Mar 22, 2024 ‘Failure to remove’ claims and Article 3: SZR v Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council [2024] EWHC 598 (QB) By Sam Jacobs Sam Jacobs, Doughty Street Chambers; Anna Moore, Leigh Day Solicitors For claims concerning alleged failures by social services...
Jun 06, 2023 When does the management of behaviour become medical treatment? By Sophy Miles In Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v JS and others [2023] EWCOP 12 HHJ Burrows has given an important and strikingly...
Jan 30, 2023 Westminster's allocations scheme unlawful By Zia Nabi Khayyat and another v Westminster City Council [2023] EWHC 30 (Admin) Summary A local housing authority is entitled to have a policy...
Oct 18, 2022 Remarks by Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC at the London Vigil marking 5 years since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, 16 October 2022 By Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC Good evening from London, where we gather tonight to pay tribute to Daphne Caruana Galizia and honour her memory, and to stand in...
Feb 10, 2022 Judicial Visits to P- New Guidance By Sophy Miles Hayden J has today issued new guidance on judicial visits to P, supplementing that of Charles J in 2016. You can read the new guidance...
Jan 04, 2022 Reducing mental health detention of people with autism and/or learning disabilities By Oliver Lewis On New Year's Day, the Sunday Times featured the story of 'A', a 24-year-old man with learning disabilities and autism who has been...
Nov 24, 2021 Capacity, sex and consent – the Supreme Court decision in Re JB By Mary-Rachel McCabe The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in A Local Authority v JB (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) [2021] UKSC...
Jul 13, 2021 Putting MWRF in its corner By Adam Straw KC In R (SC and others) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2021] UKSC 26 the Supreme Court decided that legislation which limited...
Feb 24, 2021 Capacity and sexual relations: Fallout from Re JB By Sophy Miles In a judgment handed down on 23 February, Cobb J concluded that a young woman known as HD lacked capacity to engage in sexual relations ....
Jan 13, 2021 Ripping up the Mental Health Act- The journey continues By Sophy Miles “Reforming the Mental Health Act” was presented to Parliament on 13 January 2021, and is the latest step in the process of mental health...
Jan 12, 2021 Remote justice and Tribunal case management By Sophy Miles In GL v Elysium Healthcare Upper Tribunal Judge Kate Markus has provided a helpful reminder of the importance of maintaining standards of...
Jun 11, 2020 Capacity, sexual relations and consent- the latest from the Court of Appeal By Sophy Miles Lord Justice Baker has handed down judgment in the appeal against judgment of Mrs Justice Roberts in A Local Authority v JB. The issue...