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Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 9 August 2017

NHS in England has announced it will fund prescribing PrEP to reduce the risk of being infected with HIV from September

NHS England fought a court case against funding the prescription of PrEP, arguing responsibility for paying for it should fall to local authorities not the NHS. Following defeat in the Courts on 3 August 2017, NHS England announced it will fund the drug f

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 3 August 2017

Garden Court Chambers Housing Team respond to the consultation of Terms of Reference of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry

The response addresses the interim report, the second stage of the inquiry, the importance of the views of the residents and the structure and make up of the inquiry.

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 3 August 2017

Sir James Munby: The nation will have “blood on our hands” if an NHS bed cannot be found for a teenager with acute mental health issues

Re X (A Child) (No 3) [2017] EWHC 2036 (Fam), 3 August 2017

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 2 August 2017

Local Health Boards in Wales were wrong not to fund registered nurse in care home where care may involve provision of social care

R (on the application of Forge Care Homes Ltd and others) (Appellants) v Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and others (Respondents) [2017] UKSC 56 on appeal from [2016] EWCA Civ 26, 2 August 2017

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 2 August 2017

Intentional homelessness: unaware of a relevant fact

Jamila Afonso da Trindade v Hackney London Borough Council [2017] EWCA CA Civ 942, 6 July 2017

The appellant, T, was from the island of Sao Tomé off the west coast of central Africa. In February 2013, upon her sister’s suggestion, she gave up her tena

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 1 August 2017

Court of Appeal finds conditions of detention are not within the Tribunal’s jurisdiction

Djaba v West London Mental Health Trust & Anor [2017] EWCA Civ 436, 28 June 2017

The appeal concerned the narrow issue of whether the statutory tests within ss 72, 73 and 145 of the MHA required a "proportionality assessment" to be conducted, pursu

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 1 August 2017

Failure to apply the ‘well-being principle’ in the Care Act 2014

JF, R (on the application of JF acting through his mother and litigation friend KF) v The London Borough of Merton (Rev 1) [2017] EWHC 1519 (Admin), 30 June 2017

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 1 August 2017

Out of borough placements and the right to education

R (E) v Islington London Borough Council [2017] EWHC 1440 (Admin), 30 June 2017

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