice by our judiciary. Thus, I would ask you all to pop over and read a report from 'Gildas the Monk' on the case of Stephen Neary and Hillingdon Council. It is a long-ish tale but 'Brother Gildas' tells it well and I will not attempt to paraphrase it. Also, it shines a searchlight into an area of the law which could entangle any of us all too easily!
http://www.annaraccoon.com/court-of-protection/hillingdon-dol-house/#comment-52195
I just read the link about Steven Neary. Horrifying! And Gildas writes: "I do not think I need to express a view on how totalitarian" all this is. And that's the perfect word for it, "totalitarian", something out of North Korea.
Posted by: Dom | Wednesday, 11 January 2012 at 15:02
I sometimes think our so-called 'social services' are trained by Nurse Ratched!
And what a performance that was by Louise Fletcher:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_Ratched
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 11 January 2012 at 16:55