Visiting care homes in lockdown
As we enter the third national lockdown announced on Monday 4 January 2021 there is a sense of déjà vu about life under the toughest restrictions and a real feeling of loss where some have had a taste of social…
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- While wrongful trading sleeps remember fortune favours the prepared
- Major Reform of the Mental Health Act
- New NHSX Template Data Sharing Agreement for Healthcare Providers
- Visiting care homes in lockdown
- Key Employment law decisions you may have missed in 2020
- How should employers prepare for the end of the Brexit transition period?
- Health and Care sector fines update
- Care in Lockdown 2
- Changes to IR35 legislation in April 2021
- LPS Update – Care Home Manager role on hold, full implementation of LPS by April 2022
- Extension of CJRS (furlough scheme) until March 2021
- Job Support Scheme
- HSE to commence spot checks of care homes
- Use of electronic forms under the Mental Health Act accelerated by the pandemic
- Right support, right care, right culture - CQC guidance for autism and learning disability
- DNACPR and planning for Covid-19
- Duty of candour - first prosecution brought by the CQC for breach
- New guidance on who pays and commissioning responsibility
- Alleging sexual motivation in regulatory/disciplinary proceedings – new High Court guidance
- Further important developments for commercial and residential possession actions
- Wills can now be legally witnessed virtually via video technology
- Changes to insolvency legislation further restrict landlords’ enforcement options
- Tenant protections extended and expanded
- Can employers fairly dismiss employees who do not return to the workplace?
- CQC Transitional Regulatory Approach
- CQC to resume inspections: have you reviewed your Covid-19 practices?
- New Caldicott principles to inform decisions and discussion about data sharing in the wake of the pandemic
- Covid-19 and Wills: Government confirms Wills can be witnessed by video link
- How to get the best out of a CQC inspection
- Covid-19 - care home visiting
- Liberty Protection Safeguards – new implementation target date announced
- Covid-19 guidance for creditors: How to cure cashflow crisis
- Schrems II - Landmark judgment impacts EU-US transfer of personal data
- What does the future hold for care homes and providers?
- The end of furlough and the announcement of a new bonus scheme
- Stamp Duty Land Tax: temporary reduced rates
- Briefing - Does the death of a vulnerable care home resident require an Article 2 inquest?
- A public inquiry into the coronavirus?
- How could Covid 19 affect my Tax Residency Status?
- Covid-19 - Workplace Testing and Monitoring
- CQC Inspections update
- Suppliers beware - the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill
- Steps to take following the death of a person working in social care
- Covid-19 Update: HMRC provide further time for second property purchasers to reclaim the higher rates of SDLT
- CQC Briefing: Is your service a closed culture?
- Appointing a Guardian for your minor children – What do you need to know?
- A new form of Inquest?
- Flexible furlough – what are the changes from 1 July 2020?
- COVID Challenges in Dentistry: Consent to Treatment
- Professional Indemnity for Healthcare Professionals
- Furlough and maternity leave - update from the government
- Update on Liberty Protection Safeguards
- NHS Dentistry – Resumption of service but not as usual
- New process to investigate Covid-19 deaths among health and care workers
- It wasn’t written down but it did happen
- Covid-19 - Commercial Property in the June quarter
- The Dos and Don’ts of Legal Advice Privilege following Civil Aviation Authority v R (on application of Jet2.com Limited)
- Covid-19 - Flexible Furlough - the details....
- Test and Trace – are you entitled to sick pay?
- Covid-19 - What next for primary dental care?
- Coroner's Inquests and investigations into Covid-19 deaths in the workplace.
- Mental Health Awareness Week – tips for employers
- Business interruption insurance during the coronavirus pandemic - High Court test case
- Interim Orders - is a dental care professional’s right to privacy less important than a doctor's?
- Holiday and the furlough scheme - what are the rules?
- Employment law podcast - returning to work
- Covid-19 and commercial contracts - report published by Distribution Law Network
- Covid-19 - What do employers need to know in the new 50 page guidance from the Government?
- Covid-19 - what are the risks for litigators in new working practices?
- Covid-19 - Care Act easements and suspension of local duties
- The impact on businesses and employers of the Prime Minister's latest announcement
- Podcast - redundancy process
- Are referees employees? The appeal
- CQC launches Emergency Support Framework
- Hospital bed possession during Covid-19
- Business as usual after lock down?
- What has been the impact of COVID-19 across the commercial property sector?
- Law Commission makes recommendations on the jurisdiction of Employment Tribunals
- Amending the Mental Health Act: Part 8 – what can we learn from the Coronavirus Act 2020?
- More protection coming for commercial tenants
- Sexual Safety through empowerment 1 - Findings
- Sexual Safety through empowerment 2 – Guidance for Providers
- A New Legal Duty for Clinicians
- General Medical Council - review of fitness to practise cases in the face of coronavirus
- Gross negligence manslaughter- Tolerating risk in the era of coronavirus
- Covid-19 - visiting care homes at end of life
- Online harms 3 - what do I do if I'm being harassed or bullied online?
- Landlord's remedies on default by an insolvent commercial tenant
- HSE guidance on how organisations should report coronavirus incidents
- Learning Disability and Autism services – recommendations for change
- Coronavirus Act 2020: Landlords' options on commercial tenants' insolvency
- Online Harms Part 2: What do I do if my privacy or confidence is breached online?
- Furlough and job retention scheme – further clarification from the government
- Changes to UK employment law from April 2020
- Covid19 - The Criminalisation of Ordinary Conduct in Extraordinary Times
- The Coronavirus Act 2020 and what it means for the social care sector - published by CMM
- COVID-19: Guidance on residential property transactions
- Inquests: The Coronavirus Act 2020 and the scrutiny dilemma
- Seeing the wood for the trees – more clarity on the ambit of vicarious liability
- Vicarious liability – A sigh of relief
- Covid-19 – Support available for UK businesses
- Covid-19 – Force majeure and property contract implications
- Covid-19 - Chief Coroner's Guidance on Post-Mortem Examinations during the Pandemic
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - further guidance from the Government
- Covid-19: Government provisions to protect Tenants and Landlords
- What could Covid-19 mean for Inquest Witnesses?
- Updated guidance on Inquests during Covid-19 crisis
- Court of Protection Practice in light of Covid-19
- Ethical principles to underpin decisions in adult social care
- The Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
- Covid-19 – FAQs from employees
- Covid-19. Cross sector assistance and protection for healthcare professionals
- COVID-19 guidance for residential care providers
- Shielding the most vulnerable living in care homes during the coronavirus outbreak
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Regulators’ statement to former healthcare professionals in response to the coronavirus crisis
- COVID-19 - Significant Proposed Mental Health Act Changes
- Amending the Mental Health Act: Part 7 - The Interface with the Mental Capacity Act
- COVID-19 – HR impact on businesses
- Amending the Mental Health Act: Part 6 - The Voluntary Patient
- Compensation for cancelled flights and COVID-19
- Coronavirus (Covid-19) and Commercial Contracts: Unable to perform contractual obligations? Force majeure clauses, frustration or variation could help
- Online Harms Part 1: The new regulatory framework requiring businesses to protect online users against harm
- Amending the Mental Health Act: Part 5 - Amendments to affect people with learning disabilities and/or autism?
- Challenging the media on coverage of a personal nature (Part 3)
- Challenging the media on coverage of a personal nature - Part 2
- Challenging the media on coverage of a personal nature - Part 1
- Amending the Mental Health Act: Part 4 - Reducing the use of CTOs
- ACAS Guidance - how and when should an NDA be used?
- Care homes fee update
- Amending the Mental Health Act: Part 3 - Abolishing the Nearest Relative
- Spotting a 'closed culture' - CQC inspections
- Webinar - IR35 employment status
- Amending the Mental Health Act: Part 2 - Statutory Care Plans
- Children's homes and healthcare: Registration issues
- The Paterson Inquiry - Do doctors face an increased prospect of exclusion from work?
- ‘Right to be heard’: Response to the consultation on learning disability and autism training for health and care staff (November 2019)
- Amending the Mental Health Act: Part 1 - Abolishing Hospital Managers
- Frontline health and care staff need to better understand the lives and needs of LGBT people
- Employment law developments on the horizon
- Extension of the Article 2 ECHR boundaries?
- Is veganism a protected characteristic?
- Government confirms commitment to reform of Mental Health Act
- 'Shadow Consultations' - why they are best avoided
- Police Investigations - the uncertainty of RUI
- Warnings given at fitness to practice investigations – should you challenge them?
- Should a company ban all workplace personal relationships?
- Whistleblowing dismissal and knowledge of the decision maker
- Can a Judge be a whistleblower?
- Richard Keogh vs Derby County Football Club - Has the club dismissed fairly?
- Notification of Deaths Regulations 2019 – A unified approach
- BMA’s Manifesto for Health: A Summary
- Are you facilitating your patients’ autonomy? Mordel v Royal Berkshire and the objective of informed consent
- Mandatory training on autism and learning disabilities for all health and social care staff
- Justice in Wales for the People of Wales: commission report
- National Assembly Committee on Mental Health: Policing should not be used as a substitute for mental health services
- Under caution: how to handle a disciplinary investigation
- CQC uses its enforcement powers to fine Trust for not complying with the Duty of Candour
- Fluctuating Capacity: Decisions on the Management of Diabetes
- Personal or Professional Misconduct? A shrinking role for MHPS
- World Mental Health Day - considerations for employers
- Storing cookies requires internet users’ active consent
- HIV Discrimination: Advice for employees and employers
- The Supreme Court’s Judgment on the Limits of the Exercise of Parental Responsibility
- All tied up in knots?
- Is an employee entitled to contractual redundancy payment and a statutory redundancy payment?
- The Right to be Forgotten - Rounds 2 and 3
- Truth and justice versus certainty and finality
- Is Vegetarianism a protected characteristic?
- Welsh Assembly Review: Petition to Make Mental Health Services More Accessible
- Key changes to CQC Factual Accuracy Check Guidance
- Clarity for Contracting Out
- Inheritance Act claims: Support for standstill agreements as Court of Appeal reverses Mostyn J’s Judgment in Cowan v Foreman
- Covert recording of meetings - is it gross misconduct?
- Dental Health Care must improve says CQC
- Can going through the menopause give rise to claims in discrimination?
- Appeal against F-tT decision confirming urgent cancellation order of Magistrates Court
- Care Home Prosecution - Deceased resident found trapped between bed and bed rails
- Dress codes: Key points for employers
- Medicines Management - What adult social care providers can do to improve
- CQC - Segregation may be breaching human rights
- IR35 - more guidance?
- Inquiries into CQC regulation
- Capacity to consent to sexual relations may be person specific test
- PI discount rate reset: A fair and balanced approach?
- Government confirms intended reforms of regulation for healthcare professionals
- The potential legal dangers of letting property using Airbnb
- CQC Prosecutions in Prison Healthcare
- Tenant Fees Act 2019 - what do I need to know?
- Egon Zehnder case
- Is it discriminatory to pay shared parental pay at a lower rate than maternity pay?
- Can you discriminate against someone because they have a progressive condition which could amount to a future disability?
- Healthcare briefing - CQC notices of proposal: how to respond
- CQC briefing - S.31 notices: A fast and increasing trend
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: The GMC & BAME healthcare professionals
- The Pitfalls of Annual Renewal for Dentists and DCPs
- Supreme Court decision handed down regarding the ‘serious harm’ threshold in defamation cases
- Reform of Units of Dentistry Activity system in Wales
- Independent Review of Gross Negligence Manslaughter - An Insider's Perspective
- Care Homes Briefing 194 - Care Home Prosecution Fines Update
- What is a GMC Rule 7 letter?
- Employers – are you keeping up with the record keeping requirements under the Working Time Regulations?
- The standard of proof at suicide inquests
- Mental health and the workplace
- The Court of Appeal considers what happens if a building is built with defects that cannot be remedied
- Mental health law briefing 258 - Restraint and restrictive practices
- Taking into account group assets to calculate a fine: a chink of light?
- Care homes briefing 193 - Key learnings for care providers from the Ombudsman's report on care complaints
- TUPE transfers and permanent health insurance schemes
- Increase in the Vento Bands for Injury to Feelings
- Healthcare briefing - High Court tests the 'great safety net' of inherent jurisdiction
- Do irregularities in a disciplinary process amount to a breach of the implied duty of trust?
- Care homes briefing 192 - Capacity: Social media and internet use
- Healthcare briefing - A call for change: a commissioner for older people?
- Can an employer breach the implied duty of trust and confidence by proceeding with a disciplinary investigation whilst there is an ongoing police investigation?
- Ending the blame game: new legislation introducing ‘no-fault divorce’
- Healthcare briefing - How to respond to police requests for patient records
- New RICS Professional Statement for service charges comes into effect on 1 April 2019 and now has teeth
- Whistleblowing and the importance of good investigations
- Mental health law briefing 257 - Community Treatment Orders and Deprivation of Liberty
- Mental health law briefing 256 - DoLS guidance / Conditional discharge
- Do rest breaks have to be for a continuous period of 20 minutes?
- Care homes briefing 191 - Care homes must urgently review fire safety - Serious breaches found by London Fire Brigade
- CQC briefing - CQC guidance: Sexuality and relationship needs of service users
- Welsh Assembly tackles mental health: 2019 update
- Imminent changes to employment law
- Canary Wharf v European Medicines Agency: Brexit is not a frustrating event
- Interim orders: Oversight with bite
- Health Board boundary change
- The Court of Appeal says: Discharge restrictive covenants first, then develop the land
- Start as you mean to continue: Preliminary meetings in the GDC fitness to practise process
- CQC issues fixed penalty notice for breach of duty of candour
- The deadline for filing and payment window of Stamp Duty Land Tax is changing on 1 March 2019
- Future Liabilities Scheme: GP indemnity plans for Wales
- A qualified success for the GMC in appeal against MPT decision
- EU Settlement Scheme - Who needs to apply and how?
- Perinatal mental health services: Where are we in Wales?
- GP partnership review
- National Sickie Day
- The Court of Appeal confirms that shop floor workers are comparable to workers in distribution depots
- Veganuary - Is being a vegan a protected characteristic?
- The positive impact of changes in the GDC fitness to practise process
- Allegations of dishonesty require context based assessment
- The Government launches consultation to increase protection for pregnant women and new parents returning to work
- Can a complaint of defamation give rise to a whistleblowing complaint?
- Cross-examination at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT)
- Can an Olympic cyclist be deemed an employee by receiving funding from a governing body?
- Mental health law briefing 255 - The case of AB: Inherent jurisdiction and the use of conditional discharge for patients with capacity
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - January 2019
- Committee on codification: Developments in devolution
- White coat crime: Corporate manslaughter in the GP practice
- Privacy rights and ‘citizen journalists’
- Mental health law briefing 254 - Final report of the independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983, December 2018
- Can parties make a valid Part 36 offer without disclosing the claimant’s clinical records?
- Registering land as a Town and Village Green - recent case in the Court of Appeal
- The SRA, sexual harrassment and misconduct
- An update on Owens v Owens - The difficulty in divorce
- CQC briefing - 'Sexual safety on mental health wards'
- Care homes briefing 190 - £300,000 fine for failure to protect service users from sexual harm
- Adjourning fitness to practise proceedings on health grounds – No culture of adjournment
- Khan v MNX: Wrongful birth and the limits of liability
- An important post-script
- Mental health law briefing 253 - The scope of maternal psychiatric claims: Primary or secondary victims?
- Care homes briefing 189 - CQC announces review of restraint, seclusion and segregation
- Care homes briefing 188 - New powers given to fine directors
- Care home briefing 187 - A new code for prosecutors
- Is an employer vicariously liable for the actions of its employees at an after work party?
- Nursing and Midwifery Council publishes its Fitness to Practise Annual Report
- Viagogo agrees to ‘overhaul’ its site following legal proceedings brought by the Competition and Markets Authority
- Care home briefing 186 - Care homes told to act now
- Care homes briefing 185 - Increased prosecution by the CQC?
- Zholia Alemi, the fake psychiatrist registered with the GMC, is jailed for fraud and theft
- Increasing transparency - Report on whistleblowing
- Subject access requests and health records
- Steps to avoid bullying and harassment in the workplace
- Care homes briefing 184 - CCTV in care homes
- Care homes briefing 185 - Recent CQC prosecutions
- Commercial property and VAT: What to consider
- A newly qualified doctor has faced an MPTS hearing after accepting a police caution for assault in a nightclub
- Owens v Owens: Solicitors reconsider their approach to 'behaviour' in divorce cases
- Budget 2018 - What does it mean for individuals?
- Advice for employers of EU nationals
- Can an individual be personally liable for the dismissal of a worker?
- Skipping a stage? New ruling by the Court of Session shines a light on the process the GDC is expected to follow
- Brexit: European Medicines Agency’s frustration
- Care homes briefing 183 - Competitions and Markets Authority advice on charging fees after death
- GMC to provide Human Factors training for fitness to practice investigators
- Are referees employees?
- Pregnancy and infant loss awareness month
- Supreme Court extends the reach of patient duty of care to reception staff
- Unexplained Wealth Orders - A presumption of guilt?
- 'Gay cake' row - Supreme Court finds that bakers did not discriminate
- World Mental Health Day
- When is a resignation not a resignation?
- ‘Persons unknown’ freezing orders – Extending the ‘procedural armoury’ of English courts
- Tesco Personal Finance Plc fined £16.4m by FCA for handling of high profile cyber-attack
- US Open final overshadowed by discrimination scandal
- The SDT and the standard of proof
- Criminal liability in the corporate boardroom - Tidal wave or trickle?
- Mental health law briefing 252 - Bringing proceedings before the First-Tier Tribunal: A question of capacity
- 'Rest assured, our communications are completely confidential' – and they really are
- Tax Journal: The trust registration service one year on
- Working during the commute: #WorkingFromTrain
- Honesty is the best policy, at least when it comes to a claim for victimisation!
- Care home briefing 182 - Refused: An application to increase the number of places for people with learning disabilities
- 'Sleep in' and pay?
- Menopausal leave – Are we almost there?
- Dr Bawa-Garba successful on appeal
- Divisional Court rules on evidential standard for Coroners in suicide cases
- The use of CCTV in care homes - The legal issues
- EU Settlement Scheme - Employer toolkit
- Care home briefing 181 - The withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration - Is court approval required?
- Care homes briefing 180 – Driving improvement: A CQC resource for adult social care providers
- Congratulations and Celebrations to Sir Cliff in High Court Privacy Success
- Sir Cliff’s victory: Why registrants with the General Dental Council should care
- Gig economy and discrimination?
- Lipstick and high heels are here to stay
- A guide to purchasing leasehold property
- Mental Health Law Briefing 251: Deprivation of liberty safeguard reforms - publication of bill
- Homeopathy and the NHS
- Subject access requests for mixed personal data
- The relevance of retirement and future risk in fitness to practise proceedings revisited
- GPhC publishes 'Guidance to ensure a safe and effective pharmacy team'
- Home Office excludes doctors and nurses from the cap on skilled worker visas
- Will your employees face red cards this summer?
- What first-time buyers need to know about conveyancing
- MEES now in force in relation to commercial property
- Practical tips for COFAs
- Pimlico Plumbers – The final chapter?
- GMC powers curtailed by Health Secretary
- Overhaul of gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare expected following the Williams Review
- Under pressure: Safely managing increased demand in emergency departments
- How would Brexit immigration controls affect social care?
- Taking the pulse of employment status in the 'gig economy'
- CJEU hands down an important decision on web tracking cookies
- HealthManagement.org - What will the GDPR mean for healthcare leaders?
- Healthcare briefing - The independent review of the Mental Health Act: An interim report
- New guidance on expedited decisions for coroners
- The stresses of the system: New proposals by the GMC on its fitness to practise procedure
- The CQC announces new information sharing agreements with prominent health insurers
- IR35 – The conundrum continues...
- High Court rejects trustees’ 'hopeless arguments' against disclosing information to trust beneficiaries
- Reflective learning: GMC submits this should not be considered in fitness to practise investigations
- 'Thoroughly dishonest' clinical negligence claimant risks imprisonment
- GDPR - What happens after 25 May?
- Time’s up? – New limitations on the publishing and disclosure of fitness to practise information
- Healthcare briefing - Assisted dying: The final choice
- Can I record my podiatrist during consultation?
- Sexual motivation? Sorry, I haven’t a clue.
- Privacy v Open Justice: Ongoing publication of judgments in civil proceedings
- CQC briefing: Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) services
- Mental health law briefing 250 - The interplay between covert medication and tribunal proceedings
- Social media - Defamation and regulation
- High Court rules Coroner’s ‘first come first served’ system for burials is unlawful
- CQC briefing - CQC report on private non-specialist acute hospital inspections
- #DeleteFacebook - Facebook's alleged breach of data privacy
- Care homes briefing 179 - Breaking the language barrier?
- The impact of Brexit on right to work checks
- The state of care in independent online primary health services
- Improving physical healthcare for people living with severe mental illness in primary care
- Why is the Windrush generation facing problems with their immigration status?
- Is it discriminatory to offer enhanced maternity pay but not shared parental pay?
- The Colonel closed
- The Faculty of General Dental Practice UK publishes new dementia guidance
- Shaggy dog stories - Allowing pets in leasehold properties
- Novichok nerve agent - Skripal and the Court of Protection
- Mental health law briefing 249 - Powers and limitations of the First Tier Tribunal (Health Education and Social Care Chamber)
- Extended powers for the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Their significance for healthcare providers
- Key changes in employment law from 1 April 2018
- Holiday pay – A round up
- Landmark fine of £2 million for Southern Health
- CQC briefing - CQC appeals to the First Tier Tribunal
- Government commitment to personal injury reform
- Court confirms discretion in health and safety sentencing guidelines
- Shared Parental Leave - Still not quite shared
- Tax and Private Client newsletter – Spring 2018
- CQC briefing - CQC Notices of Proposal increase
- GDPR - Privacy notices
- GDPR - Data subjects' rights
- Care homes briefing 178 - Guidance for witnesses attending court
- #MeToo - Sexual discrimination in the workplace
- Mental health law briefing 248 - Diplomatic immunity and the Mental Health Act
- It may just take a minute to protect a director
- Orange or Orange? The importance of trade mark protection
- Equal pay - The battle of the sexes continues
- CQC briefing - Updated guidance in respect of Regulation 5: Fit and Proper Persons: Directors
- YouTube star receives substantial damages in 'revenge porn' litigation
- If it’s not written down it didn’t happen… or did it?
- Care homes briefing 177 - Competition and Markets Authority
- CQC briefing - New CQC guidance on assessing the financial viability of providers applying for registration
- The principles of a fair investigation - Miller v Health Service Commissioner for England
- Conflicts of interest and the turnaround professional – The position in the light of VE Vagas Investors IV
- New compensation limits in force from 6 April 2018
- Drug errors cause appalling harm and deaths, says Hunt
- A move forward - Legal protection against criminal prosecution for pharmacists
- CQC briefing - Increasing prosecution of directors for health and safety offences
- No special treatment for litigants in person
- GDPR - Lawful grounds for processing data
- Unexplained wealth orders – Effective weapon or window dressing?
- When is the 'effective date of termination'?
- British citizenship - New application process
- Gender pay gap - Have you published your data?
- Healthcare briefing - Healthcare professional regulatory reform
- Care homes briefing 176 - Mental Capacity Act: Assistance in making decisions
- CQC briefing - Healthcare provider prosecutions by the HSE and CQC continue
- Data, disclosure and de-identification - Will proposed offences in the Data Protection Bill make criminals of us all?
- Care homes briefing 175 - CQC report offers a stark warning to Mental Health Review
- Ionising radiation regulatory changes for 2018 - The impact on dental practices
- Mental health law briefing 247 - A matter of belief: Assessment of evidence in the Mental Health Tribunal
- CQC briefing - CQC approach to corporate providers to change
- Increasing prosecution of directors for health and safety offences
- Mental health law briefing 246 - Law Society recommends significant changes to Mental Health Act regime
- FCA failing to clamp down on insider trading
- Primary care online - A revolution in modern society or a professional minefield?
- Healthcare briefing - Guidance on CANH withdrawal: Court of Protection
- Landmark judgment in support of testamentary freedom - Ilott v Blue Cross & Others
- No right to bring Inheritance Act claim on behalf of deceased claimant
- The perils of an outdated will
- Principle of mutual wills trumps widow’s 13 wills
- Carillion goes into liquidation - What happens now?
- Home Office publishes new Tier 2 guidance and Tier 5 temporary workers IA category
- GDPR for commercial organisations - Accountability
- GDPR for commercial organisations - Data Protection Officer (DPO)
- Radiohead deny bringing an action against Lana Del Ray for copyright infringement – but what is copyright?
- Tax Journal - Tax liability on the gift of (ungiven) objects
- Care homes briefing 174 - CQC report: The state of adult social care service 2014-2017
- Care homes briefing 173 - CMA report on the care home sector
- Challenge of the 180 day absence limit for Tier 1 immigrants to the UK
- Nowak v Data Protection Commissioner
- An introduction to GDPR for HR
- GDPR for HR - Privacy notices
- GDPR for HR - Consent
- GDPR for HR - Special categories of data
- GDPR for HR - Subject access requests
- GDPR for HR - Data breaches and consequences
- GDPR for HR - What should HR professionals do now?
- Deficient, incorrect or delayed treatment does not establish a breach of the substantive limb of Article 2 ECHR
- Promises made to EEA citizens
- Should voluntary overtime be included in the calculation for holiday pay?
- Claims of discrimination arising from professional disciplinary proceedings
- Medical examiners - A waiting game
- Morrisons data leak: Supermarket liable for data breach by disgruntled staff member
- Court of Appeal declares exclusion of fatal accident bereavement award to cohabitees incompatible with ECHR
- Healthcare briefing - Damages for breach of Article 8 rights
- Unlawful obtaining of personal data - A warning for healthcare professionals
- Mental health law briefing 245 - Teen Bournewood: All change
- Healthcare briefing - How to challenge a coroner’s ruling on the prevention of future deaths
- What to consider when your employer offers you a settlement agreement
- Are interim orders relevant to final sanction?
- Challenging the validity of a trade mark: Caspian Pizza v Shah
- SRA – Change in the law on dishonesty
- Is it unfair to dismiss an employee if they fail to present evidence of their right to work?
- Post-Ivey dishonesty cases - A scoreless draw
- Data protection: How will UK businesses’ obligations be affected by the EU General Data Protection Regulation?
- Dismissal for historic misdemeanours - Is the Football Association guilty of doing sweet FA?
- Uber – The final chapter?
- Dr Michalak and the GMC - Individuals can bring discrimination claims against their regulators in the Employment Tribunal
- UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery
- SRA warning notice: Holiday sickness claims
- Brexit update - UK settlement system for EU citizens
- GP partnership disputes - Cheema v Jones
- Will Brexit mean fewer nurses and midwives in the UK?
- Mental health law briefing 244 - Guidance to changes made by the Policing and Crime Act to police powers and places of safety provisions in the Mental Health Act
- Does the Home Office's current attitude towards the Ankara Agreement signal its extinction?
- Corporate crime update - What your business needs to know
- Modern Slavery Act - Reforming the referral system for victims
- Ghosh-busters! Supreme Court overhauls criminal test for dishonesty
- Modern Slavery Act - Updated guidance on reporting for businesses
- Care home briefing 172 – CQC prosecution of Southern Health NHS Trust
- GMC v Stone 2017 – applying sanctions guidance and giving appropriate weight to mitigation
- EU update - RadcliffesLeBrasseur attends London Chamber of Commerce and Industry breakfast meeting with the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
- Care home briefing 171 - Criminal liability for healthcare providers accepting informal payment arrangements for care?
- GDPR in the health and social care sector
- Mental health law briefing 243 - Does the section 117 aftercare duty trigger whilst a patient is on leave granted under s17?
- Establishing a beneficial interest in property
- Healthcare briefing - Withdrawing CANH without an application to the Court of Protection
- Care home briefing 170 - Fire, fire! The latest care home prosecution
- Healthcare briefing - CQC and Section 64 requests
- Healthcare briefing - CQC prosecutions: New guidance relevant to guilty pleas
- Buying a business: The legal process - Major documents
- Birch v Birch – Flexibility v finality
- Increase to bands of compensation for injury to feeling awards
- Is suspension a breach of trust and confidence?
- Home Office update: Brexit negotiations
- Charities and the general data protection regulation (GDPR)
- Healthcare briefing - CQC prosecutions: Case reports
- Can a 'joke' constitute harassment?
- Buying a business: The legal process - After completion
- Brexit and Northern Ireland - How will it work?
- Brexit and Northern Ireland - Economics and customs issues
- Mental health law briefing 242 - First Tier Tribunal guidance note: The duties of the responsible authority and enforcement
- Buying a business: The legal process - Share/business purchase agreement
- Healthcare briefing - CQC interviews under caution
- Brexit and Northern Ireland - Preserving the Common Travel Area
- Solicitors Journal - Wildcard regulators
- Brexit and Northern Ireland - The impact of Brexit
- Brexit and Northern Ireland - Recent political events in Northern Ireland
- Brexit and Northern Ireland - Current immigration law between the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK
- Buying a business: The legal process - Due diligence
- Healthcare briefing - CQC prosecutions: an increasing phenomena?
- Brexit and Northern Ireland - A brief history
- Voluntary overtime and holiday pay
- Buying a business: The legal process
- Healthcare briefing - Factual accuracy responses to draft CQC reports - New Section C
- Buying a business: Getting started
- Amend flawed Mental Health Act, says think tank
- Buying a business: Shares or assets?
- Employment Tribunal fees - Important update
- GDC - The scope of Rule 9 review
- Healthcare briefing - S.31 notices: Beware the fast track
- Healthcare briefing - Responding to Notices of Proposal (NOPs)
- Brexit, the Human Rights Act and disciplinary proceedings
- Minimum income rule - A welcome change to the Immigration Rules
- Buying a business: Why buy?
- Healthcare briefing - CQC and rating appeals
- Four tips for charities on handling personal data
- London Business 1000 - The issues affecting London's business community
- Brexit impact on immigration applications for EU citizens
- Whistleblowing - Background to press coverage
- What does 'public interest' actually mean in whistleblowing cases?
- CQC seminar in Leeds
- The Taylor Review
- UK-US immigration: Planning, preparation and pitfalls
- Care home briefing 169 - Latest care home abuse prosecution: Atlas Project Team
- Financial Dispute Resolution Hearings
- The Queen's Speech and employment law
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - Summer 2017
- Shorts v dresses: Are summer dress codes putting male employees at a disadvantage?
- Selling a business: Share/business purchase agreement
- Selling a business: Major documents and reducing your risks
- Selling a business: Due diligence
- Can redundancy which arises from absence amount to disability discrimination?
- Selling a business: The legal process
- Selling a business: Tax issues
- Selling a business: Shares or assets?
- Selling a business: Why sell?
- Selling a business: Getting started
- How to handle the residence nil rate band
- Trends in GMC appeals against fitness to practise decisions
- Data protection and privacy: How should SMEs prepare for GDPR?
- Impairment and sanction in public interest cases
- Care home briefing 168 - Visiting in care homes
- Early Conciliation and extension of time limits
- Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service launch: A further step in the harmonisation of healthcare regulators
- Greater protection for whistleblowers?
- Mental health: Key issues for HR and line managers
- Drafting divorce petitions and the impact of Owens v Owens
- To what extent can employees’ social media use be regulated and how can the risks to employers be mitigated?
- Mental health law briefing 241 - Authorising the detention of children
- Are workers entitled to pay while sleeping?
- Solicitors Journal - Is there a better way than intervention?
- Mental health law briefing 240 - Can the terms of a conditional discharge by a tribunal or a CTO amount to a deprivation of liberty?
- Indirect discrimination - A welcome clarification?
- The GMC's confidentiality guidance
- Confidentiality: Good practice in handling patient information (GMC 2017)
- Finance Bill 2017 - Dropped by Select Committee
- Pending employment legislation and the impact of the general election 2017
- Immigration Skills Charge now in force
- Government’s webpage updated for EU nationals in the UK. Reassured? Possibly not...
- Sponsored workers at third party premises
- Residence Nil Rate Band (RNRB) - Additional points to remember
- Shared parental leave - your questions answered
- Relocating within the UK as a single parent
- Home Office changes to immigration and nationality charges
- Private Dentistry (Wales) Regulations 2017
- Requirement to hold an inquest: DoLS no longer classified as state detention from 3 April 2017
- Care home briefing 167 - Is the Court of Protection's role limited by the availability of care options?
- Residence documents: To apply or not to apply
- Care home briefing 166 - A summary: Top ups for local authority and CCG fees
- Law Commission report: Mental capacity and deprivation of liberty
- Mental health law briefing 239 - Anorexia nervosa: The Court again authorises discharge rather than treatment
- Grounds for arrest and search
- Supreme Court unanimously allows the charities’ appeal in Ilott v The Blue Cross & Others
- Home Office changes to the Immigration Rules
- Apprenticeships – good or bad?
- Barrister escapes serious professional misconduct judgment due to medical condition
- Landlords discriminating against tenants under the ‘right to rent’ scheme
- British Gas v Lock: The final chapter?
- Key points from the Spring Budget 2017
- The Supreme Court's ruling is not all gloom for families
- Solicitors Journal - Planning for the unexpected
- Inquests in deprivation of liberty cases
- Immigration news round up and reminders
- Digital assets in wills
- The Prime Minister’s white paper on exiting the EU and the new proposed relationship
- Divorce and reasonable needs
- Care home briefing 165 - CQC prosecution: Failure to provide safe care and treatment
- Residence Nil Rate Band - Where are we?
- Brexit edging closer
- An employer’s refusal of holiday to allow an employee to attend religious festivals was not indirect discrimination
- GMC report: Medical professionalism matters
- Law Commission review on Criminal Record Disclosure
- Case review: Kamberova v NMC
- Case review: Deprivation of Liberty
- Secretary of State granted power to cap exit payments for public sector workers
- The duty to make reasonable adjustments applies to service providers
- Can gross negligence constitute gross misconduct?
- Can a COT3 agreement prevent an employee bringing a subsequent claim?
- Non-dom reforms: April 2017
- Changes to process for UK settlement visa applicants in Australia
- Care home briefing 164 - When is it necessary to apply to the Court for a review of a DoLS authorisation?
- Rolls-Royce agrees to settle bribery and corruption claims in largest ever Deferred Prosecution Agreement
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - 2017
- Key points from the Professional Standards Authority’s annual review of the General Dental Council
- Gig economy: Bicycle courier entitled to holiday pay
- GDPR: Changes to the data protection regime
- What to expect in 2017
- Business immigration update
- Tier 2 sponsors – Criminal record certificates required for health, social care and education workers
- The GDC’s power to review warnings issued to registrants
- Guidance for trainees on recording reflections
- Surgeon wins appeal against conviction of gross negligence manslaughter
- Case review: Habib Khan v General Pharmaceutical Council
- Mental health law briefing 238 - CQC Report: Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2015/16
- UK-Irish relations and Brexit: EU Select Committee inquiry
- Gender pay gap regulations
- Can a manifestly inappropriate final written warning be used to dismiss an employee at a subsequent hearing?
- The constitutional referendum in Italy
- Is the employer liable for an assault by one of its employees?
- Can a failure to allow for a rest break amount to a ‘refusal’ even if there has not been a request for such a break?
- Mental health law briefing 237 – Seclusion and long term segregation in practice
- Proposed increases to statutory pay
- Frequently Asked Questions: The Government's response to Brexit
- Key points from the Autumn Statement 2016
- Mental health law briefing 236 - Highlights from the Annual Mental Health Conference 2016
- Care home briefing 163 - New guidance to ensure patients participate in Court of Protection cases
- Nationality census still required for children over 5 years old
- New English language requirement
- Care home briefing 162 - Banning relatives from care homes or termination of residence contracts
- Responsibility for triggering Article 50 handed to Parliament
- Important changes to immigration rules
- UK Visas and Immigration introduce a change to settlement visa application process in Russia
- Chief Coroner’s report: Assessing the service and recommending reform
- PSA awarded costs from the General Dental Council and dentist at appeal
- Uber drivers are classed as ‘workers’ rather than self-employed contractors
- Failure to pay enhanced shared parental pay may amount to indirect sex discrimination
- Brexit - how will it affect employment law?
- Do religious beliefs outweigh the law against discrimination in the supply of goods and services on grounds of sexual orientation?
- Important whistleblowing case delayed
- Mental health law briefing 235 - Hospital managers: Are you complying with paragraph 38.8 of The Code of Practice?
- Mental health law briefing 234 - What happens if hospital managers make a discharge decision in error?
- Care home briefing 161 - Latest prosecutions in the care home sector
- Is the protection of pay a reasonable adjustment for a disabled employee?
- Should football clubs register with the CQC?
- Tier 1 Entrepreneur Visa: Job taker or job maker?
- Short-term sub-lettings: holiday fun or a risky business?
- The ‘legitimate expectation of privacy’ and GMC expert reports
- Increase in the fees payable for immigration appeals - Access to justice no longer affordable
- Despite the ever increasing intricacy of the requirements, applications under Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) category remain appealing to overseas entrepreneurs
- The Government has announced that it will start consulting on caste discrimination, but is this really necessary?
- GDC fitness to practise rules amendment
- EU succession rules
- Care home briefing 160 - Guidance on care home closures
- Is a payment in lieu of notice (PILON) tax free?
- Gender pay gap
- Mental health law briefing 233 - CQC factual accuracy comments: No longer the end of the road
- Post-Brexit: Introducing the EU Citizens Resident in the United Kingdom (Right To Stay) Bill
- Case study: Allegations of VAT fraud by the HMRC
- Harassment in the workplace – preventing claims
- What is arbitration?
- Lasting powers of attorney for health, care and financial decisions
- Inquests are becoming increasingly adversarial: Fact v theory in the Coroner’s Court
- Case report: Dr Senthil Gopalakrishnan v GMC
- Revised GDC guidance on issuing warnings
- Guidance on preparation of investigation reports
- Can an agency worker bring a whistleblowing claim against the end user client?
- Are settlement negotiations undertaken under S111A Employment Rights Act (ERA) 1996 admissible in Employment Tribunal proceedings?
- When do solicitors fail to uphold the rule of law?
- Professionals and social media
- An employer’s guide to right to work checks
- CPS Victims’ Right to Review Scheme
- Care home briefing 159 - Serious untoward incidents: a lesson from Southern Health
- Does the ACAS code apply to all dismissals?
- Is the requirement to work long hours a provision, criterion or practice triggering the duty to make reasonable adjustments?
- First instance employment tribunal decisions
- Brexit and UK immigration
- Mental health law briefing 232 - Unlawful detention compensation for ASW error
- Does the abuse of migrant workers amount to race discrimination?
- Retention of title
- Requirements of the Charity Commission
- Bonus schemes: are they really discretionary?
- Warnings at the conclusion of GMC Fitness to Practise investigations
- Problems with family contributions towards the purchase of a family home on divorce/separation
- Digging deep: Issues with basement developments
- Does Article 6 afford a practitioner the right to comment on legal advice received by a Professional Disciplinary Tribunal?
- SRA and SDT's dispute over disciplinary powers
- The opening gambit: your communication strategy
- Care home briefing 158 - Law Commission interim statement about DoLS
- Mental health law briefing 231 - Law Commission interim statement
- Mental health law briefing 230 - Anorexia Nervosa: The court authorises discharge rather than treatment
- Religion or belief dismissal - fair because of marriage?
- Problems with family contributions towards the purchase of a family home on divorce or separation
- Injury to feelings for resting!
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - 2016
- Immigration Bill becomes law
- Immigration Act 2016
- Notes for landlords: Immigration Act 2016
- Do I have to declare my conviction/caution?
- The right to be forgotten
- The importance of first instance tribunals for healthcare professionals
- GMC publication: Huge benefits for adverse health cases
- Honesty is the best policy
- New powers given to the Charity Commission
- Care home briefing 157 - Administration of medicines in care homes
- Supreme Court reaffirms that prescriptive rights must be based on actual use
- Can an employee argue that the disciplinary warning was discriminatory on the grounds of promoting her religious beliefs at work?
- Solicitor's Journal - Solicitors left in limbo
- Can an employer have knowledge of an employee’s disability when occupational health advisers state that the claimant is not disabled?
- Illegal workers? How to dismiss fairly
- New case law on dilapidations
- Care home briefing 156 - Can the CQC demand that providers produce information to them?
- Cosmetic procedures - beware
- Ten key points for charities on commercial contracts
- Amendments to permitted development rights
- The role of a trustee
- The fitness to practise process: risks of non-engagement
- Ten year inheritance dispute to be determined in UK Supreme Court
- Guidance for landlords: UK Government’s 'right to rent' scheme
- Mental health law briefing 229 - The zone of parental control: Deprivation of Liberty update
- Increased protection of vulnerable people's estates during legal battles
- Can a complaint about working conditions amount to a disclosure under the whistleblowing legislation?
- Can an employer raise performance concerns whilst an employee is on sick leave?
- Changes to permitted development rights
- Childcare vouchers – remuneration or benefit?
- Lease assignments to guarantors have been confirmed to be void
- Immigration: Tier 2 changes announced by UK Government
- Court of Appeal judgment in the case of Dr Ewa Michalak
- High Court judgment - Professional Standards Authority v General Medical Council and Dr Igwilo
- Mental health law briefing 228 - Proposed amendments to Sections 135 and 136 Mental Health Act
- Further crackdown on illegal immigration
- The GMC's published response to fitness to practise proposals
- Solicitors Journal - Perceptions of misconduct
- Care home briefing 155 - Hospital deaths to be reviewed by second doctor
- Mental health law briefing 227 - Hospital deaths to be reviewed by a second doctor
- Key points from the Chancellor's speech
- GMC/MPTS Indicative Sanctions Guidance
- The SRA’s intervention process is not infallible
- New immigration and nationality fees to be introduced from 18 March 2016
- Annual increases on compensation limits
- Bribery Act: failing to prevent bribery can cost organisations dearly
- Modern Slavery Act
- Minimum income visa rules challenge in Supreme Court
- Outcome of the GMC’s consultation on publication of fitness to practise information
- Gender pay gap reporting - what do you need to do?
- Disability discrimination - are reasonable adjustments necessary?
- The importance of natural justice in employee disciplinary hearings
- A regulator must learn from its mistakes
- GDC Consultation
- Lifetime retention and disclosure of fitness to practise histories
- A guide to this year’s changes at the MPTS
- NHS health surcharge to be extended in April 2016
- Contracts for electronic health records (EHR)
- Buying or selling a dental practice
- Chief Coroner’s new guidance on pre-inquest review hearings
- Biometric residence permits and right to work checks
- Care home briefing 154 - Home guilty of corporate manslaughter but hospital prosecution collapses
- UK Government’s 'right to rent' scheme
- Care home briefing 153 - Crackdown on illegal immigration in the care sector
- Mental health law briefing 226 - Crackdown on illegal immigration and employment in the care sector
- UK takes further action to prevent forced labour
- Expansion of UK Registered Traveller service
- English language test for family members
- Employers to be charged £1,000 for employing skilled migrants
- Can you speak English please?
- Mental health law briefing 225 - CQC Code of Practice: Confidential personal information
- Hi, this is your employer. Can I look at your personal emails please?
- Care home briefing 152 - Memorandum of Understanding between coroners and the CQC
- Mental health law briefing 224 - Memorandum of Understanding between Coroners and the CQC
- Care homes - Memorandum of Understanding between Coroners and CQC
- DoLS - Where are we now?
- Mental health law briefing 223 - Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: Where are we now?
- Beneficial owners - from the shadows into the light
- Was Tom Hayes’ conviction a watershed moment for the Serious Fraud Office?
- Update on procedure
- Mental health law briefing 222 - The interaction between guardianship and DoLS
- Care home briefing 151 - How to handle personal data
- Discrimination claims can only be brought by an individual. True or false?
- Using client account money to shore up a solicitors’ practice - SRA v Barker and Newton
- Is caste a protected characteristic?
- Can victimisation by association be a valid claim?
- Does travelling to and from work count as working time?
- Care home briefing 150 - The use of CCTV in care homes: the legal issues
- Can employees on long-term sick leave transfer under a tupe transfer?
- Directors Duties and Liabilities – an outline
- Partnership agreements for medical practitioners
- Corporate Briefing - Buying a Business
- Corporate Briefing - Selling a Business
- Is your company looking for investors?
- Duty of Candour to be reviewed?
- A step too far? How much should HR managers influence disciplinary proceedings?
- New ill treatment or wilful neglect offence and care provider offence
- Article published by People Management Daily and HR-inform
- Fluent English to be a legal requirement for customer-facing public sector employees
- Historic derogatory comments on Facebook entitled employer to dismiss
- Consultation on tax treatment of termination payments
- Duty of Candour – Guidance from NMC and GMC
- Care home briefing 149 - Top ups and lifestyle charges
- Challenging judicial criticism
- Holiday pay - Tricky issues
- Care home briefing 148 - Consultation paper: Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty
- June Case Round Up
- Mental health law briefing 221 - Use of Section 17 leave for treatment of physical disorder
- The Zone of Parental Control – Deprivation of Liberty
- Is an employer obliged to pay for travel time?
- Insolvency: When is intervention necessary?
- Care home briefing 147 - Is an employee obliged to tell their employer of an allegation of sexual assault?
- Mental health law briefing 220 - Is an employee obliged to tell their employer of an allegation of sexual assault outside of their employment?
- Care home briefing 146 - CQC special measures
- Training for the Healthcare Sector
- Is an employer liable for discrimination if it asks a Muslim applicant to wear a shorter jilbab? No, not in this case
- Design Right and Infringement
- The pitfalls of internal corporate investigations
- Unlimited Fines for Breaches to the Data Protection Act 1998
- Defamation and the “Serious Harm” Threshold Test
- Relocation
- The SRA's fraud focus
- Whistleblowing: what is 'in the public interest'?
- Mental health law briefing 219 - Rejection of Local Authority claim that a 93 year old woman was ‘deprived of her liberty’
- With the Conservatives now in power what employment implications will this have for organisations?
- Should an employer put a disciplinary process on hold to deal with a grievance?
- The CQC Provides Information on Their Approach to the Duty of Candour
- What is Shared Parental Leave?
- April Case Round Up
- Photography and Copyright Infringement
- Facebook Infringed Privacy of Convicted Sex Offender
- The devastating consequences of variations in health and safety issues
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - 2015
- Statement of solicitor competence
- Big Brother is Watching You
- Smoking e-cigarettes: Are they lawful in the workplace?
- Compensation Claims Under the Data Protection Act 1998?
- Mental health law briefing 218 - Review of learning disability law
- Disputes Over IP Ownership Rights
- March Case Round-Up
- Mental health law briefing 217 - Patients’ entitlement to vote in general elections
- Journalists Caught in the Crossfire of Defamation
- Can Americans Make Successful Defamation Claims Across the Pond?
- Standard of proof
- Care home briefing 145 - Care home fees and The 'usual cost' model
- Kick it (defamation) out
- How bad does behaviour have to be in order to obtain a non-molestation order?
- Minimising property risks
- Mental health law briefing 216 - Guardianship and DoLS
- February Case Round-Up
- How far should regulation extend?
- Mental health law briefing 215 - Damages in unlawful detention claims
- User Guide to Social Media and Avoiding Legal Traps
- The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and Celebrities’ Privacy
- January case round up - Is caste discrimination a protected characteristic?
- Care home briefing 144 - Compensation for unlawful detention
- Prepare for impact
- Mental health law briefing 214 - Changes to the Mental Health Act code of practice
- Serious Fraud Office – a new dawn?
- December Case Round Up - Shared Parental Leave and more
- Care home briefing 143 - Cheshire West revisited?
- Mental health law briefing 213 - Anorexia, force feeding and best interest
- Money laundering prosecutions are in the pipeline
- Using the client account as a banking facility and the rule on underlying transactions
- November Case Round Up
- Care home briefing 142 - The Care Act 2014 in a nutshell
- Manage, don't eliminate, risk
- Raising the red flag
- Who owns the matrimonial home? Does it matter on divorce?
- Mental health law briefing 212 - The new process for court-authorised deprivation of liberty
- Is it true that you can have a 'quickie divorce' as often suggested by press reports
- Holiday Pay – Overtime decision
- Who pays the costs of divorce and related financial proceedings?
- Case Round Up
- Mental health law briefing 211 - How can the nearest relative request discharge?
- DIY justice: are private prosecutions the future?
- The SRA has a duty to lead by example
- Care home briefing 141 - The consequences of poor care
- Dividing assets and income on divorce
- Mental health law briefing 210 - Are you 'fit'?
- The duty to provide full and frank financial disclosure on divorce
- SFO faces fresh attempt at NCA merger
- Cohabitation
- Case Round Up
- Mental health law briefing 209 - To consult or not to consult the nearest relative?
- Care home briefing 140 - Are you 'fit'?
- Divided Loyalties
- RadcliffesLeBrasseur Inquest Brochure
- Ten key points for charities on commercial contracts
- Law Commission to review Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in its entirety
- Inheritance tax planning
- Changes to the Child Support System
- How to prepare for a dawn raid
- Estates Gazette - Changing structure, maintaining security
- Care home briefing 139 - Safeguarding and the Court of Protection
- Unceremonious SRA disciplinary proceedings
- Sickness and Holidays
- Mental health law briefing 208 - Streamlined process for Deprivation of Liberty cases
- 24 hour Healthcare Law Helpline
- Care home briefing 138 - Assessing the need for a DoLS authorisation
- DoLS audit form
- Mental health law briefing 207 - Prosecution of mental health staff
- Prove yourself: how to show continuing competence
- Do Not Resuscitate Notices - Duty to Consult
- A procedure for the acceptance of the pre-pack?
- National Minimum Wage and Sleeping Shifts
- No single individual should have all that responsibility
- Care home briefing 137 - Travelling time between appointments and National Minimum Wage
- Holiday Pay and Commission
- Section 110 Liquidation Schemes – Demerging the Diversity
- Mental health law briefing 206 - The incapacitated patient: Breach of article 5(4) of the European Convention on Human Rights: Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Game Changed the Rules
- Care home briefing 136 - Care Certificate pilot scheme now underway
- An interactive virtual roundtable discussion
- Mental health law briefing 205 - Procedure for transferring detained patients
- People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- Mental health law briefing 204 - Section 117 aftercare responsibilities
- 6th Conviction for corporate manslaughter – and indication of likely penalties
- The Defamation Act 2013 - A briefing for Health Sector Staff
- Early conciliation - All you ever wanted to know
- Care home briefing 135 - When a house is not a ‘home’
- Legal Services Act has not levelled the playing field
- Teacher misconduct: The prohibition of teachers
- Care home briefing 134 - Assets held by care homes for residents
- The introduction of CRAR - Cause for distress?
- Fifth Conviction for Corporate Manslaughter – and First Publicity Order
- What is deprivation of liberty? The Supreme Court speaks
- Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: House of Lords review, suggested reform and practical implications
- Does the unpleasant treatment of migrant worker amount to race discrimination?
- Mental health law briefing 203 - Mental health patient undergoes forced caesarean section
- Pushing all tribunal cases through the First-tier Tribunal would be unfair
- Employee's refusal to accept a pay cut
- The SRA Suitability Test - COLP and COFA appeals
- Best Interests – Guidance from the Supreme Court
- Care home briefing 133 - Best interests: Guidance from the Supreme Court
- Performance indicator: the SRA would learn more with a different approach
- Without prejudice and protected conversations
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - 2014
- Care home briefing 132 - Care homes, schools, hospitals, prisons: the problem of ‘non-delegable duty of care’
- Mental health law briefing 202 - Complex decisions: the interface between the MHA 1983 and the MCA
- Responding to CQC Enforcement Action
- In name and in fact: measuring the extent of partners' responsibilities
- Employment issues that should be borne in mind
- Care home briefing 131 - New rules for inquests: The impact on care homes
- Avoiding Christmas calamities!
- Mental health law briefing 201 - New rules for inquests: The impact on psychiatric hospitals
- Care home briefing 130 - Continence waste
- Firms' consumer credit activities can no longer be incidental
- Care home briefing 129 - CQC and hidden cameras in care homes
- Mental health law briefing 200 - Case update: Withholding life-sustaining treatment
- Fourth conviction for corporate manslaughter reported
- When time starts running for the purposes of bringing an Employment Tribunal claim
- The predicted demise of so many small firms affects the morale of the whole profession
- Mental health law briefing 199 - Services for mental healthcare providers
- Is an independent investigation required into the death of a patient detained under the Mental Health Act?
- Partnership agreements for medical practitioners
- Criminal Neglect? A new Offence for Managers?
- Breaking news - A dozen recent break option cases
- Reporting requirements - minor changes to the reporting of non-material breaches and the suitability test
- Gold Plated TUPE 2006
- Care home briefing 128 - Criminal neglect: a new offence for managers?
- Refusing an offer of suitable alternative employment
- Care home briefing 127 - Yet another care homes judicial review
- Mental health law briefing 198 - Is forcible feeding always medical treatment?
- Solicitors Journal - Is the sun setting on our way of life?
- Care home briefing 126 - Liverpool Care Pathway: Rightly laid to rest?
- Mental health law briefing 197 - Must reasons be given in advance to recall a patient?
- Public benefit: Revised guidance expected soon
- Laing & Buisson 2013 Finalist`
- Solicitors Journal - Two sides of the diversity coin
- Park Cakes Limited v Shumba and Others (2013)
- Solicitors Journal - An unknown quantity
- Safeguarding: An update on the Disclosure and Barring Service
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations
- Settling disputes is in everyone’s interest!
- Mental health law briefing 196 - Using restraint
- GCSE reforms: A dual consultation
- Employment Briefing - Considered changes to whistleblowing, early conciliation, fees for bringing claims and transfers of undertakings (June 2013)
- Solicitors Journal - The times are a changing
- Estates Gazette - Navigating the dilapidations pitfalls
- Solicitors Journal - "I'm right, you're wrong"
- Practice Management - Alter your structure without diminishing your standing
- Care home briefing 125 - Disclosure and Barring Service: What's new?
- ELA’s International Committee visited the European Commission (June 2013)
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - 2013
- Mental health law briefing 195 - When is a hospital manager's hearing required?
- Contract Bottling Ltd v Cave
- Post employment victimisation
- Solicitors Journal - New cost concerns
- Care home briefing 124 - Mental Capacity Act decisions: To what extent are they person or act specific?
- Mental health law briefing 194 - Appropriate unit and appropriate treatment?
- Should you register your school as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation?
- Solicitors Journal - Lucky number seven
- Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE).
- GMC ‘Good Medical Practice’ 2013 edition
- NICE publishes first joint health and social care standards
- Performers List reforms – Does interim suspension automatically result in removal from the Perform
- Mental health law briefing 193 - How long can a patient be held under section 136?
- Do you know your domicile?
- Care home briefing 123 - Complex restrictions on liberty require a detailed policy
- GCSE debate: Legal bid to have grades remarked fails
- Estates Gazette - Jackson reforms: agony or ecstasy?
- Employment Update: Controversial Reform
- Solicitors Journal - Walk the line
- Mental health law briefing 192 - Applying for a DoLS authorisation: new roles post April 2013
- Mental health law briefing 191 - Objecting to a S.19 transfer between hospitals
- Care home briefing 122 - Applying for a DoLS authorisation: New roles post April 2013
- Solicitors Journal - Grappling with outdated notions
- Mental health law briefing 190 - Legal issues in the extradition of patients with mental disorders
- Care home briefing 121 - Impact of Mental Capacity Act on public law
- Solicitors Journal - No more aggressive prosecutions
- Religious discrimination after Eweida
- Does an employer’s requirement that an employee work on a Sunday amount to discrimination?
- Mental health law briefing 189 - Can a patient pay for their care?
- Special educational needs reforms
- Green light to discriminate against volunteers?
- Safeguarding: Revised government guidance issued
- Mental health law briefing 188 - Is seclusion a deprivation of liberty?
- What to expect in 2013 ....
- Supreme Court preserve the limitations on recovery for breach of contractual disciplinary procedures
- COLPs and COFAs : a nervous wait
- Crisis Management for Healthcare Operators
- Duty of Candour
- Care home briefing 120 - Deprivation of Liberty and residential care
- Disability and the provision of auxiliary aids in schools
- Practice advice: Notice of an IOP hearing
- Dismissal of an employee in receipt of Permanent Health Insurance
- Employment Law Journal - The justice commissioner and the men in dark suits (November 2012)
- Mental health law briefing 187 - Criminal proceedings and human rights
- Care home briefings 119 - Care homes, councils and the Equality Act
- Care home briefing 118 - The validity of advance decisions
- Reasonableness of decision to dismiss
- Mental health law briefing 186 - Next of kin and nearest relative: what's the difference?
- Tenancy Deposit Schemes - lost in translation
- Normal Expenditure out of Income Exemption
- Tax planning with property
- Use of biometric information in schools
- Care home briefing 117 - Fees and judicial review update
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - Autumn 2012
- Care and Support Bill 2012
- Property in dispute: Landlord remedies
- The Government’s ongoing employment law reform programme
- SRA Investigations - Why can't the SRA adopt a policy on time extensions? (September 2012)
- CQC Compliance Action
- Mental health law briefing 185 - CTOs and SOAD certificates: Section 299 Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Mental health law briefing 184 - CQC compliance action
- Care home briefing 116 - CQC compliance action
- Changes to Disclosure and Barring
- Care home briefing 115 - The right to treatment regardless of age
- Requesting holiday during sickness absence
- Care home briefing 114 - Preparing for CQC inspections
- Preparing for CQC Inspections
- Mental health law briefing 183 - Preparing for CQC inspections
- Service charge demands - correct address must be given for the landlord
- Empty rates relief clarified
- Regulatory Watch - Are solicitors still members of a profession?
- The Right to Treatment Regardless of Age
- School sports
- Solicitors Journal - Understanding the regulatory process
- How not to carry on an independent hospital
- Health & Safety: Increasing Fines for Breach of Fire Safety Provisions
- Mental health law briefing 182 - Court orders force feeding of anorexic patient
- Plagiarism at university
- Care home briefing 113 - Health and safety: Increasing fines for breach of fire safety provisions
- Rights under a secure tenancy
- Are dishonest employees entitled to payment in lieu of notice
- Advance declarations to withdraw treatment
- Care home briefing 112 - Advance declarations to withdraw treatment
- Solicitors Journal - Simplifying the regulatory maze
- Changes to the Remittance Basis of taxation
- Mental health law briefing 181 - Search policies
- Solicitors Journal - What effect will sharing information have on the profession?
- More changes to vetting and barring
- Employment Briefing - A Justified End? (May 2012)
- Mental health law briefing 180 - Recognition of Irish detention orders
- Squatting becomes a criminal offence
- Mental health law briefing 179 - The Court’s inherent jurisdiction and the Mental Capacity Act
- Care home briefing 111 - The Queen’s Speech: Government plans to modernise adult social care and support
- New proposals for special education needs
- New rules on the use of cookies
- Is a retirement age of 65 justified?
- Employment Briefing - All change please (April 2012)
- Healthcare Law Training
- Those keen to embrace the Legal Services Act are being let down
- Litigation and education
- Care home briefing 110 - Case update: Powers of restraint and the High Court's inherent powers
- Mental health law briefing 178 - Case update: Powers of restraint and the High Court's inherent powers
- Care home briefing 109 - Investigations: How to conduct them properly
- Mental health law briefing 177 - Change of approach to regulation and inspection by the CQC
- TUPE: Change in location
- Solicitors Journal - Firms with compliance officers ready to go will benefit
- Mental health law briefing 176 – Olympics: Diplomatic immunity
- Mental health law briefing 175 - Olympics: Removal of foreign patients
- Adverse possession
- Budget Briefing 2012
- Solicitors Journal - New entrants will influence the regulatory landscape
- Care home briefing 108 - Change of approach to regulation and inspection by the CQC
- Is my trust protected if I get divorced?
- Care home briefing 107 - Judicial reviews and care home fees: the latest position
- Bullying - Responsibilities of Schools
- “Move with Caution” - Considerations for Cohabitees
- Care home briefing 106 - Care homes and fee increases
- Unfair dismissal: guidance on disciplinary procedures given by Court of Appeal
- Whether previous warnings can be taken into account when considering a claim for unfair dismissal
- Mental health law briefing 174 - Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Mental health law briefing 173 - Avoiding pre-judging applications
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - Spring 2012
- Adjournment on the grounds that the Claimant is unwell
- Once More unto the breach? (January 2012)
- On the money
- Once more unto the breach?
- Public benefit and fee charging charities
- Mental health law briefing 172 - Olympic briefings
- Care home briefing 105 - Deprivation of Liberty: children
- Our Hotel and Leisure team looks forward to the challenges of 2012
- Mental health law briefing 171 - Can a patient be discharged from detention to a DoLS authorisation?
- Mental health law briefing 170 - The financial perils of a corporate manslaughter sentence
- Mental health law briefing 169 - Public hearings in the Mental Health Tribunal
- Domestic Arbitration – time to reassert the benefits?
- Employing Briefing - Playing with perceptions (December 2011)
- Working Men’s Club and Institute Union Limited v Thomas Balls [
- Holidays and Sickness and Absence
- The General Dental Council v Savery and Others [2011] EWHC 3011 (Admin)
- To report a fault, please hold
- DoLS : What constitutes deprivation of liberty?
- Care home briefing 104 - Care home company heavily fined after resident death
- Mental health law briefing 168 - The police, Section 2 and Section 136 of the Mental Health Act
- My Expert – Should I allow him to go “Hot Tubbing”?
- NHS Manchester v Fecitt & others
- The GDC and Investigating Committee decisions
- Business Secretary, Dr Vince Cable, announces today
- False promises
- Health and Safety Executive intervention fees
- Phone Hacking - the law not the news
- GP Commissioning - A Brave New World?
- Jackson v Liverpool City Council
- Debique v Ministry of Defence - Mitigation of Loss
- Unintended Consequences
- The end of the beginning
- Conduct or some other substantial reason?
- Withdrawal of life sustaining treatment
- Care home briefing 103 - New enforcement powers for the CQC?
- Autoclenz Limited v Belcher & Others
- High Definition
- Mental health law briefing 167 - Relationship between Section 17 leave and CTOs
- GP registration delayed until 2013
- Care home 102 - Careful contract wording required in order to increase care home fees
- Hoarders/Uncooperative Tenants - Some Solutions
- The eviction of Dale Farm in Essex begins today
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust v Hamshore & Others
- MChoice UK Limited v Aalders
- Lease Guarantee: When can you not rely on them?
- Resisting temptation
- Mental health law briefing 166 - Patient assaults on staff
- Care home briefing 101 - Compensation for poor care
- Tax and Private Client newsletter - 2011
- Watson v University of Strathclyde
- R (Bonhoeffer) v General Medical Council
- Mental health law briefing 165 - Deprivation of Liberty: Seclusion in residential special schools
- Fair play
- Care home briefing 100 - Fee negotiations: OLM and the Freedom of Information Act
- Corporate Newsletter - Summer 2011
- Prepack Administration: will three days prevent a “phoenix”?
- The Perils of Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules
- Taxation of non-domiciled individuals
- The proposed statutory definition of tax residence
- Wardle v Crėdit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
- R (on the application of G) v The Governors of X School
- R (Bonhoeffer) vGMC [2011] EWHC 1585 (Admin)
- Cherfi v G4S Security Services Limited
- Called into question
- Mental health law briefing 164 - Discharge or CTO?
- Care home briefing 99 - The operation of DoLS in England 2009/10
- Care home briefing 98 - How do you assess best interests?
- Can you disclose your tax irregularities, if you are not a plumber?
- Jones v. Kaney [2011] UKSC 13 Expert evidence … and should every wrong have a remedy?
- Solicitors Journal - Seal of Approval
- McKie v Swindon College 2011
- How do you assess Best Interests?
- Impact on the Jackson Reforms on Defendants
- Mental health law briefing 163 - How do you assess best interests?
- Implementation of the Bribery Act 2010
- Constitutions for Commissioning Consortia
- Care home briefing 97 - Maximising your registration
- Solicitors Journal - Role play
- Solicitors Journal - Code of conflict
- Mahood v Irish Centre Housing Limited
- Care home briefing 96 - Turning the key on a new care home
- Vetting and Barring Scheme - An Update
- Article 6 and the right to practise a profession
- Care home briefing 95 - Court of Protection confirms jurisdiction to award damages for human rights breaches
- Budget Briefing 2011
- Solicitors Journal - Going overboard
- Paying Tribute
- Employment Appeal Tribunal in Greenwood v NWF Retail Limited
- Challenging Expulsion from University
- Care home briefing 94 - Census 2011: How does it affect care homes?
- Solicitors Journal - Branching Out
- Pitfalls with GP premises leases
- Road to ruin
- Southern Cross Healthcare Co Ltd v Perkins & Others
- Orr v Milton Keynes Council
- Government unveils plans to reform the regulation of health and social care professionals
- Mental health law briefing 162 - The liability of hospital managers for unlawful applications by an AMHP
- Why should I get a pre nuptial agreement?
- Bribery Act 2010 – An Update
- Inquests Be Prepared!
- Locke v Candy and Candy Limited
- Mental health law briefing 161 - CQC annual report highlights concerns over the use of CTOs
- Care home briefing 93 - As the dust settles on re-registration, are you complying with the new regime?
- The Without Prejudice Rule and the many exceptions to it
- The European Commission Green Paper on European Contract Law “ A benevolent intervention in anothe
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- Case Round Up - Tilson & Alstom Transport [2010]
- Brink’s Global Services v Igrox
- Discrimination claims in law firms
- Eviction of local authority tenants – a question of proportionality
- Turn of the screw
- Mental health law briefing 160 - Damages for negligent dosage of lamotrigine
- Care home briefing 92 - Hospice care: a recoverable cost?
- Care home briefing 91 - Equality Act 2010: Employment implications
- The problem of costs in construction litigation
- CQC Commissioner Assessment Update
- Gisda Cyf v Barratt [2010]
- Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2000
- Solicitors Journal - Delicate condition
- Mental health law briefing 159 - Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards case update
- Law Society Gazette - Are aptitude tests and higher fees right for the LPC?
- Care home briefing 90 - Review of vetting and barring scheme
- Solicitors Journal article - Shield bearers (November 2010)
- Care home briefing 89 - Entitlement to GP services
- Mental health law briefing 158 - Secret filming in care homes and hospital
- CPR Part 36 - Is rejection really rejection?
- BNP Paribas v Mezzotero
- Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Soliciors Journal - Three's a crowd
- Mental health law briefing 157 - The affect on a pending manager's appeal if the patient is placed on supervised community treatment
- Care home briefing 88 - Secret filming in care homes and hospitals: a legal perspective
- Solicitors Journal - Welcome to the lion's den
- Dorbcrest Homes Limited v Fishwick [2010]
- What is a house?
- Making a Will - a matter of choice
- GMC Guidance – End of Life Care
- Disciplinary Procedures : Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust v Roldan
- Rose Gibb v Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Care home briefing 87 - Pressure on care home fees
- Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Enforcement of a Judgment
- NHS white paper: 'Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS'
- Best Interests Check List
- Mental Capacity Assessment Check List
- Care home briefing 86 - Mental Capacity Assessment checklist
- Mental health law briefing 156 - Deprivation of Liberty: The Court rules on restraint and transportation
- A case update: break clauses and surrender of leases
- Case of the month - BNP Paribas v Mezzotero (July 2010)
- Care home briefing 85 - CQC re-registration update
- UK Border Agency licences for education providers
- Spousal Bypass Trust
- Healthcare Briefing - Jones v Kaney [2010] EWHC 61 (QB) (June 2010)
- Employment Briefing - Football sickies (June 2010)
- Healthcare Briefing - The right to a good death (June 2010)
- Healthcare Briefing - STOP PRESS - Government halt Vetting and Barring Scheme (June 2010)
- Healthcar Briefing - The Bribery Act 2010 - Focus on the new corporate offence (June 2010)
- SDLT efficient sub-scale schemes under the spotlight
- Care home briefing 84 - Home closures and residents ’ rights: European law guidance
- Case of the month - Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (June 2010)
- Care home briefing 83 - Best interests checklist
- Mental Health Law Briefing 155 - Duty to Prevent Suicide II
- Mental Capacity Assessment Checklist
- Employment Law News - Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster v marshall and another) (May 2010)
- Case of the month - Wood v Mitchell SA Ltd (May 2010)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 154 - Section 117 Aftercare Revisited - Which Local Authority Is Responsible
- Employment Law News - Department for Work and Pensions v Alam (April 2010)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 153 - Powers of restraint and or detention
- Case of the month - Dunn v AAH Limited (April 2010)
- Wills Questionnaire
- Haelthcare Briefing - Adult Safeguarding: Government Response to Consultation (March 2010)
- Breaking free: Considerations for tenants on exercising break clauses
- Healthcare Briefing - CQC Registration - Part 2 - March 2010
- Healthcare Briefing - Reputation Management (March 2010)
- Case of the month - Bateman & Others v Asda Stores Ltd (March 2010)
- Employment Law News - Shah v First West Yorkshire Ltd (March 2010)
- Healthcare Briefing - A basic guide to the New Vetting and Barring Scheme (March 2010)
- Care Home Briefing 82 - A new approach to making Wills
- Healthcare Briefing - HMRC Announces Tax Disclosure Opportunity for Medical Professionals (February 2010)
- Case of the month - Ashby v Monterry Designs Limited (February 2010)
- Care Home Briefing 81 - NMC to consider Regulation of Health Care Assistants
- Healthcare Briefing - CQC Registration (February 2010)
- Employment Law News - Right to legal representation at disciplinary hearings: G v X School and Y City Council (January 2010)
- Case of the month - Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police v Natasha Caston (January 2010)
- Care Home Briefing 80 - Tube Feeding of Residents in Care Homes - the Legal Issues
- Healthcare Briefing - Reform of Coroner's System - Executive Summary (January 2010)
- Employment Law News - Religion and Religious Beliefs (January 2010)
- Healthcare Briefing - Crisis Management - Protect the future of your Business and your Reputation (January 2010)
- Case of the month - Grainger PLC v Nicholson (December 2009)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 152 - Mental Health & Debt
- Healthcare Briefing - New Powers for NHS Staff to deal with Nuisance Behaviour (December 2009)
- Getting in on the Act: How landlords can try to obtain possession of business premises from protected tenants
- Case of the month - Saunders v Department for Work & Pensions – Child Support Agency (November 2009)
- Care Home Briefing 79 - Information Sharing and Mental Health – guidance issued by the Department of Health
- Employment Briefing - What amounts to religious beliefs (November 2009)
- Healthcare Briefing - Welsh Update - Restructuring Healthcare in Wales (November 2009)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 151 - Information Sharing and Mental Health - guidance issued by the Department of Health
- Mental Health Law Briefing 150 - Recent Guidance on what Treatment can Fall within Section 63 MHA
- Corporate Newsletter - Companies Act 2006 - the final phase (Autumn 2009)
- Case of the month - Norton Tool Company Limited v Tewson (October 2009)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 149 - How extensive is seclusion
- Care Home Briefing 78 - The Liverpool Care Pathway
- Surrendering to market conditions
- Case of the month - Strand Transport Services Limited v Whitworth (September 2009)
- Healthcare Briefing - Compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 for doctors who treat patients privately (September 2009)
- Healthcare Briefing - Summary guidelines on Consent to Treatment (September 2009)
- Care Home Briefing 77 - Draft Guidance on the provision of supported living
- Care Home Briefing 76 - 24 Hour Advice Line
- Case of the month - Packaging Limited v Boyle (August 2009)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 148 - NHS Continuing Healthcare and Section 117 After-care
- Mental Health Law Briefing-147 - Human Rights and Voluntary Patients
- Employment Briefing - Employment services for care homes (Summer 2009)
- Healthcare Briefing - The Care Quality Commission Consultation on Registration (July 2009)
- Franchise agreements
- Care Home Briefing 75 - "Voices into action" Charter
- Mental Health Law Briefing 146 - Scrutiny of Court Orders by Hospital Managers
- 'Subject to Licence' - Avoiding the pitfalls
- Mental Health Law Briefing 145 - Guidance on Restricted Patients
- Healthcare Briefing - Court of Appeal Decision - Dr Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 789
- Sustainability in commercial property - Saving the planet a covenant at a time: Do green leases have a future?
- Healthcare Briefing - The Care Quality Commission Powers of Enforcement (June 2009)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 144 - Access to Patient Records by Independent Mental Health Advocates
- Case of the month - Kirklees Metropolitan Council v Robert John Radecki (May 2009)
- Healthcare Briefing - Disclosure of staff statements taken for SUI reports The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (May 2009)
- Care Home Briefing 74 - Personal Expenses Allowance and charging for residential care
- Employment Briefing - The New ACAS Code of Practice the implications (April 2009)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 143 - National Mental Health Development Unit Announced
- Case of the month - Teva (UK) Ltd v Goubatchev (April 2009)
- Care Home Briefing 73 - The Care of Home Residents suffering from Dementia
- Case of the month - Small v The Boots Co PLC and Boots UK Ltd (March 2009)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 142 - Independent Mental Health Advocates II
- Healthcare Briefing - A Fundamental Change in the Standard of Proof at the General Medical Council (February 2009)
- Healthcare Briefing - Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: In force April 2009 (March 2009)
- Case of the month - UCATT v AMICUS (February 2009)
- The Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- Care Home Briefing 72 - Health & Safety: Increasing Impact
- Case of the month - Royal Mail Group Ltd v Communications Workers Union (January 2009)
- Employment Alert - Holiday Pay accrues to Sick Workers (January 2009)
- Healthcare Briefing - Reforms to Inquest System Announced (January 2009)
- Employment Briefing - STOP PRESS – Pova And Poca Lists (January 2009)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 141 - Mental Health Act 2007 - Countdown Briefing No 6 - Supervised Community Treatment
- Employment Alert - Holiday pay accrues to sick workers (January 2009)
- Care Home Briefing 71 - Recovering payment of fees
- Mental Health Law Briefing 140 - Mental Health Act 2007 - Independent Mental Health Advocates
- Mental Health Law Briefing 139 - Mental Health Law Principles
- Care Home Briefing 70 - Human Rights Act 1998
- Mental Health Law Briefing 138 - Duty to prevent suicide
- Mental Health Law Briefing 137 - Recall to Hospital Deprivation of Liberty
- Mental Health Law Briefing 136 - Hospital Managers: A New Approach to Conditional Discharge?
- Mental Health Law Briefing 135 - Mental Health Act 2007 - Countdown Briefing No 5 - Obligations on Social Services to assess Patients
- Employment Alert - New National Minimum Wage limits that are in force with effect from 1st October (October 2008)
- Care Home Briefing 69 - Human Rights Act 1998: Parliament passes legislation applying the Human Rights Act
- Mental Health Law Briefing 134 - What amounts to an assessment for detention?
- Healthcare Briefing - Healthcare Commission – Increasing Action/Prosecution Report (September 2008)
- Healthcare Briefing - Survey Results: The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (Juy 2008)
- Healthcare Briefing - Draft Charter for Bereaved People (July 2008)
- Healthcare Briefing - Inquest: New Rights for Bereaved Families (July 2008)
- Healthcare Briefing - Chaperones- A help or a hindrance? (July 2008)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 133 - Mental Health Act 2007 - Countdown Briefing No 4
- Mental Health Law Briefing 132 - Refusal of care to illegal immigrants: A breach of Human Rights?
- Healthcare Briefing - Statutory Duty to Report Deaths (June 2008)
- Case of the month - Rank Nemo (DMS) Limited v Coutinho (July 2009)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 131 - Court upholds the smoking ban in psychiatric hospitals
- Care Home Briefing 67 - Quality ratings and a system of review
- Mental Health Law Briefing 130 - Mental Health Act 2007 - Countdown Briefing No 3 - Revised Code of Practice
- Mental Health Law Briefing 129 - Refocusing the Care Programme Approach (CPA)
- Employment Briefing - Changes to the information and consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 (April 2008)
- Employment Briefing - Employer liable for suicide of employee following accident at work (April 2008)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 128 - Changes to the Tribunal Service
- Employment Briefing - Has the tide finally turned on the status of Agency Workers? (April 2008)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 127 - Mental Health Act 2007 - Countdown Briefing No 2 - Place of Safety
- Mental Health Law Briefing 126 - Smoke-Free Legislation - Time runs out for Mental Health Units
- Care Home Briefing 66 - Human Rights Act To Apply To Nursing Homes
- Mental Health Law Briefing 125 - Mental Health Act 2007 - Countdown Briefing No.1
- Care Home Briefing 65 - The Impact Of The Mental Capacity Act On End Of Life Care
- Mental Health Law Briefing 124 - Patient Suicide: Compensation claims under the Human Rights Act
- Employment Alert - Increase to compensation limits (February 2008)
- Care Home Briefing 64 - Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
- Employment Briefing - Does holiday entitlement accrue during long-term sickness absence? (February 2008)
- Employment Alert - Is there such a thing as disability discrimination by association? – there may well be (February 2008)
- Employment Alert - Court of Appeal hands down important Judgment concerning agency workers (February 2008)
- Employment Briefing - Age discrimination – 18 months on (February 2008)
- Care Home Briefing 63 - Senior Care Workers - New Border & Immigration Agency Guidelines
- Care Home Briefing 62 - No duty of care owned by CSCI to care home operators for home closure
- Mental Health Law Briefing 123 - Challenge by patient to the appointment of nearest relative
- Employment Briefing - NEWSFLASH - Further update on the Wright case/POVA (January 2008)
- Healthcare Briefing - Charity Commission decide independent healthcare provider is not charitable (January 2008)
- Care Home Briefing 61 - Work Permits
- Mental Health Law Briefing 122 - Re-sectioning Patients: Further Guidelines
- Employment Briefing - Employer’s liability: the office party. A recipe for a claim in the Employment Tribunal (December 2007)
- Care Home Briefing 60 - The Decision in Wright and Operation of the POVA List
- Mental Health Law Briefing 121 - Mental Health Act 2007 : Amending the Mental Capacity Act
- Healthcare Briefing - Corporate Manslaughter Consultation (November 2007)
- Care Home Briefing 59 - New Criminal Offence: Prosecution for Neglect
- Mental Health Law Briefing 120 - Mental Health Act 2007 Plugging the Bournewood gap: Authorising Deprivation of Liberty
- Healthcare Briefing - Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act 10 – Are you ready for the Mental Capacity Act 2005? (October 2007)
- Care Home Briefing 58 - The covert administration of medicine
- Healthcare Briefing - Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act 9 – Lasting Powers of Attorney (Oct 2007)
- Healthcare Briefing - Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act 8 – Advance Decisions (October 2007)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 119 - Marriage of Detained Patients
- Care Home Briefing 57 - Verdict: Neglect
- Employment Briefing - Are you ready for the changes in annual leave entitlement (September 2007)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 118 - Mental Health Act 2007 - Part 2
- Care Home Briefing 56 - Potential implications of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 for care home operators
- Healthcare Briefing - Corporate Manslaughter (August 2007)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 117 - Mental Health Act 2007
- Care Home Briefing 55 - CSCI Safeguarding Adults Protocol
- Healthcare Briefing - Sexual Behaviour Code in the Healthcare Profession (July 2007)
- Healthcare Briefing - Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act 7 – The Relationship between the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act (Sept 200
- Mental Health Law Briefing 116 - Section 63: A further challenge to its compatibility with the Human Rights Act
- Care Home Briefing 54 - Plugging the Bournewood gap
- Mental Health Law Briefing 115 - DOH announces further amendments to Mental Health Bill
- Care Home Briefing 53 - Does the Human Rights Act apply to private care homes?
- Employment Alert - Countdown to the smoking ban (June 2007)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 114 - Plugging the Bournewood gap
- Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act 6 – The Code of Practice
- Mental Health Law Briefing 113 - Discharge conditional upon taking medication
- Care Home Briefing 52 - Mental Capacity Act 2005: The provisions in force on 1 April 2007
- Employment Alert - Bank Holiday Mondays and Part Time Workers (May 2007)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 112 - The Liability of Hospital for Patient Assaults on Staff
- Healthcare Briefing - Review of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (April 2007)
- Care Home Briefing 51A - Smoke Free Legislation To Affect Care Homes
- Healthcare Briefing - Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act 5 – A New Criminal Offence (April 2007)
- Healthcare Briefing - Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act 4 – The Coming of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (March 2007)
- Healthcare Briefing - Coroners To Get More Power To Prevent Future Death (March 2007)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 111 - Smokefree Legislation to affect Mental Health Units
- Employment Briefing - Agency workers are agency workers (March 2007)
- Care Home Briefing 50 - Palliative Care
- Mental Health Law Briefing 110 - Recall from Conditional Discharge
- Care Home Briefing 49 - Are Care Homes subject to the Human Rights Act?
- Employment Alert - Increase to compensation limits (February 2007)
- Healthcare Briefing - Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act 3 – Implementation Dates (February 2007)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 109 - Hospital managers: can they order conditional discharge?
- Care Home Briefing 48 - Rating a care home – key lines of regulatory inspections for older people
- Employment Alert - Increase in annual leave entitlement (January 2007)
- Healthcare Briefing - Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act 2 – ‘Best interests checklist’ (January 2007)
- Healthcare Briefing - Countdown to the Mental Capacity Act I (January 2007)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 108 - The Mental Health Bill 2006
- Care Home Briefing 47 - Fire Safety -Care Homes (December 2006)
- Employment Briefing - Death in service (November 2006)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 107 - Harassment and sexual assault by staff
- Care Home Briefing 46 - Health and safety prosecutions
- Mental Health Law Briefing 106 - Publication of mental health reports - Michael Stone
- Care Home Briefing 45 - Statutory Wills: ensuring residents have Wills
- Mental Health Law Briefing 105 - Challenging treatment under the Mental Health Act
- Care Home Briefing 44 - Care home closures
- Healthcare Briefing - Investors in Healthcare: Reviewing the strength of your security (August 2006)
- Care Home Briefing 43 - The covert administration of medicine
- Mental Health Law Briefing 104 - Coroner Reform Bill
- Employment Alert - Fixed-term employees (July 2006)
- Care Home Briefing 41 - Implementing the Mental Capacity Act
- Care Home Briefing 42 - Plugging the Bournewood gap – The Government’s response to consultation
- Mental Health Law Briefing 103 - Plugging the 'Bournewood' gap - The Government's response to consultation
- Employment Update - Age Discrimination (July 2006)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 102 - Implementing the Mental Capacity Act
- Care Home Briefing 40 - Proposed registration of domiciliary and residential social care workers
- Employment Alert - Football "Fever"! (June 2006)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 101 - The covert administration of medicine
- Care Home Briefing 39 - Corporate manslaughter health & safety prosecutions
- Mental Health Law Briefing 100 - Milestone Briefing - Revising the Mental Health Act
- Care Home Briefing 38 - Resuscitation of mentally ill elderly patients and DNR policies
- Mental Health Law Briefing 99 - Resuscitation of mentally ill elderly patients and DNR policies
- Employment Briefing - Will the pensions crisis ever stop? (April 2006)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 98 - Civil Partnerships
- Care Home Briefing 37 - Care homes to become public authorities?
- Mental Health Law Briefing 97 - Leaks of patient information to the media: can the press be required to disclose the source?
- Care Home Briefing 36 - Regulatory powers of the NMC
- Employment Alert - New compensation limits for dismissals on or after 1 February 2006 (February 2006)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 96 - Mental Health Review Tribunals: a miscellany of recent decisions
- Care Home Briefing 35 - Protection of vulnerable adults: Guardianship or the Court’s inherent jurisdiction
- Mental Health Law Briefing 95 - Section 2 Detention and Incapable Patients - House of Lords Decision
- Employment Alert - Changes to the Disability Discrimination Act (December 2005
- Care Home Briefing 34 POVA – The first 100 Referrals
- Employment Briefing - Disability Discrimination Legislation Broadened (December 2005)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 94 - The Decision of the House of Lords in Munjaz: giving less significance to the Code of Practice?
- Mental Health Law Briefing 93 - Hospital managers given an over-riding discretion
- Employment Briefing - Increase in National Minimum Wage and Reforms to Sex Discrimination Legislation (October 2005)
- Care Home Briefing 33 - Settling disputes with the Regulator on conditions – a gap in the Act and the Tribunal’s procedural powers
- Care Home Briefing 32 - To have or not to have…….. CRB checks for staff before starting work
- Care Home Briefing 31 - Protection of vulnerable adults – recent court guidance
- Mental Health Law Briefing 92 - What implications does Bournewood ruling have on ECT treatment?
- Employment Briefing - More bad news for companies using agency staff! (September 2005)
- Employment Briefing - Age Discrimination (September 2005)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 91 - Nearest Relatives: A miscellany of latest case law
- Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP) and applications for assignment of leases
- Care Home Briefing 30 - Understanding the Interface with Mental Health Services
- Employment Briefing - Occupational pensions, what now? (July 2005)
- Employment Briefing - Draft Age Discrimination Regulations are published (July 2005)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 90 - Government response to the Report of the Joint Scrutiny Committee
- Employment Briefing - The cost of blowing the whistle (July 2005)
- Healthcare Briefing - A Doctrine of Informed Consent? (January 2005)
- Care Home Briefing 29 - Untoward and serious incidents
- Healthcare Briefing - Causation in clinical negligence (June 2005)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 89 - Tribunal Hearings: the Burden of Proof
- Care Home Briefing 28 - Compensation For Negligent Nursing Care
- Mental Health Law Briering 88 - Section 2: Detention and Incapable Patients
- Care Home Briefing 27 - Statutory Dismissal and Grievance Procedures: How they affect you
- Care Home Briefing 26 - Termination of employment of suspended staff
- Employment Briefing - Workers on sick leave are not entitled to holiday pay (April 2005)
- Employment Alert - BE AWARE! Changes to maternity pay calculation mean employees on maternity leave may receive pay rise (April 2005)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 87 - Treatment, Nearest Relatives and Managers' Decisions
- Employment Briefing - Troublesome bouncers (April 2005)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 86 - Mental Health Bill needs radical overhaul
- Care Home Briefing 25 - Nominating a next of kin
- Mental Health Law Briefing 85 - Contacting a patient's family - how far does confidentiality extend?
- Employment Briefing - 2004 – Not a good year for the small employer (February 2005)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 84 - Patients' Entitlement to Vote in General Elections
- Employment Briefing - New Compensation Limits for Dismissals on or after 1 February 2005 (February 2005)
- Care Home Briefing 24 - Residents’ Entitlement to Vote in General Elections
- Mental Health Law Briefing 83 - Bournewood - Guidance on Implementation
- Care Home Briefing 23 - Bournewood: Implementation of Government guidance
- Collateral Duties to third parties
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 Briefing
- Mental Health Law Briefing 82 - New Code Of Practice Covering Recruitment Of Overseas Staff
- Employment Briefing - Pornography in the workplace may amount to Harassment (December 2004)
- Care Home Briefing 22 - New Code Of Practice Covering Recruitment Of Overseas Healthcare Staff
- Care Home Briefing 21 - National Minimum Standards
- Mental Health Law Briefing 81 - Inquests - A Change In Approach?
- Employment Briefing - New information and consultation rules from April 2005 (November 2004)
- Care Home Briefing 20 - Taking photos of patients without capacity
- Mental Health Law Briefing 80 - The European Court of Human Rights overturns the House of Lords
- Commonhold - A new beginning
- Employment Alert - ALL CHANGE! New rules that come into effect from the beginning of October concerning employment practice
- Healthcare Briefing - Doctor’s acquittal overturned (September 2004)
- Care Home Briefing 19 - Contracts with Care home residents
- Planning - Use Classes Changes
- Employment Alert - Court of Appeal denies over 65s the right to claim unfair dismissal (September 2004)
- Care Home Briefing 18 - Agency Workers - But are they your employees?
- Me first! A tenant’s right of first refusal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
- Employment Briefing - Constructive Dismissal and Reasonable Adjustments to Contractual Sick Pay Policies (August 2004)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 79 - New Draft Mental Health Bill Published
- Mental Health Law Briefing 78 - Tribunals (and Managers?) - The Duty to give adequate reasons
- Employment Briefing - Landmark Ruling By The House Of Lords Provides Guidance On The Duty To Make Reasonable Adjustments (July 2004)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 77 - New Approaches to Mental Health
- Employment Briefing - Agency workers could be your employees (July 2004)
- Healthcare Briefing - Human Rights (June 2004)
- Care Home Briefing 17 - Care Standards Act Regulation – Who is a “Fit Person”?
- Care Home Briefing 16 - Management of a resident's affairs 2
- Mental Health Law Briefing 76 - Who should the SOAD Consult?
- Care Home Briefing 15 - Management of a resident's affairs I
- Mental Health Law Briefing 75 - Conditional Discharge
- Mezzanine floors – A cunning plan?
- Employment Briefing - Back home again (April 2004)
- Care Home Briefing 14 - The Transfer of Assets and Availability of Public Funding
- Mental Health Law Briefing 74 - Detention under the Mental Health Act
- A tale of two systems – Reforms to the law of adverse possession
- Mental Health Law Briefing 73 - Executing Warrants Under Section 135
- Care Home Briefing 13 - Government’s Response to the Report on the Draft Mental Incapacity Bill
- The Disability Discrimination Act 1995
- Healthcare Briefing - Freedom of Information Act (February 2004)
- Care Home Briefing 12 - New Inquiry – Palliative Care
- Mental Health Law Briefing 72 - Representation of Patients and Disclosure of Reports at Managers' Hearings
- Calculating Stamp Duty Land Tax on leases
- Care Home Briefing 11 - Healthcare or Residential Care: The Assessment of Care Needs
- Mental Health Law Briefing 71 - Children: Capacity and Consent - a Summary Briefing
- Land Registration reforms – what you need to know
- Employment Briefing - New Year’s employment resolutions for 2004 (January 2004)
- Care Home Briefing 10 - Nearest relatives and next of kin
- Mental Health Law Briefing 70 - Treatment without Consent: Breach of the Human Rights Act
- Landlords on the roof – An update
- Mental Health Law Briefing 69 - House of Lords Rule on Mental Health Issues
- Stamp Duty Land Tax
- Employment Briefing - Employment tribunals go overseas (November 2003)
- Care Home Briefing 9 - Data Protection: Employee Records
- Mental Health Law Briefing 68 - The Status of the Code of Practice
- Care Home Briefing 8 - Harassment, Violent Residents and Visitors: Protecting Staff
- Mental Health Law Briefing 67 - Draft Mental Incapacity Bill
- Healthcare Briefing - Inquests (September 2003)
- New statutory rights for residential leaseholders
- Dematerialisation and vectorisation! The Land Registration Act 2002
- Mental Health Law Briefing 66 - Seclusion after the Human Rights Act: Important new Court Guidance
- Care Home Briefing 7 - Draft Mental Incapacity Bill
- The construction industry scheme: A potential minefield for landlords
- Service charges - A further safeguard for residential leaseholders
- Mental Health Law Briefing 65 - Charging for Aftercare Services under s117 Mental Health Act 1983 - The Final Story
- What is a reasonable time to remedy a breach of covenant?
- Care Home Briefing 6 - Advance Directives II – Form and Content
- Assignments and sub-lettings - points to watch
- Care Home Briefing 5 - Advance Directives
- Mental Health Law Briefing 64 - Treatment under Section 63 - New Limitations
- Employment Briefing - New EU measures on the way (June 2003)
- Stamp Duty: More tax on land (and transitional provisions)
- Mortgagees of leasehold property left out in the cold
- Mental Health Law Briefing 63 - Renewal of Detention of "Patients in the Community"
- Care Home Briefing 4 - Closing Care Homes – A Breach of the Human Rights Act?
- A change in the law relating to payment of rent by cheque
- Rent concessions
- Care Home Briefing 3 - Data Protection: Patient and Health Records
- Employment Briefing - Flexible working - how to deal with employees' requests (April 2003)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 62 - So who is the nearest relative? Gay and Lesbian Patients
- Healthcare Briefing - Sexual Offences (July 2003)
- The importance of obtaining valuation evidence at an early stage in dilapidations claims
- Mental Health Law Briefing 61 - Hospital Managers' Decisions - Do they have to be Unanimous?
- Care Home Briefing 2 - Passive Smoking
- Private rights of way for vehicles
- The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
- Mental Health Law Briefing 60 - Alternative Treatments and Consent after the Human Rights Act
- Asbestos
- Ten things that developers should know about environmental law
- Landlord's building works - avoiding payment of compensation for interruption of use
- Landlords on the roof
- Care home briefing 1 - A new briefing for the care homes sector
- Mental Health - Section 63 of the Mental Health Act provides that the consent of a patient detained under certain sections of the Act
- Mental Health Law Briefing 58 - A Christmas Miscellany
- Employment Briefing - Health and Safety (December 2002)
- Mental Health Law Briefing 57 - Seclusion - Human Rights Compliant
- Mental Health Law Briefing 56 - If at first you don't succeed: Re-sectioning revisited
- Commercial solutions for landlords where a tenant becomes insolvent
- Business tenancies with a residential element
- Mental Health Law Review 55 - Disclosure of information to victims
- Granting licences – A trap for the unwary
- Beware forbearance!
- Mental Health Law Review 54 - Stop Press: The Draft Mental Health Bill
- Mental Health Law Briefing 53 - Compulsory Treatment: The SOAD Procedure and a Review of Doctors' Clinical Judgment
- Property Dispute Briering - Commonhold & Leasehold Reform Act 2002 – In Summary : the key issues affecting property disputes
- Mental Health Law Briefing 52 - Guidance for Healthcare Professionals - Care for those lacking capacity
- Law Commission consultation paper on housing - Renting homes: (1) Status and security
- Mental Health Law Briefing 51 - Stop Press: Court ruling to open floodgate for claims
- Mental Health Law Briefing 50 - The Care Standards Act 2000 - A Summary Overview
- New costs restrictions in possession actions
- Mental Health Law Briefing 49 - Unit closures - A reason for challenge?
- Pre-action protocol housing disrepair claims
- Mental Health Law Briefing 48 - E-mail regulations and the healthcare sector
- Storm clouds gather for landlords
- Mental Health Law Briefing 47 - Yet more Human Rights
- Landlords’ liability for injury
- Mental Health Law Briefing 46 - ECT and the SOAD Procedure
- Tenants who unlawfully sub-let beware
- Mental Health Law Briefing 45 - No sex please - we're patients! Human Rights and Policies Restricting Sexual Activiity
- Business tenancies: whether proposals in tenant’s notice to renew a 1954 Act lease are required to be genuine
- Mental Health Law Briefing 44 - Covert Medication and Nurse Prescribing
- Leasehold valuation tribunals: Jurisdiction to review service sharges
- Mental Health Law Briefing 43 - Human Rights - Tribunal Hearings
- Possession orders: A breach of the Human Rights Act, the right to a private and home life?
- Mental Health Law Briefing 42 - Compensation for psychiatric errors - The latest cases
- Mental Health Law Briefing 41 - The Treatability Test - Further case law
- Mental Health Law Briefing 40 - Failure to prevent suicide
- Mental Health Law Briefing 39 - Human Rights: Patients' rights to receive telephone calls
- Mental Health Law Briefing 38 - Latest cases from the Tribunal
- Mental Health Law Briefing 37 - Compensation for unlawful detention in a Psychiatric Hospital
- Mental Health Law Briefing 36 - The white paper 'Reforming the Mental Health Act'
- Mental Health Law Briefing 35 - Restricted patients and nearest relatives
- Mental Health Law Briefing 34 - Human rights and mental health
- Mental Health Law Briefing 33 - Visiting Patients and the Human Rights Act
- Mental Health Law Briefing 32 - "Re-sectioning" patients
- Mental Health Law Briefing 31 - So what do you need to say to the nearest relative?
- Mental Health Law Briefing 30 - Tribunal not bound to re-classify patient
- Mental Health Law Briefing 29 - Deciding who is the "nearest relative" of a patient
- Mental Health Law Briefing 28 - Stop Press: Appeal Court confirms liability to pay for accommodation
- Mental Health Law Briefing 27 - Duty to provide Psychiatric Supervision in the Community under S.117 MHA
- Mental Health Law Briefing 24 - Hunger Strikes
- Mental Health Law Briefing 23 - Criteria for Discharge
- Mental Health Law Briefing 22 - Nearest Relative Rights - Ignore them at your peril?
- Mental Health Law Briefing 20 - "Seamless Service" for Mental Health Service to be introduced
- Mental Health Law Briefing 18 - Wrongful Imprisonment
- Mental Health Law Briefing 17 - Conditions on Discharge imposed by Tribunals
- Mental Health Law Briefing 16 - Psychiatric Patients and Windows
- Mental Health Law Briefing 15 - The Treatability Test
- Mental Health Law Briefing 14 - Who are the responsible after-care bodies?
- Mental Health Law Briefing 13 - Hospital Managers' Reviews
- Mental Health Law Briefing 12 - Displacement of nearest relative
- Mental Health Law Briefing 11 - Prescription of unlicensed psychiatric medicines
- Mental Health Law Briefing 10 - Liability for Psychiatric Patients in the Community - Latest Cases
- Mental Health Law Briefing 9 - Distinction between Nature and Degree of Mental Disorder
- Mental Health Law Briefing 7 - Renewing the tetention of patients on Section 17 Leave
- Mental Health Law Briefing 6 - Mental Health Law and the new Human Rights Act
- Mental Health Law Briefing 5 - Consent to Treatment and Mental Health
- Mental Health Law Briefing 4 - Emergency Detention Powers
- Mental Health Law Briefing 3 - Mental Health Act Managers Meeting
- Mental Health Law Briefing 1 (The Crime (Sentances) Act 1997
- Implementing the Mental Health Act Questionnaire
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