Free Hybrid Seminar – 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 complimentary entitlements.

Attendees to this seminar 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.

There will be an opportunity for questions followed by food and drinks.

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.

Ollie Persey, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers 
Ollie is a public law and human rights barrister who is ranked as a leading junior in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 across his practice areas. Ollie won a Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (‘LALY’) Award in 2024 and was a finalist for a ‘Junior of the Year’ award at the Legal 500 Awards 2022. He is a member of the Equality & Human Rights Commission’s panel of preferred counsel. Ollie is the consultant editor of ‘Halsbury’s Laws on Judicial Review’ and a contributing author of the Legal Action Group textbooks, ‘Discrimination in Public Law’ and ‘Migrant Support Handbook’. His community care practice spans age assessments, asylum support, support for victims of trafficking,  welfare benefits, and health and social care. He is a contributing author of Legal Action Group’s ‘Migrant Support Handbook’. Ollie co-convenes Garden Court’s Community Care Team and the Deaf Legal Network.

Reserve your ticket
In-person tickets are limited by the venue’s capacity. After you have completed the form, we will be back in touch to confirm whether a place is available at the event

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.