Community Care Law Update
The seminar will consider:
Update on Community Care law:
- Recent legislative developments
- New guidance
- Recent case law
Interface between community care obligations and negligence claims for care and accommodation costs.
Claims by and against local authorities in respect of care and accommodation provided to negligence claimants.
Jenni Richards specializes in all aspects of public and administrative law, including community care, health, mental health and local government law. She acts for both claimants and defendants (including local and central government and NHS bodies). Jenni has been involved in a number of the leading cases in the field of community care/health including R v North and East Devon Health Authority ex p Coughlan (responsibilities for NHS continuing care), R v Manchester CC ex p Stennett (charging for after-care services under section 117 Mental Health Act) and R (Bernard) v LB Enfield (damages under the Human Rights Act 1998 for local authority\'s failure to discharge community care responsibilities). Cases from 2004 include R (Khan) v Oxfordshire County Council (inter-relationship between community care powers and sections 2 and 3 of Local Government Act 2000) and R (Goldsmith) v LB Wandsworth (challenge to local authority's decision to move claimant from care home to nursing home).
Kristina Stern has a broad based practice including healthcare disputes, public law, disciplinary proceedings, and contract disputes. She is a specialist in health care law (including professional regulation, clinical negligence, healthcare challenges, mental health and community care, best interests declarations), and government litigation. She has been involved in public inquiries, disciplinary proceedings and complaints cases. She has regularly appeared in the High Court and Court of Appeal in judicial review challenges. She has also recently been instructed on a number of cases on behalf of the new regulatory body, the Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professions. She has written and lectured extensively on healthcare law.
Date: Thursday 11th November 2004
Date Ends: Thursday 1st January 1970
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