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...
Jul 07, 2023 Maguire, Detention, and Article 2 Inquests By Cian Murphy Maguire [2023] UKSC 20 is the most recent, and highest, authority on the engagement of Article 2 ECHR in inquests. The Supreme Court’s...
Jun 19, 2023 What AB v Worcestershire CC Does and Doesn’t Mean for Victims By Cian Murphy The Court of Appeal’s recent decision in AB v Worcestershire County Council [2023] EWCA Civ 529 reaffirmed a basic principle of law on...
Mar 09, 2023 Community Care Law Reports - latest cases By Stephen Cragg KC Stephen Cragg KC, general editor of the Community Care Law Reports (CCLR), reviews the six cases featured in the March 2023 issue. CCLR...
Jul 25, 2022 Recasting age assessments: a return to form? Case comment on R (HAM) v Brent LBC By Donnchadh Greene Introduction This article will provide a brief summary and comment on the recent decision of Mr Justice Swift in R (HAM) v Brent LBC...
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...
Jul 29, 2020 "Slow, inconsistent and, at times, negligent" By Oliver Lewis Today, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee published a highly critical report on "Readying the NHS and social care for the...
Jun 07, 2020 Masks confusion By Oliver Lewis What are the implications for care homes and home care in the UK of the new WHO guidance on masks? On Friday 5 June 2020, the World...
Jun 01, 2020 The government has failed care home residents By Oliver Lewis This piece analyses the UK government's performance against ten policy objectives published by WHO Europe. It seeks to shed light on why...
Apr 21, 2020 The UK Government's guidance on combating coronavirus in care homes is inconsistent with WHO standards By Oliver Lewis Submission to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into the human rights implications of the Government’s...
Mar 29, 2020 The Coronavirus Act 2020: a (very) brief overview By Mary-Rachel McCabe The Coronavirus Act 2020 was given royal assent by the Queen on 25 March 2020, and so it is now on our statute books. The 329-page...
Mar 22, 2020 The Coronavirus Bill and Adult Social Care By Mary-Rachel McCabe Jamie Burton KC Update 29 March 2020: This post relates to the Coronavirus Bill 2020. For more on the Coronavirus Act 2020, and when the below provisions...