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The court of protection

The link is to an article I have written in The Daily Telegraph about the Court of Protection.

What particularly concerns me about the Court of Protection is that there are judges to try to stop people complaining to their Members of Parliament.

If all is well in the Court then why are people not allowed to complain to their MP?

Comments

Zoompad said…
Perhaps we need a quango to protect us all from the court of protection? (only joking)
Zoompad said…
By the way, thank you for what you did for Senator Stuart Syvret.

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