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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

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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