Abigail Holt
Call: 1993
Abigail has over 25 years of experience focusing mainly on accident, disease, health and medical-related issues. Her caseload concentrates on difficult tort/negligence cases: catastrophic injury and death; personal injury claims…
Home Office dispersal of asylum seekers in Bristol – failure of Secretary of State to lawfully apply her own policy
Thursday 1 Jul 2021
…accommodation in Gloucester. This case was part of 3 similar cases which had been brought at the same time with the two other cases settling. The Claimant was due to…
Stephen Simblet KC
Call: 1991 | Silk: 2020
Stephen is Joint Head of Garden Court Chambers. Stephen’s practice focuses on individual rights in four discrete areas. These are civil claims against the police and public authorities; inquests; mental…
Social Welfare Update: Secretary of State was correct as to the responsibility for funding accommodation at Transitional Rehabilitation Unit when determining ordinary residence under National Assistance Act 1948
Friday 30 Apr 2021
…met during the safeguarding process in February 2010 to April 2010 held by Lancashire, (b) Lancashire was therefore under a public law obligation at that time to carry out a…
Proposed return to sheltered accommodation did not breach Local Authority and CCG’s duties under s117 MHA 1983
Thursday 1 Jul 2021
…already living in a flat that met her needs and there was no suggestion the Claimant should be moved out of the flat around the time of the January 2020…
Social Welfare Update: High Court holds a patient was “ordinarily resident”, for the purposes of funding s 117 aftercare, in second local authority’s area immediately before second period of detention
Friday 30 Apr 2021
…that this is the end of such disputes, for example if the person discharged had only been in the community for a very short period of time in the second…
High Court finds local authority must provide suitable temporary accommodation to evicted family after breach of duty
Friday 8 Aug 2025
…Main Housing Duty and provide suitable temporary accommodation initially under section 188(1) Housing Act (HA) 1996 and then under section 193 HA 1996. Background The claimant, DK, is a victim…
High Court orders fresh assessment of 16-year-old’s needs after Discharge Care Programme Approach document under s117 MHA 1983 deemed unlawful
Tuesday 29 Jun 2021
…in good time. AK’s mother did not sign the DCPA, thus she could not have been consulted and provided with a copy in advance. There was no witness statement from…
Homeless Teenager takes Council to High Court for Unlawful Housing Policy
Monday 6 Sep 2021
…was hard as she rarely had a home. She said: “The last few years have been a struggle and there were times when mum took us to Heathrow to sleep…
When is a local authority’s charging policy for provision of social care in the community for severely disabled adults discriminatory?
Monday 24 Jun 2024
…the workplace must take their place for the time being along with the sacrifices demanded of all its citizens. That cannot fairly be regarded as disproportionate to the point where…
