29 Jul, 2016 Parental blackmail or gatekeeping authorities? Children in need playing piggy in the middle By Dominic Preston We all know the difficulties of finding accommodation in the private sector. In R (Jalal) v Greenwich LBC [2016] EWHC 1848 a family...
29 Jul, 2016 Care leaver as "other status" under Article 14 ECHR By Daniel Clarke In YA v London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham [2016] EWHC 1850 (Admin) the Claimant was a care leaver who had a number of spent...
13 Jul, 2016 Asylum support rates not enough for children in need? By Jamie Burton KC Sometimes its not so much what it decides as what is says when it decides it that can make a Court of Appeal judgement significant. In R...
13 Jul, 2016 Shock news: councils cannot afford the Care Act 2014 By Jamie Burton KC It is perhaps unsurprising but important nonetheless. More adults needs care and support and councils have less money to pay for it. In...
10 Jul, 2016 Essential safeguards for use of covert medication By Sophy Miles In Re AG District Judge Bellamy has given Important guidance on the use of covert medication to an adult lacking capacity to consent to...
03 Jul, 2016 Individual funding requests and the exceptionality test By Kate Beattie The High Court has allowed a challenge to an individual funding refusal for a drug to treat a 17 year old girl suffering from narcolepsy...
02 Jul, 2016 Impact of austerity and legal aid cuts on economic, social and cultural rights. By Sophy Miles Practitioners will be interested to see the conclusions of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as to the UK's...