What is the Court of Protection and what does it do?
If a person suffers with mental capacity issues, they may be unable to make decisions for themselves. The role of the Court of Protection is to make decisions on their behalf, or to ‘deputise’ someone else to do so. They will decide what is in the individual’s best interests in every case.
Loss of capacity is not always easy to determine, and capacity can fluctuate with certain medical issues. The legal test to measure a person’s understanding may differ, depending on the issue at hand.