Free Webinar – Navigating the overlap between health and social care- law and practice update

Understanding healthcare packages is vital for social care lawyers. These two complex areas of law, funding and service interact and overlap. They may each entitle individuals to particular kinds of service, but they are complex and can be difficult to litigate effectively.

This session will enable practitioners to develop their ability to provide a holistic service to clients who may have overlapping or complementary entitlements.

Attendees to this webinar will hear from experienced practitioners at Garden Court Chambers on the legal framework for healthcare packages tailored to social care lawyers. This will include practical guidance, best practice, legal analysis and a caselaw update.

Speakers

Amanda Weston KC, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers (Chair)
Amanda is a leading public and administrative law silk. She co-authors Judicial Review: A Practical Guide (Lexis Nexis) and is a member of the ‘A’ Panel of preferred Counsel who act for the Equality & Human Rights Commission. Amanda uses her expertise in mental capacity law and safeguarding practice to inform her approach to the representation of vulnerable adults and their litigation friends in a wide range of cases including access to legal aid and welfare benefits, damages claims for unlawful detention and breaches of the human rights and civil liberties of people with disabilities. She has particular experience in acting for people who may be neuro-diverse or on the autism spectrum and need support and adjustments to access justice.  She is adept in advising and representing in discrimination matters touching on mental capacity, disability and fair access to social care.

Tim Baldwin, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Tim is ranked in Chambers UK for Social Housing, Community Care, and Civil Liberties and Human Rights and is also identified as a leading junior in the Legal 500 for Social Housing, Court of Protection and Community Care, and Administrative Law and Human Rights. He is hugely experienced in all aspects of community care law, and is often instructed in complex cases which draw on experience in his other areas of practice, including housing cases where the tenant has mental health issues and specialist community care needs or in complex cases involving welfare benefits; complex cases concerning social care for adults or children challenges concerning disability and discrimination and advice and representation in cases involving persons who lack capacity in all jurisdictions.

Bethan Harris, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Bethan is an experienced barrister specialising in community care law, social housing, Court of Protection and related areas of public law. She was shortlisted for Court of Protection Barrister of the Year at the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2025, 2024 and 2023. Bethan’s work in community care includes assessments and service delivery issues such as direct payments; personal budgets, and eligibility criteria; accommodation issues; delivery of services to people who lack mental capacity; charging; children in need; carers’ assessments; Equality Act issues, disability adaptations, safeguarding and human rights duties of public bodies to vulnerable adults. She wrote and appears in the webinar, Care Act 2014 Part 1: What practitioners need to know, produced by Practical Law. She is an editor of the Community Care Law Reports.

Alex Temple, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers 
Alex is a barrister specialising in public law, discrimination and human rights. He has extensive experience in education, community care, policing and criminal records. Alex often advises children and vulnerable adults in cases arising from schools, colleges, exam boards, universities, integrated care boards and local and central government. Alex acts regularly in claims for judicial review, EHCP appeals and money claims. He has experience acting in proposed strategic litigation, and advises changemaking individuals and organisations.

Reserve your ticket
If you have booked an online ticket, we will send joining details to all those who have signed up on the day of the event. If you have not received the link by 2pm on Tuesday 19 May, and it is not in your junk inbox, please email webinars@gclaw.co.uk.