17 May 2018 New Network for Community Care & Child Rights Lawyers Launched By Angela Patrick Doughty Street Chambers was delighted to host last night's launch of the Network for Community Care Law for Children and Young People.An...
01 May 2018 Making the Mental Heath Act work better for everyone? A summary of the interim report. By Sophy Miles Sir Simon Wessley’s review of the Mental Health Act (MHA) has published its first substantive report. As Sir Simon points out, the...
27 Apr 2018 Cap on social care budgets unlawful By Zia Nabi In an important determination of wide ranging application, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has upheld a complaint against...
23 Mar 2018 Liberty Protection Safeguards- the Government responds By Sophy Miles The long and slow road to reform of the Deprivation of Liberty safeguards continues with the Government 's formal response to the Law...
15 Mar 2018 Section 11 Children Act 2004 - the possibility of a defence... By Ben Chataway Davis v Hertfordshire County Council [2018] EWCA Civ 379 provides welcome confirmation that a failure by a local authority to have regard...
27 Feb 2018 Statutory Guidance on extending Personal Adviser support to care leavers up to the age of 25 By Sam Jacobs The Children and Social Work Act 2017 introduced a new duty on local authorities to provide Personal Adviser support to all care leavers...
20 Feb 2018 Rights held up "at the hospital door"? A missed "tipping point" for Article 2 and the right to health By Kate Beattie Rights held up "at the hospital door"? A missed "tipping point" for Article 2 and the right to health in the Lopes de Sousa Fernandes v...
05 Feb 2018 Immigration detention, mental illness and reasonable adjustments. By Sophy Miles In R (VC) v SSHD [2018] EWCA Civ 57The Court of Appeal has partially upheld the appeal of VC against the judgment of HHJ Seys Llewellyn...
02 Feb 2018 Strasbourg case: disabled student excluded from university education By Oliver Lewis This week the European Court of Human Rights delivered a judgment about an engineering student in Turkey who was excluded from his...
26 Jan 2018 Cloning: Human Rights, Human Dignity and International Governance By Gemma Hobcraft The announcement of the first non-human primate clones (genetically identical monkeys - macaques) called Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua - cloned...
25 Jan 2018 Accommodation out of borough By Zia Nabi Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman finds fault in the way that a homeless applicant was accommodated out of the borough even though...
23 Jan 2018 Access to justice for people with disabilities By Oliver Lewis The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has recently published a report on access to justice for people with disabilities. The 17-page...