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Changes from the first edition and the reform of the Court of Protection
 
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1.13Over and above the updating that is required to incorporate developments in the case-law (such as those relating to the deprivation of liberty saga addressed in chapter 21), much of the book has been substantially rewritten to reflect the fact that the Court of Protection is a very different place to the court it was when we published the first edition in 2014. Not only are the majority of hearings now held in public under the Transparency Pilot (discussed in chapter 13), reforms were introduced in 2015 designed to secure the greater participation of P in proceedings (discussed in chapters 10 and 15), and, most recently, the Case Management Pilot began on 1 September 2016. The Case Management Pilot, which will run until 31 August 2017, is intended to effect a major change in the culture of both practitioners and the judiciary; it also – and not entirely helpfully – means that, for the length of the Pilot, practitioners and the judiciary will need to grapple with overlapping sets of rules. An overview of the Pilot is given in chapter 4 at para 4.101, and chapters 7–15 have been entirely recast to provide a guide through the Pilot.
Changes from the first edition and the reform of the Court of Protection
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