View source for Re P (2010) COP 23/12/10 (Mostyn J)

''There was effectively a presumption against deprivation of liberty (pursuant to [[MCA 2005 s1]](6)) and, on the facts, the balance tilted in favour of P returning  home pending a final hearing at which full evidence could be considered.'' [Summary based on counsel's case report.]

==Summary==
The following text is reproduced, with permission, from 39 Essex St's January 2011 update:

'''Challenge to a DOLS standard authorisation'''

Victoria Butler-Cole appeared for P’s daughter in a challenge to a standard authorisation under s.21A MCA 2005.  The case concerned P, an elderly gentleman with moderate dementia, who had been kept against his wishes in a care home since early November 2010.  The local authority had prevented him returning home after a stay in hospital due to concerns raised by P’s general practitioner. 

At an interim hearing before Mostyn J on 23 December 2010, it was held that P should return home notwithstanding that it was accepted that better care would be provided in the care home, that there were risks to P of returning home, and in the face of opposition from the local authority and the Official Solicitor.  The Official Solicitor did not express a view as to the merits of the original grounds of challenge to the SA but argued that P ought to remain in the care home until, at the very least, better evidence was available to satisfy him and the Court that it was in P 's best interests to return home. The judge accepted evidence from P’s family that P was ‘desperately unhappy’ and wanted to leave the care home.  He held that there was effectively a presumption against deprivation of liberty (pursuant to s.1(6) MCA 2005), and on the facts, the balance tilted in favour of P returning home pending a final hearing at which full evidence could be considered.  

==External link==
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[[Media:Essex newsletter 5.pdf|39 Essex Street, 'Court of Protection Newsletter' (issue 5, January 2011)]]

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