Latest Updates
Adult social care, Health care, Migrant support | Thursday 17 December 2020
Social Welfare Update: Advance payments for NHS Treatment and Foreign Nationals – guidance changes
Blog by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (on the application of MP) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2020] EWCA Civ 1634
Adult social care, Health care | Thursday 17 December 2020
Social Welfare Update: Inherent jurisdiction in relation to vulnerable adults - Guidance on urgent applications
Blog by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. Mazhar v Birmingham Community Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust [2020] EWCA Civ 1377
Adult social care, Health care | Thursday 17 December 2020
Social Welfare Update: Court of Appeal held NICE was right to use the Highly Specialised Drug procedure to appraise a new drug for treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU)
Blog by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (on the application of Cotter (A Child)) v National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) [2020] EWCA Civ 1037
Welfare benefits | Thursday 17 December 2020
Social Welfare Update: Right to backdate benefit where claimant can no longer claim Housing Benefit after moving house to a Universal Credit full-service area
Blog by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Law Team. CP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC) [2020] UKUT 309 (AAC)
Children, Housing, Migrant support | Thursday 29 October 2020
Social Welfare Update: High Court quashes Children Act assessment carried out by Southwark Council
AA was represented by Nick Bano of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team, instructed by Morrison Spowart solicitors. R (AA) v Southwark LBC [2020] EWHC 2587 (Admin).
Housing, Mental health, Migrant support | Thursday 29 October 2020
Social Welfare Update: Humnyntskyi – Home Office policy on Schedule 10 declared unlawful
Blog by Ubah Dirie of the Garden Court Community Care Team on case R (Humnyntskyi) v SSHD [2020] EWHC 1912 (Admin).
Adult social care, Children, Health care | Thursday 29 October 2020
Social Welfare Update: The Care Act 2014 easements: where are we now?
Connor Johnson and Tessa Buchanan of the Garden Court Community Care Team have prepared this update on the application of the Care Act 2014 easements.
Adult social care, Migrant support | Thursday 23 April 2020
Social Welfare Update: How the Coronavirus Act affects migrants entitled to adult social care
Sophie Caseley and Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Community Care Team drafted this briefing on how the Coronavirus Act 2020 may affect adult migrants with care and support needs and migrant children leaving care.
