Source Currency : March 2026. The Court of Protection Practice is the leading procedural court reference work governing this fast-developing jurisdiction. It provides a comprehensive and highly accessible ‘one-stop-shop’. This new edition has been further enhanced and updated throughout, thus ensuring that practitioners have all the latest developments at their fingertips. The 2026 Edition has been enhanced and updated throughout to include coverage of: Coverage of new and significant case law: Re AB (ADRT: Validity and Applicability) [2025] EWCOP 20 (T3) (Poole J) on advance decisions, Re AB & Ors [2025] EWCOP 27 (T3) (McKendrick J) on the location of missing vulnerable adults, Nottinghamshire County Council v SV & Anor [2025] EWCOP 37 (T3) (Lieven J) on fact-finding hearings A number of cases about transparency, notably W v P [2025] EWCOP 11 (T3) (Rajah J), a case concerning a statutory will, and Re Gardner (Deceased) (Duration of Transparency Order) [2025] EWCOP 34 (T3) (Poole J), concerning the continuation of a transparency order after P’s death Important medical treatment cases reported in 2025 including NHS South East London Integrated Care Board v JP & Ors [2025] EWCOP 4 T3 Discussion of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and the government’s announcement in October that the Liberty Protection Safeguards, provided for in the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019, would at last be introduced and that there would be a consultation on their implementation in 2026 The announcement that the Ministry of Justice is considering making the Court of Protection Procedural Rule Committee statutory - when a suitable legislative vehicle arises.