Stoke City Council v Maddocks [2012] EWHC B31 (COP), [2012] MHLO 111

(1) One of JM's children, WM, had breached court orders by, amongst other things, (a) arranging for JM to be taken from the care home to hear judgment delivered, and separately to see a solicitor, (b) discussing the possibility of moving back home with him, (c) harassing her father and employees of the local authority and care home. (2) WM was sentenced to five months' imprisonment for contempt because (a) there had been a considerable number of breaches of court orders, and (b) she had no intention, unless restrained by a severe measure by the court, of obeying the orders herself.

Related judgments

Stoke City Council v Maddocks [2013] EWHC 1137 (COP), [2013] MHLO 38

Other

Counsel for the Applicant: Miss Khalique

Solicitor for the First Respondent: Mr Gripton

The Second, Third and Fourth Respondents did not attend and were not represented

Citations

SCC v JM, IM, WM, EM (unreported, 31 August 2012)

Thanks

Thanks to Alex Ruck Keene (39 Essex Chambers) for providing the judgment.

External links

BAILII
. The transcript appeared on Bailii in April 2013 with the following note: 'The Judge has agreed that the following parties in the case may be identified: Stoke City Council, the Applicant; John Maddocks, First Respondent (now deceased); Wanda Maddocks, Third Respondent'.

Transcript. Original anonymised version published in November 2012.

Lucy Series, 'Human Rights will be in touch' (The Small Places Blog, 24/4/13)

Steve Doughty, 'Jailed in secret - for trying to rescue her father from care home where she believed he would die' (Daily Mail, 23/4/13)

Andy Dolan, 'Agony of woman locked up for six weeks by secret court just for trying to get her Dad out of care home: The terrifying moment police descended to "cart me off to jail"' (Daily Mail, 24/4/13)

Andy McSmith, 'Justice Secretary asks for review of Court of Protection's powers' (Independent, 2/5/13)