‘What are the rules governing retrospective approval of gifts and payments for voluntary care? Simon Edwards, barrister at 39 Essex Chambers, discusses Re HH (attorney’s application for retrospective approval) [2018] EWCOP 13 which demonstrates the necessity for someone who has power of attorney to retain proper records of care payments.’
Family Law, 20th July 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A widower who is the sole carer of his four-year-old son has been forbidden to work and ordered to leave the country – even though the Home Office’s own lawyers advised them to drop the case.’
The Guardian, 16th July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A carer who guided the pen of a dying millionaire as he signed over almost half his fortune to her family has been stripped of her windfall by a judge.’
Daily Telegraph, 30th April 2018
Source: www.standard.co.uk
‘In Wright v Satellite Information Services Limited [2018] EWHC 812 (QB) the Defendant appealed against the decision of the trial judge, HHJ Pearce, who refused to make a finding of fundamental dishonesty within the meaning of section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015.
Zenith PI, 27th April 2018
Source: zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘A benefits cheat who claimed he had no use of his arms and legs conned the authorities for 15 years – until he was spotted walking around town pushing his wheelchair-bound wife.’
Daily Telegraph, 31st January 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The son of a 90-year-old woman who was stabbed in the neck by a carer with a previous assault conviction is calling for a change to criminal record checks.’
BBC News, 5th December 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court has held that legislation designed to limit the rights of Zambrano carers to claim certain types of social assistance, including assistance under Pt 7, Housing Act 1996, was lawful.’
Arden Chambers, 15th November 2017
Source: www.ardenchambers.com
‘The Supreme Court has this week rejected a claim that the denial of mainstream welfare and housing provision to a Zambrano carer and her child was unlawful.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th November 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Dozens of leading charities could face insolvency within weeks after the Government ruled they must pay millions of pounds in back payments to overnight carers.’
The Independent, 19th July 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Lawyers acting for mentally ill clients and dementia sufferers have been praised in surveys commissioned by the Legal Services Board (LSB) on the needs of vulnerable consumers, but some did find it hard to deal with solicitors.’
Legal Futures, 18th July 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board has today launched research into the experiences of consumers in vulnerable circumstances when they use legal service.’
Legal Services Board, 14th July 2017
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘A county council has defended a High Court challenge to its decisions to reduce a severely disabled man’s personal budget and revise his care and support plan.’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th February 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘More than 23,000 allegations of abuse by home care workers against elderly and vulnerable people were made in the last three years, yet just 15 people were prosecuted as a result, new figures show.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th February 2017
Source; www.telegraph.co.uk
‘In November 2016, the government commissioned a review of modern employment practices. It is being led by Matthew Taylor and will focus on what has become known as the “gig economy”. In this blog, we summarise our written evidence to that review. Our central plea was that our legislators provide certainty for all. In our view this can best be achieved by extending basic workers’ rights to all but the truly self-employed.’
Cloisters, 9th February 2017
Source: www.cloisters.com
‘A mother who killed a great-gradmother and left her own five-year-old daughter paralysed in a head-on horror crash has escaped jail.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th August 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A leading care provider has served notice on two North West councils over the “unacceptable” rates they are offering care workers.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th July 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Care Act 2014 has made little difference to the lives of some 5.4m unpaid carers, a review has found.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th July 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The mother of a boy who was born with brain injuries after medical staff failed to notice his slowing heartbeat during labour has said she hopes she can provide a better quality of life for her son after receiving £11m in a high court settlement with the NHS.’
The Guardian, 6th July 2016
source: www.guardian.co.uk
Staffordshire County Council v K and others [2016] EWCOP 27
‘An incapacitated adult (“K”), who had been severely injured in a road traffic accident, was awarded substantial damages in court proceedings which were used by his property and affairs deputy, a private trust corporation, to provide a specially adapted residence and to fund the regime of care and support provided by private sector providers. The local authority, having been informed of the arrangements for K’s care and the arrangements having been registered with the Care Quality Commission, applied to the Court of Protection for a welfare order under section 16 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The parties accepted that the arrangements constituted a deprivation of liberty satisfying two of three components of a deprivation of liberty within article 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, but the Secretary of State contended that the third component, namely the attribution of responsibility to the state, did not apply to the privately funded and arranged care regime (and to others in an equivalent position), so that the care regime could lawfully be put in place without a welfare order being made under the Act.’
WLR Daily, 25th May 2016
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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