J v Bath and North East Somerset Council & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 478

In this case, the Court of Appeal (Sir Andrew McFarlane P, King LJ and Singh LJ) overturned the decision of Lieven J’s that a local authority, sharing Parental Responsibility by way of a Care Order, could consent to the de facto confinement and deprivation of a profoundly disabled fourteen-year-old boy.