Amanda Hill

@AmandaAPHill

PhD student @CardiffJomec @CardiffUni. Core group @openjusticeCOP Family member of a P in a CoP case and former Litigant in Person (Transparency Order varied)

Joined August 2022

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Amanda Hill @AmandaAPHill Apr 11, 2025

I'm so happy that I can tell our story openly, and not have to hide under the pseudonym Anna, as I have done for the last few years. Thank you @KitzingerCelia for all of your support - you are amazing. And my fellow
@OpenJusticeCoP team members.

openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/04/09/our…

openjusticecourtofprotection.org Our ordinary story ….and how it became an unbelievable family experience of the Court of Protection By Amanda Hill, 9 April 2025 (Amanda previously wrote a blog about her experience in March 2023. She had to write that under a pseudonym, Anna. This is what she wrote at the time: Last weekend I re…

Amanda Hill @AmandaAPHill Jun 22

This is a shocking case
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Open Justice Court of Protection Project @OpenJusticeCoP Jun 22

Fit for discharge for the last 8 months and still in hospital: Yet more delay (and Lieven J offers to mediate) by @copscandal and @AmandaAPHill
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/06/21/fit… via @OpenJusticeCoP
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Amanda Hill @AmandaAPHill Jun 7

In my opinion, a very useful explainer of last week’s Supreme Court judgment reversing Cheshire West, concerning Deprivation of Liberty. It’s
measured and sets out the issues clearly. They don’t see the decision as an attack on disability rights.

buds.org.uk/the-supreme-co…

buds.org.uk The Supreme Court’s Decision About ‘Deprivation of Liberty’ The Supreme Court has made a key decision about when people legally can be said to be ‘deprived of their liberty’.

Amanda Hill @AmandaAPHill May 18

HHJ Burrows has published a judgment about contact restrictions. Helpfully, @Capacitylaw has published a blog summarising the main points. One key take away for me is that "the court has limited powers over care providers" (§18).
mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/the-contact-co…

www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk The contact constraints on the Court of Protection The issue of visiting in care homes is a distinctly hot topic at the time of writing (May 2026). Linked, it appears, to high profile media coverage, DHSC has announced a review of Regulation 9A of…

Amanda Hill @AmandaAPHill May 13

I’ve been following this case for over a year. The protected party is still in hospital when she should be home. And I understand her care providers have just pulled out. Nobody seems to be accepting responsibility. It’s so grim and I really feel for P and her siblings

Celia Kitzinger @KitzingerCelia May 12

"The ICB + LA were directed to file a care plan by 29 July 2025. They didn’t. Then another deadline was set for the ICB to produce the plan by 1 December 2025. Again, it’s not been produced."

A sorry tale.

How do public bodies get away with repeated non-compliance?
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