Feb 27, 2017 Disability Rights, the UK and the UNCRPD: Unstable Foundations? By Angela Patrick As part of a series of posts on our Doughty Street Community Care Passle, on the UK and the UNCRPD, today Angela Patrick considers the...
Feb 27, 2017 Passle Series: Disability Rights, the UK and the UNCRPD: Unstable Foundations? By Angela Patrick In the second of a series of posts on the upcoming periodic review of the UK's compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons...
Feb 26, 2017 Government reported to be facing defeat over lack of protections for EU nationals in Brexit Bill By Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC Today's Telegraph is reporting that Theresa May is "facing a double defeat over the Brexit Bill" (shorthand for the European Union...
Feb 24, 2017 An end to legal limbo for age disputed young people in need of accommodation and support? By Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC This morning, the High Court has answered an important, previously undecided legal question: whether a local authority children's...
Feb 24, 2017 Passle Series: Disability rights in the UK under CRPD scrutiny By Kate Beattie Doughty Street's Community Care and Health Team brings you expert analysis on the state of disability rights in the UK, as the UK...
Feb 22, 2017 Ordinary residence and adult NRPF cases By Doughty Street Chambers There has still been surprisingly little litigation about the Care Act 2014. One issue that may well come up relates to ordinary...
Feb 09, 2017 Adolescents' rights in a digital age? UN CRC and Children's Commissioner call for digital citizenship and greater safeguards By Kate Beattie The rights of children during adolescence have been recognised in a new General Comment by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child,...
Feb 08, 2017 Adult Care Act Assessments: "Administration charge" plans dropped. By Angela Patrick Community Care reports that Northamptonshire Council has dropped plans to charge all self-funded adults £50 before conducting any...
Feb 08, 2017 Watering down parental consent in use of section 20 accommodation By Sam Jacobs The use by local authorities of the power under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 to accommodate and look after a child, rather than to...