Doughty Street Chambers was delighted to host last night's launch of the Network for Community Care Law for Children and Young People.An...

Sir Simon Wessley’s review of the Mental Health Act (MHA) has published its first substantive report.  As Sir Simon points out, the...

In an important determination of wide ranging application, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has upheld a complaint against...

The long and slow road to reform of the Deprivation of Liberty safeguards continues with the Government 's formal response to the Law...

Davis v Hertfordshire County Council [2018] EWCA Civ 379 provides welcome confirmation that a failure by a local authority to have regard...

The Children and Social Work Act 2017 introduced a new duty on local authorities to provide Personal Adviser support to all care leavers...

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...

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...

This week the European Court of Human Rights delivered a judgment about an engineering student in Turkey who was excluded from his...

The announcement of the first non-human primate clones (genetically identical monkeys - macaques) called Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua - cloned...

Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman finds fault in the way that a homeless applicant was accommodated out of the borough even though...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has recently published a report on access to justice for people with disabilities. The 17-page...