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Adult social care, Welfare benefits | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: Norfolk Council’s policy on charging for services unlawfully discriminated against severely disabled service-users and breached their Human Rights
Blog post by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (SH acting through her mother and litigation friend MH) v Norfolk CC [2020] EWHC 3436 (Admin): Griffiths J
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Adult social care | Friday 30 April 2021
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
Blog post by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (on the application of Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2021] EWHC 682 (Admin): Linden J
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Adult social care, Capacity, Court of Protection | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Damages of £143,000 for unlawful deprivation of liberty of incapacitous care home resident upheld
London Borough of Haringey v Emile [2020] County Court at Central London, 18 December 2020, HHJ Saggerson
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Capacity, Court of Protection | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Would receipt of a Covid-19 vaccine be in a mentally incapacitated person’s best interests when other treatments are proposed by a family member?
SD v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2021] EWCOP 14