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20 / Nov / 2020

Guidance provided by Mr Justice Poole on the proper approach for expert psychiatric reports on capacity in MCA cases

Posted by David Lock QC

13 / Nov / 2020

Supreme Court holds that suicide and unlawful killing verdicts in an Inquest require proof to a civil standard

Posted by Samantha Broadfoot QC and Hannah Gibbs

13 / Nov / 2020

Supreme Court ends legal challenges over lawfulness of using Avastin Off-label to treat NHS wet AMD patients

Posted by David Lock QC

8 / Oct / 2020

CQC prosecution for breach of the Duty of Candour

Posted by Samantha Broadfoot QC

2 / Jul / 2020

Decision making, mental capacity and undue influence: Do hard cases make bad – or least fuzzy edged – law?[1]

Posted by David Lock QC

17 / Jun / 2020

Guidance on approach to be taken in “rolling judicial review” claims and provision of interim support under the Care Act 2014

Posted by David Lock QC

11 / Jun / 2020

Consent to engage in sex: A Local Authority v JB is a sensible, perceptive and informed way forward on these difficult issues from the Court of Appeal

Posted by David Lock QC

9 / Jun / 2020

What is the right approach to a dispute resolution procedure between CCGs and local authorities over eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare?

Posted by David Lock QC

2 / Jun / 2020

Does a CCG placement in supported living run a coach and horses through the NHS placing rules?

Posted by David Lock QC

18 / Dec / 2018

Supreme Court gives strong hint that it may convene larger panel to reconsider Cheshire West tests for deprivation of liberty

Posted by David Lock QC

15 / Oct / 2018

NHS Continuing Healthcare: The primacy of the experts appointed to the Multi Disciplinary Team and the limited role for the CCG panel

Posted by David Lock QC

31 / Aug / 2018

Claimants denied costs in Judicial Review proceedings for failing to use the NHS Complaints Procedures

Posted by David Lock QC

16 / Aug / 2018

Court of Appeal grant permission in challenge to NHS ACO contract

Posted by Leon Glenister

24 / Jul / 2018

HPV vaccine set to be extended to boys, after pressure on equality grounds

Posted by Hannah Gibbs

19 / Jun / 2018

Appeal launched in challenge to NHS Accountable Care Organisation Contract

Posted by Leon Glenister

14 / Jun / 2018

Tory MPs publish a Private Members Bill to permit NHS co-funding

Posted by David Lock QC

25 / May / 2018

Richard Jackman v Wiltshire CCG: Using the Equality Act 2010 to secure effective treatment for learning disabled adults

Posted by David Lock QC

29 / Mar / 2018

Judge confirms that a CCG has no legal power to fund a continuing care patient for whom it had no statutory responsibility

Posted by David Lock QC

1 / Mar / 2018

Automatic suspension of healthcare contracts: the Lancashire Care case

Posted by James Neill

24 / Jan / 2018

Funding of NHS Continuing Healthcare

Posted by Robert Walton

24 / Jan / 2018

High Court Rules on New Bed Closure Test and Split Consultation

Posted by Samantha Broadfoot QC

8 / Dec / 2017

Administrative Court reserves judgment in Horton Hospital judicial review

Posted by Landmark Chambers

6 / Nov / 2017

Medical reviews of former police officers on injury pensions: Is there any duty to provide medical records?

Posted by David Lock QC

1 / Nov / 2017

The crisis in mental health services – does the fault lie with the NHS contracting system?

Posted by David Lock QC

27 / Oct / 2017

What can a local authority take into account in determining payment to care homes?

Posted by Leon Glenister

17 / Oct / 2017

Alistair Mills’s Paper on NHS Reconfiguration Cited in HC Library Briefing Paper

Posted by Alistair Mills

11 / Oct / 2017

Hayden J tests the limits of the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction: How far should the IJ be used to restrain unwise decisions made by those with capacity?

Posted by David Lock QC

29 / Sep / 2017

GP contracts for financial assistance – a reminder of the importance of precise drafting

Posted by Leon Glenister

25 / Sep / 2017

Out of the grounds: when has a patient ‘left hospital’ for the purposes of the aftercare duty in s117 MHA

Posted by Richard Clarke

13 / Sep / 2017

The winter pressures on A&E departments – are there legal consequences?

Posted by Hannah Gibbs

7 / Sep / 2017

New Bed Closure test – a potentially powerful tool

Posted by Samantha Broadfoot QC

6 / Sep / 2017

NHS England consultation on ceasing to commission “low value” treatments

Posted by David Lock QC

30 / Aug / 2017

Can Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships deliver real changes to the NHS?

Posted by David Lock QC

21 / Aug / 2017

Major changes to NHS charges for overseas visitors come into effect

Posted by David Lock QC

15 / Aug / 2017

NHS Contract Dispute results in finding that national tariff payable is payable for national tariff services despite “private” agreement to vary price

Posted by David Lock QC

8 / Aug / 2017

The division between NHS and local authority funding for nursing services in Care Homes: R (Forge Care Homes Ltd) v Cardiff and Vale University Health Board [2017] UKSC 56

Posted by Alistair Mills

8 / Aug / 2017

NHS England loses in court on a medical treatment case – yet again

Posted by David Lock QC

8 / Aug / 2017

Hospital closures and major health service changes: The role for local authorities

Posted by Hannah Gibbs

1 / Aug / 2017

The end of the compulsory requirement to apply to the Court of Protection in Persistent Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious State cases

Posted by David Lock QC

25 / Jul / 2017

Freeing up beds in hospitals – can a hospital patient be evicted?

Posted by Yaaser Vanderman

18 / Jul / 2017

The legal risks around amalgamating contracts to reduce A&E 4-hour breach fines

Posted by David Lock QC

11 / Jul / 2017

The “right” to NICE-recommended drugs – fact or fiction?

Posted by Hannah Gibbs

4 / Jul / 2017

Is the NHS facing a post-election wave of Judicial Reviews?

Posted by David Lock QC