header-logo header-logo

Community care

Subscribe

Health and Social Care Bill

News In Brief

The yo-yo provison of 50% remission for prisoners in Northern Ireland should be reconsidered, argues Rosemary Craig

Does current legislation do enough to protect the rights of the UK's millions of unpaid carers? asks Rona Epstein

SLIPPERY FLOORS >>
OMBUDSMAN Decisions >>
VULNERABLE ASYLUM SEEKERS >>

PAYING FOR LONG TERM CARE
HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRIVATE CARE HOMES
PROTECTING VULNERABLE ADULTS

Assessment disputes
UNLAWFUL FAILED ASYLUM SEEKERS
CONTINUING CARE COMPENSATION SCHEME
Mental capacity act 2005

Fee hikes for settlement applications and required tests for applicants will have a "disproportionate impact" on poor and excluded groups, a campaign group is warning.

The House of Lords was this week pondering whether or not the Human Rights Act 1998 should be applied in the case of an 83-year-old Alzheimer’s patient threatened with eviction from her private care home.

Legislating for Sarah's Law is unnecessary and will not make our children any safer, says Alisdair Gillespie

Show
10
Results
Results
10
Results

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Partner joinscorporate and finance practice in British Virgin Islands

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Firm strengthens children department with adoption and surrogacy expert

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Media and technology expert joins employment team as partner in Cambridge

NEWS
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
back-to-top-scroll