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22 May 2008
Issue: 7322 / Categories: Legal News , Local government , Public , Community care
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News

Disabled Facilities Grants (Maximum Amounts and Addit ional Purposes) (England) Order 2008 (SI 2008/1189) Commenced 22 May 2008. Prescribes £30,000 as the maximum amount of mandatory disabled facilities grant that a local housing authority can be required to pay. Specifies additional purposes for which an application for a grant must be approved, regarding facilitating access by the disabled occupant to and from a garden and for making the access to a garden safe for the disabled occupant.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Katten Muchin Rosenman—Charlotte Hill

Katten Muchin Rosenman—Charlotte Hill

Katten strengthens financial markets and funds group in London

Hugh James—Keith Cundall & Lee Hart

Hugh James—Keith Cundall & Lee Hart

Hugh James expands national Serious Injury team with two new Partners

HFW—Rémi Ducloyer

HFW—Rémi Ducloyer

HFW continues Paris office growth with public law Partner hire

NEWS
The Court of Appeal's decision in Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP has lifted months of uncertainty for Chartered Legal Executives while prompting a rethink of regulation and supervision
The assisted dying debate returns to Westminster as Lauren Edwards MP reintroduces legislation that stalled in the House of Lords last session despite clearing the Commons
A little-noticed provision of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 has fundamentally expanded corporate criminal liability
Artificial intelligence is transforming legal practice, but careless reliance on it is creating growing professional risks
The law offers cohabiting couples surprisingly greater protection after one partner dies than when they separate during life
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