Social Welfare Update: Assessing capacity to make decisions on use of internet and social media
Tuesday 23 Apr 2019
…Re B (Capacity: Social Media: Care and Contact) [2019] EWCOP 3, 21 February 2019, Cobb J Bethan Harris is a member of the Garden Court Chambers Court of Protection team….
Social Welfare Update: High Court’s inherent jurisdiction for the protection of vulnerable adults used to prevent a person from returning home to a life-threatening situation
Tuesday 23 Apr 2019
…full judgment here: Southend-on-Sea Borough Council v Mr Meyers [2019] EWHC 399 (Fam), Hayden J, 20 February 2019 Bethan Harris is a member of the Garden Court Chambers Court of Protection team….
Court of Protection: Costs order against local authority for delay in applying for review required under Re X order
Wednesday 30 May 2018
…authority after the hearing because it was seeking to re-argue points already decided by the judge. Bethan Harris is a member of the Garden Court Chambers Court of Protection team….
Social Welfare Update: Court of Protection – Best interests decisions in respect of a person suffering from end stage dementia
Tuesday 23 Apr 2019
…litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) and Others [2018] EWCA Civ 1067, Arden, Sharp and Peter Jackson LJJ, 11 May 2018 (application for permission to appeal) Bethan Harris is a member of…
Social Welfare Update: Court of Protection: Personal health budget with third-party brokerage; lack of alternative options
Tuesday 28 May 2019
…here: Harrow CCG v IPJ, IJJ and AJ (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) [2018] EWCOP 44, HHJ Hilder, 20 April 2019 Bethan Harris is a member of the Garden…
UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 2 Continues – Opening statement on behalf of Core Participants
Wednesday 4 Oct 2023
…Stephen Clark for Covid-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance (CATA) instructed by Cyrilia Knight of Saunders Law. Bethan Harris and Kirsten Heaven represent the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru , instructed…
UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 2 – Opening statement on behalf of Core Participants
Tuesday 3 Oct 2023
…the legal team and they are instructed by Conal McGarrity of P.A. Duffy & Co Solicitors. Our Bethan Harris and Kirsten Heaven represent Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru, instructed…
Garden Court Chambers shortlisted for record-breaking fourteen awards at The Legal 500 Bar Awards
Tuesday 9 Jul 2024
…for Clerk of the Year. Garden Court Chambers is shortlisted for Court of Protection Set of the Year, with our very own Bethan Harris and Tim Baldwin shortlisted for Court of Protection Junior…
Garden Court Chambers shortlisted for record-breaking TEN awards at The Legal 500 Bar Awards
Wednesday 12 Jul 2023
…and Community Care Set of the Year. With our very own Bethan Harris shortlisted for Court of Protection and Community Care Junior of the Year. Bethan is an experienced practitioner…
Non-binary student with special educational needs has his permanent exclusion overturned and is reinstated in time to take his GCSEs
Wednesday 20 Mar 2024
…the same panel of Governors that made the previous decision voted to uphold their previous decision, despite it having been quashed by the IRP. Oscar and Ollie assisted Bethany Parr…








