Robert Sharp – Everyone has a right to my opinions

There is a sanctimonious strain in British society that likes to divide the citizenry into ‘working people’ on the one hand, and feckless spongers on the other. This is a form of the ‘us and them’ mentality that the populists love and the tabloids love...

Last month I began a pupillage at Field Court Chambers. It is a civil set with a strong Public Law team, and I am enjoying spending time in the Court of Protection and the Administrative Court. The power of the state over the individual, and the rights...

I’ve done another judgment summary for Family Law Week. I’m finding its a useful way to gain an understanding of an area of law,.
This time I’ve dealt with the snappily titled Re E (A Child – Application to Discharge Care Order – Failures of Local Authority) [2025] EWFC 223 (B)....

Over at Family Law Week, I have written two case summaries and a short legal analysis on the vexed issue of withdrawing care from seriously ill children.
In An NHS Foundation Trust -v- J [2025] EWHC 2247 (Fam), a child was born with catastophic brain damage after his mother suffered a cardiac arrest. The medical evidence was clear that it was not in the child’s best interests for him to stay on ventilation...