Celia Kitzinger
Promoting #OpenJustice in the Court of Protection #NotSecretCourt
Check out our website: openjusticecourtofprotection.org
Also all things Lake District + Cumbria including hiking, literature, & other stuff that interests me!
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerDay 25 post-left-knee replacement - and I'm back on the fells! Yippee! Gorgeous light for my first Wainwright (of Round 4): the mighty Latrigg
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerNew blog post How do appeals work in the Court of Protection - why do they fail, and how are they different from reconsiderations, or hearings after a material change in circumstance. By Robert Sharp openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/04/a...
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- Reposted by Celia KitzingerNew blog post by @kitzingercelia.bsky.social Successful application to disapply Section 12(1) of the Administration of Justice Act: Making Polly’s statutory will application public openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/18/s...
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerStop referencing fake case citations, judges warned www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/stop-re...
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- Reposted by Celia KitzingerNew blog post by @jennykitzinger.bsky.social Judge acts as mediator between two sisters in dispute about their mother's care... openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/11/s...
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerThere's a private hearing today in Pontypridd County Court. Someone is being deprived of their liberty - on the application (I think) of Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. Following recent experiences in Wales, I'm concerned about private hearings there + will ask to observe.
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerEvidence of the need for marriage law reform in England and Wales where humanists cannot conduct legally binding marriages ⬇️
- It’s official! There have now been 5,000 legally recognised humanist marriages in Northern Ireland since their introduction in 2018. What a wonderful milestone! humanists.uk/2026/01/13/n...
- Reposted by Celia Kitzinger8 more hiking miles for #nhs1000miles this week (YTD 16 miles) + a new left knee yesterday! Might be rather fewer miles for the next few weeks …
- ** This is wonderful A court that exceeds expectation. A court that wants P not just to have "care and support" but also to be RADIANT - glowing, joyful, uplifted. Sometimes a typo reveals what's often missing....
- What a shambles. P's bank account locked for nearly 4 years and care home fees unpaid (with his daughter being put under pressure to do something) after COP apparently lost a Deputyship application when a judge went off sick. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/06/a...
- None of these 90+ year old protected parties was in court. I doubt most of them even knew about the court case. I *really* don't want to be in this situation when I'm in my 80s or 90s but can't see how to avoid it.....
- New blog post - five people in their 90s at the centre of COP hearings in December.... and @kitzingercelia.bsky.social ponders whether she can plan ahead to avoid being a P in her old age (and decides probably not). openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/04/l...
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerGentle start for #nhs1000miles 2026. 2 small Wainwright summits for 8 very frosty boots-on hiking miles. Here's us on #Dodd this morning. Pretty sure this will be my last summit before knee surgery next Sat, tho' I hope to clock a few more miles this week #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerRecommended (and further to my post here: pinktape.co.uk/rants/lawyer...) : naturalandartificiallaw.com/ai-in-judici...
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerLast (short) hike of 2025, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social: a chilly wander over Latrigg. Here's the view over Derwentwater into Borrowdale and the high fells beyond. Happy New Year everyone!
- Fleetwith Pike on Christmas Day
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerThis is a long read but an important one for anyone interested in how the Court of Protection, or indeed any public service, interacts with families. It is a shocking and very frightening case and I'm hugely grateful to Zoe and to Celia for sharing it.
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Lord Sumption in his own words is almost always more impressive than other people’s gloss of his arguments and thinking would suggest. “Perhaps the second worst sin that a judge in the final court of appeal can commit is accidentally to decide half a dozen other cases that aren’t before him.“- Specialist practitioners + judges sometimes lose the habit of looking over the garden wall at what’s happening next door so you get little islands of law governed by completely different principles to the whole of the rest of the law. (Sumption) openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/10/j...
- This shocking case has generated lots of comments (scroll down to the bottom of the blog post. Thank you to everyone who has sent kind messages to Zoe. No family should be put through this kind of trauma.
- New blog post Systems-generated trauma and closed proceedings: Hywel Dda University Health Board v P & Anor [2024] EWCOP 70 (T3) openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/14/s...
- My (now) severely brain-injured sister Polly once drew an image of herself wrestling with complex vocabulary. It was pinned up over @jennykitzinger.bsky.social's desk for sisterly solidarity as she dealt with making a COP application for Polly. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/12/09/a...
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerYesterday in London, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social: Banksy exhibition and Christmas lights in Regent Street & Russell Square
- Reposted by Celia Kitzinger10.5 hiking miles for me this week. Today's outing - a Sale Fell circuit with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - may well be my last fell walk of the year: my (second) total knee replacement happens on 13 December. Hope to get a few more gentle miles in before then. #LakeDistrict #NHS1000miles
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- Reposted by Celia KitzingerIt's 30.5 boots-on hiking miles for me since I last posted for #nhs1000miles Here are a few more pics from this week's snow in the #LakeDistrict (Tewet Tarn x2, view towards Clough Head & the Dodds, Castlerigg Stone Circle) @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Celia KitzingerMinus 4 degrees at Castlerigg stone circle this morning - and we had it to ourselves. (That's @kitzingercelia.bsky.social in the red jacket.) Another fabulous snow day in the #LakeDistrict
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerFour views of #Skiddaw from this morning: from #Portinscale; across Nichol End Marine; from Lingholm Kitchen (walled garden in foreground); and across #Derwentwater (greylag and canada geese under the trees) #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
- Just a scattering of snow on Causey Pike this morning...
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- Reposted by Celia KitzingerThe Local Authority want P to vacate the property voluntarily whilst his property is cleared. Failing that, they want P removed forcibly, using restraint if necessary. Blog by @doccmartin.bsky.social #NotSecretCourt openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/16/h...
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerGot all Wordsworthian seeing recent post from @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social about Lowick Common. 1st extract is from Dorothy's journal of 3 Oct 1800; 2nd is from William's "Resolution & Independence", written 1802, published 1807. For more info, see: www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reser...
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerSometimes, Curlew nest are so well hidden that even the other local wildlife gets a surprise! 😄 📷 James Wellock Note: this Curlew nest was fenced off from grazing dairy cows
- Public observers disillusioned and dismayed by what they see in the Supreme Court. Not what judges hope for from open justice! openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/10/w...
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- Reposted by Celia KitzingerOpen justice is supposed to enhance public trust + confidence in the justice system - but in this case it had the opposite effect. What does the Supreme Court need to do differently to make sure COP observers have a better experience next time? openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/10/w...
- This is what I'll be doing later today. Why not join us? It's not too late! Send an email to openjustice@yahoo.com and we'll send you the link. All welcome.
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerWhy not observe a hearing in the Court of Protection and learn more about the challenges faced by judges, lawyers, families and P when decision-making capacity is deemed lost. We tell you how to find a hearing, how to log on and what to expect. And we have a "buddy" system if you want support.
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerGiven current watery conditions here in Cumbria, I'm enjoying Hardwicke Rawnsley's account of the Keswick floods of 25 Oct 1888: '...when it siles down reet gaily, every road becomes a sike, and every sike a beck, and every beck a river'. Apparently the sexton of Crosthwaite church was undeterred:
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- Reposted by Celia Kitzinger29 miles this week - and that takes me over the #nhs1000miles goal (the earliest in the year I've ever met it)! My YTD is now 1021 boots-on hiking miles. Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn. @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerDeer-stalking in Martindale with the Roamers again today (other side of the valley from 2 weeks ago). Just as spectacular: the rut is still in full swing! Highlight was seeing this stag rolling in a wallow ... @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerDay 2 of the Supreme Court Hearing reconsidering Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Tuesday 21st October See our website for a summary of Day 1 and details of how to follow on the livestream: openjusticecourtofprotection.org
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerAdded 32 more boots-on hiking miles for #nhs1000miles this week. Highlights were THOSE #LakeDistrict inversions at the beginning of the week. (They lasted into Thursday for those who got high enough to be above the gradually-rising cloud layer.) Can't resist 4 (more) pix! @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerIn London for a celebration. The Mary Beale arboretum looked gorgeous in the rain ... @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerBeing there as Luba MacPherson was taken away to prison is an experience I won’t ever forget. Read about the hearing in this new blog by me and @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Celia KitzingerInversion cloud layer between Skiddaw and Blencathra - video taken from the Skiddaw summit plateau at lunchtime today #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Celia Kitzinger30 more hiking miles for #nhs1000miles this week. Today - back o'Skiddaw - was all about cloud inversions #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerThe second in our series of blogs about the upcoming Supreme Court hearing concerning DOLS and Northern Ireland. "Cheshire West revisited" By @thesmallplaces.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/10/09/c...
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerHoping for an inversion on Skiddaw this morning - but didn't quite happen ... @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
- Back o Blencathra with sun, swirling mist, and curlews
- Reposted by Celia KitzingerSome environmental good news for once: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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