Our social welfare pages provide bite-sized updates on recent case-law and policy, written by Garden Court barristers specialising in adult social care, children’s services, Court of Protection (health and welfare), housing and homelessness, and welfare benefits.
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 […]
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