Certain young adults are entitled to continued support and, sometimes, accommodation from local authority children’s services. Colloquially, they are referred to as ‘care leavers’. In reality, it is by and large the group known as ‘former relevant children’ who are owed the widest range of powers and duties by local authority social services. The term […]
On the 4th May 2010 Lord Justice Munby handed down judgment in the case of In the matter of A (dob 19.6.2001), A Local Authority v A and others [2010] EWHC 978 Fam. The issue in the case was in what circumstances could there be a deprivation of liberty (“DOL”), engaging the protection of Article […]
A number of relatively complex issues can arise in relation to “dowry payments” and, more generally, in relation to NHS funding for social services expenditure on former NHS patients. The expression “dowry payment” generally refers to the payments that an NHS body has agreed to pay in respect of the cost, to a social services […]
In ZO (Somalia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] UKSC 36, the Supreme Court held that Council Directive 2003/9/EC ("the Reception Directive") applied to asylum-seekers who purported to make a fresh asylum claim, after the final rejection of an earlier claim. Click here for the transcript. One of the consequences of that, […]
