‘There should be tight deadlines on all parties to an injury claim – solicitors, insurers and rehabilitation providers – to ensure that rehabilitation achieves as much as it can, according to one well-known rehabilitation case management company.’
Litigation Futures, 3rd February 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The extradition of British terror suspect Haroon Aswat to the United States was lawful, European Court of Human Rights judges have ruled.’
BBC News, 29th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A solicitor’s retainer is not rendered “impossible of performance” simply because a claimant loses mental capacity and cannot give instructions personally, the Court of Appeal ruled today.’
Litigation Futures, 27th January 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘An elderly man suffering from dementia was treated like a “prisoner” after social workers dispatched him to a nursing home against his and his family’s wishes without going through proper legal processes, a formal investigation has found.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina v Chinegwundoh [2014] EWCA Crim 2649; [2015] WLR (D) 18
‘A finding that a person under a disability had done the acts charged against him was not an acquittal and did not therefore give the court the power to make a restraining order under section 5A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.’
WLR Daily, 20th January 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The Court of Protection has castigated the actions of a County Council in depriving an old person of his liberty and dignity in their overreaction to reports that he might be subjected to financial exploitation. This, said the judge, amounted to punishing the victim for the acts of the perpetrators.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd January 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Judge says it is ‘hard to imagine a more depressing and inexcusable’ case than that of the WWII veteran taken from his home against his wishes by Essex council.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Authorities in England have pledged to bring an end to the practice of detaining people with mental health problems in police cells. The NHS, councils and police are now set to come up with plans for how they will achieve this, the government said.’
BBC News, 18th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A convicted murderer who stabbed to death a worker at a mental health unit has been sentenced to a whole life order.’
BBC News, 9th December 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The sister of a partially sighted man who killed himself after his benefits were cut is calling on the UK government to publish details of its review into his case, one of 60 internal investigations of suicides linked to benefit changes it has carried out since 2012.’
The Guardian, 11th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Desmond Rutledge and Zubier Yazdani consider the hurdles facing welfare benefit claimants seeking to use the Cart test.’
Garden Court Chambers, Blog, 6th January 2015
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
‘A killer who bludgeoned and stabbed a woman to death, then kept the location of her remains secret for 14 years, has been jailed.’
BBC News, 19th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Three landmark appeals being heard this week should clarify who is ‘vulnerable’ and entitled to priority rehousing by local authorities.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 16th December 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Teenagers experiencing mental health problems will no longer be detained in police cells as a “place of safety”.’
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BBC News, 18th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man with paranoid schizophrenia who killed both his parents in separate attacks was let down by mental health services in Liverpool, a report has concluded.’
The Independent, 16th December 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Expert will dispute lawyers have revealed that people hiding their dementia due to the stigma of mental illness is leading to a rise in the number of wills being disputed by friends and families and say that vulnerable people need more support to avoid being taken advantage of.’
Legal Futures, 16th December 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Mentally ill teenagers will no longer be taken to police stations and detained in cells under reforms to be announced by the home secretary, Theresa May, this week.’
The Guardian, 15th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Department for Work and Pensions has been urged by mental health and disability charities to publish its secret investigations into suicides that may have some link to benefit changes, following revelations that it has carried out internal reviews into 60 such cases.’
The Guardian, 14th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The head of the Metropolitan Police has warned that large cuts to police budgets and other services will put public safety at risk.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th December 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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