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Children, Health care, Mental health | 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
Housing | 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.
Adult social care | 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
Housing | 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
Adult social care | 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
Mental health | 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
Education, Housing | 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
Court of Protection | Monday 31 July 2017
Applications before the court concerning the degree to which a person without capacity should be assisted in observing Islamic religious custom and practice in a supported care home
IH (Observance of Muslim Practice) [2017] EWCOP 9, 12 June 2017, Cobb J The first application was in respect of adherence to fasting during Ramadan and the second in respect of the trimming of IH’s axillary and pubic hair in accordance with Islamic cul
