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Quashing a decision on the basis of material error of fact

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2010

In R (March) v Secretary of State for Health 2010 EWHC 765 (Admin), Mr Justice Holman in the High Court quashed on the grounds of material error of fact a decision by the Secretary of State concerning the level of ex gratia payments made to NHS patients treated with contaminated blood

YL v Birmingham City Council

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 30 2007

A care home, when providing accommodation and care to a resident pursuant to arrangements made with a local authority, is not performing “functions of a public nature” for the purposes of s6(3)(b) of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and is thus in that respect not a “public authority” obliged to act compatibly with Convention rights under s6(1) of that Act

Court clarifies when handcuffs should be used on prisoners or detained persons when in hospital

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 7 2012

The case of FGP v Serco (2012) EWHC 1804 (Admin) concerned the judicial review of Serco’s decision to use restraints on an individual during visits to Hillingdon Hospital

Fertility treatment for prisoners: the scope of human rights

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 3 2011

A recent Freedom of Information request has revealed that since December 2007, 22 prisoners have applied to the Ministry of Justice for artificial insemination treatment

Regulatory briefing - 2012 case round-up

  • 1 Chancery Lane
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 6 2012

As 2012 draws to a close, Chambers’ Regulatory Group has selected its favourite regulatory cases of the year, illustrating a number of important principles

High Court sets out key principles to ensure a fair consultation process

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 10 2013

In the recent decision of R (on the application of Save our Surgery Ltd) v Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts 2013 EWHC 439, the court quashed

Patient matters rights of overstayers - Court of Appeal rules that local authority should provide support to overstayers with an outstanding application for leave to remain

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 14 2010

The Court of Appeal has ruled, in the case of Birmingham City Council v Clue & Others 2010 EWCA Civ 460 on the approach that a local authority should adopt when an individual who is unlawfully in the UK seeks social services support from it

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Shifting the responsibility: local authorities now face greater liability for unlawful detention in mental health cases.

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 23 2011

In the recent TTM decision, the Court of Appeal shifted some of the responsibility for the unlawful detention of mental health patients away from NHS trusts and onto local authorities

Cheshire West and Cheshire Council - deprivation of liberty decision from the Court of Appeal

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 10 2011

The Court of Appeal handed down judgment on 9 November 2011 in relation to P, a man with cerebral palsy and Down’s Syndrome

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