Court of Protection
The Court of Protection makes decisions on financial or welfare matters for people who can’t make decisions at the time they need to be made (they ‘lack mental capacity’).
This court began to regularly transfer judgments to The National Archives in 2022. The oldest judgment from this court included in Find Case Law is from 2009.
You can read more about it on the Court of Protection page on the HM Courts and Tribunals Service website.
Coverage on Find Case Law
Date range — 2009 to 2026
What’s included — We currently hold 794 documents from 2009 to 2026.
Recent judgments
| Case name | Neutral citation | Handed down |
|---|---|---|
| PK & MK (Article 8 Protections), Re | Neutral citation[2026] EWCOP 52 (T2) | Handed down |
| BM (Deprivation of Liberty), Re | Neutral citation[2026] EWCOP 48 (T2) | Handed down |
| Various Applications in respect of ‘Direct Payments’, Re | Neutral citation[2026] EWCOP 42 (T2) | Handed down |
| AR (Whether restrictions amount to a deprivation of liberty), Re | Neutral citation[2026] EWCOP 45 (T2) | Handed down |
| Derby City Council v SM | Neutral citation[2026] EWCOP 46 (T2) | Handed down |
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