Key legal question
Whether the appeal against the justice of peace decision was filed in time under the adult-protection appeal rules.
Extracted holding
The appeal was filed after the 30-day period had expired and is therefore inadmissible.
Extracted reasoning
The challenged decision was deemed served on 2016-03-22 because the registered mail was not collected. Since the decision expressly stated that deadlines were not suspended during the Easter period, the appeal period ran from 2016-03-23 to 2016-04-21. The appeal lodged on 2016-04-26 was manifestly late.