3/22/2024 10:59:34 AM ‘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...
6/6/2023 3:10:35 PM 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...
1/30/2023 2:28:10 PM 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...
10/18/2022 9:25:31 AM 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...
2/10/2022 6:05:42 PM 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...
1/4/2022 7:45:58 PM 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...
11/24/2021 10:20:40 AM 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...
7/13/2021 10:38:21 AM 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...
2/24/2021 1:51:54 PM 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 ....
1/13/2021 9:43:17 PM 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...
1/12/2021 4:56:36 PM 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...
6/11/2020 4:21:44 PM 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...