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07 June 2012
Issue: 7517 / Categories: Case law , Law reports , In Court
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Social security—Services for sick and disabled persons—Assessment of needs of sick and disabled persons

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R (on the application of KM) (by his mother and litigation friend) v Cambridgeshire County Council [2012] UKSC 23, [2012] All ER (D) 254 (May)

Supreme Court, Lord Phillips P, Lord Walker, Lady Hale, Lord Brown, Lord Kerr, Lord Dyson and Lord Wilson SCJJ, 31 May 2012

The Supreme Court has considered the requirements imposed on local authorities considering the provision of any of the matters listed in s 2 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970.

Ian Wise QC, Stephen Broach, Ben Silverstone (instructed by Scott-Moncrieff & Associates LLP) for the claimant. J Richard McManus QC, Jonathan Auburn, Benjamin Tankel (instructed by Cambridgeshire County Council Legal Services) for the authority. Richard Gordon QC and Victoria Wakefield (instructed by Irwin Mitchell LLP) for the National Autistic Society, the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, SENSE and the Royal National Institute of Blind People as interveners. Nathalie Lieven QC and Tim Buley (instructed by the Department of Work and Pensions/Department of Health Legal Services) for

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