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18 July 2019
Categories: Legal News , Community care , Legal aid focus
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Community care: staying up-to-date

The seventh edition of Community Care and the Law has been published by Legal Action Group. 

Its author, Luke Clements, is the Cerebra Professor of Law at Leeds University, and a solicitor with Scott-Moncrieff & Associates. The book provides comprehensive coverage of local authority duties and powers, including assessments, ordinary residence, care and support services, housing, safeguarding and asylum seeker rights. It also includes a remedies chapter featuring a step-by-step guide to complaints and judicial review procedures, and has been fully updated to cover new NHS guidance and General Data Protection Regulation considerations.

The print and e-book editions can both be purchased here

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes

NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
The legal profession is undergoing a fundamental shift from selling services to creating technology-enabled products, according to Professor Luke Mason, Head of School of Law at Regent's University London
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