Yesterday's Daily Mail carried a piece by Carol Sarler about what it described as a "scandal, blighting the lives of thousands of...
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Children's Minister Edward Timpson last week announced that the Government will introduce a number of safeguards to ensure plans to allow...
Hammersmith and Fulham has become the first London local authority to exempt care leavers from council tax payments until they reach 25....
Re RD and other (Duties and Powers of Relevant Persons’ Representatives and section 39D IMCAs) [2016] EWCOP 49 Baker J has handed down...
The Law Commission has announced that the reform of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards ("DOLS") is to be delayed. The Law Commission...
The Court of Appeal in Re W (A Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 1140 has granted a highly unusual remedy, ordering that passages be excised from a...
Very commonly in community care cases, a challenge is issued against one decision only for the authority to make a fresh decision which...
I recently wrote a piece on procedural fairness in section 17 assessments where local authorities are drawing adverse inferences from...
Life is about to get even harder for persons without leave to remain in the UK. With effect from 1 December, sections 39 and 40 the...
On 9 November, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in R (Rutherford and others) v SSWP [2016] UKSC 58, on the discriminatory...
Today's Guardianreports that, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has raised serious concerns...
Since R (MN) v Hackney [2013] EWHC 1205 the drawing of adverse inferences from non-disclosure of information has been a frequent refrain...