3/9/2023 9:53:00 AM 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...
5/17/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...
5/1/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...
4/27/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...
3/23/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...
3/15/2018 12:00:00 AM Section 11 Children Act 2004 - the possibility of a defence... By Doughty Street Chambers Davis v Hertfordshire County Council [2018] EWCA Civ 379 provides welcome confirmation that a failure by a local authority to have regard...
2/27/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...
2/20/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...
2/5/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...
2/2/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...
1/26/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...
1/25/2018 12:00:00 AM 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...