For solicitors, chambers and legal teams
Learn the Court of Protection, from the inside out
This app was written by parents and families who have been through the Court of Protection — the assessments, the hearings, the bundles and the years in between. For a legal team, that is a rare thing: the whole process explained end to end, with the practical detail textbooks leave out and the client perspective you cannot get from case law alone.
A complete practice library
Every guide, checklist, wizard, template and bundle tool in the app, kept current as guidance changes.
Trainee-ready
Plain-English modules that get a paralegal, trainee or new fee-earner useful on a COP file quickly.
The family's view
Understand why families dig in, what reads badly to a judge, and how to settle more cases at the round table.
What the licence covers
The framework
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 principles applied in practice
- Decision-specific and time-specific capacity
- Best interests under s.4 and the weight given to P's wishes
- How Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland differ
Running the case
- COP1, COP3, COP9, COP24 and COP35 — what each is really for
- Litigation friends, the Official Solicitor and P's participation
- Directions, listing, urgent and out-of-hours applications
- Court bundles, chronologies and position statements
Deprivation of liberty
- DoLS, s.21A challenges and non-means-tested Legal Aid
- Community DoL and Re X streamlined applications
- Restraint, restrictions and unauthorised deprivation
Working with families
- Why families escalate, and how to de-escalate early
- Objective, evidence-led correspondence
- Transparency, reporting restrictions and the Open Justice COP Project
- Appeals, complaints and the ombudsman routes
Pricing
Everything a legal team needs to learn and run Court of Protection work — for solicitors, chambers, in-house and local authority teams.
- Every guide, wizard, bundle tool and template for up to 10 named users
- Practice modules: capacity, best interests, DoLS/s.21A, appeals and evidence
- Client-ready letters, position statements and COP24 witness statements
- Case-law and practice updates as the guidance changes
- Trainee and paralegal onboarding material in plain English
Discounted access for law students, paralegals, trainees and pupils — the same learning material as the team licence.
- All Court of Protection learning modules and templates
- Bundle builder and statement wizard for coursework and clinics
- Discounted from £199 team pricing — verified student or trainee number required
- Cancel any time
One seat on our online session "Supporting staff who are deputies or attorneys" — for employers and HR teams whose staff are juggling work with deputyship or attorneyship. Book as many seats as you need.
Student and trainee places are for one named individual and are checked against a student, paralegal, trainee or pupillage number after sign-up. Larger firms, universities and local authorities — email info@autizma.co.uk for a site licence or in-house training. Everything in this app stays free for families and for P, always.
Learning material only. It is not legal advice and does not replace your own research, supervision or professional judgement. See copyright and terms.