Court of Protection in United Kingdom

Note: for more information, see the the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the practices and procedures of the Court of Protection and the information from the Public Guardianship Office.

Definition of Court of Protection

In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Court of Protection : A court that administers the property and affairs of persons of unsound mind, formerly called the Management and Administration Department. The head of the court is called the Master.

Contents

This topic includes:

• Capacity and best interests
• Practice and procedure in the new Court of Protection
• The deputy
• Application to appoint a deputy
• Changing and ending the deputyship
• The duties of a property and affairs deputy
• Sale and purchase of property
• Litigation
• Trusts and trustees
• Costs
• Gifts and other dispositions of property
• Enduring powers of attorney
• Lasting powers of attorney
• Foreign matters.

The Court of Protection

Name

The Court of Protection is the standarized name of one of the England and Wales Subordinate and Other Courts (see the entries in this legal Encyclopedia about court rules and procedural law for more information on some aspects of the Court of Protection in the England and Wales court system). [rtbs name=”courts”]