“Psychiatric hospitals must consider the children of those who are given compulsory mental health treatment, according to a health watchdog. The Mental Welfare Commission says most healthcare staff are unaware of their responsibilities to help parents to maintain contact with their children.”
BBC News, 7th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who beat his pregnant former fiancee to death causing the death of their unborn baby has been jailed for at least 27 years.”
The Guardian, 6th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two men have been jailed for drugging and raping vulnerable under-age girls they found walking the streets.”
BBC News, 6th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ministers are to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes along the Australian model with legislation this year, after becoming convinced that the branding is a key factor in why young people start to smoke.”
The Guardian, 5th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Part 3 of the Children and Families Bill 2013 (‘the Bill’) was intended to deliver ‘the biggest
reforms for 30 years’ for children and young people with SEN.”
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11 KBW, 5th March 2013
Source: www.11kbw.com
“The legislative framework governing the approach to children with special educational needs (‘SEN’) in England has remained broadly the same since the coming into force of Part 4 of the Education Act 1996 on 1st November 1996. However, on 18 March 2012, the Department for Education published a Green Paper, Support and Aspiration: A New Approach to Special Educational Needs and Disability, signalling an intention to review that framework. The intention to legislate in this field was reiterated in the Queen’s Speech on 9th May 2012, which was swiftly followed by the follow-up to the Green Paper, Progress and Next Steps, on 15 May 2012.”
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11 KBW, 5th March 2013
Source: www.11kbw.com
“A legal challenge has been launched on behalf of 10 disabled and vulnerable children against the government’s so-called ‘spare bedroom tax’, which is expected to lead to a reduction in benefits for hundreds of thousands of people because they have at least one unused room.”
The Guardian, 5th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Andrew Pack, care lawyer with Brighton & Hove City Council, considers the court’s powers to compel a local authority to meet the costs of a particular action.”
Family Law Week, 2nd March 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“A senior judge has made an important ruling in favour of transparency in the family courts.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Maeve O’Rourke, pupil barrister, of 4 Paper Buildings and Gwen Williams, Partner, Goodman Ray offer advice where parents are in dispute over where or how to dispose of their child’s remains.”
Family Law Week, 28th February 2013
Source: ww.familylawweek.co.uk
“Coroner says doctor made ‘wholly inadequate entries on the records that were clearly at odds with the evidence.’ ”
The Guardian, 28th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court, 27th February 2013
“Three men have been convicting of abducting a 13-year-old girl and forcing her to become their sex slave.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Joining us this week is Ben Emmerson QC, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism. As ‘drones’ – or unmanned aerial vehicles – are increasingly used by the United States to kill suspected terrorists in other nations, we look at the legal case for and against their use. And we ask: if they can legally be deployed in civilian areas in Yemen or Pakistan, could they also be used against targets in Britain? Plus: we look at the controversial European court rulings that stop illegal immigrants being deported if they are caring for children who are British citizens.”
BBC Law in Action, 26th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ben Boucher-Giles of Fountain Chambers considers the Supreme Court’s judgment in J (Children) and considers how it fits into the wider picture of findings as they relate to threshold.”
Family Law Week, 25th February 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.com
In re J (Children) (Care Proceedings: Threshold Criteria) [2013] UKSC 9; [2013] WLR (D) 74
“A real possibility that a parent had harmed a child in the past was not, by itself, sufficient to establish that some other child that he or she now had care of was ‘likely to suffer significant harm’ within the meaning of section 31(2)(a) of the Children Act 1989 so as to meet the threshold for initiating care proceedings in respect of that other child.”
WLR Daily, 20th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The government has backed down on the use of force on children and pregnant women it seeks to remove from the UK.”
The Guardian, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Contrary to the practice previously adopted, a judge’s power to reverse his or her decision at any time before the court order had been sealed was not reserved for exceptional circumstances. A carefully considered change of mind by the judge was permisssible in the interests of the overriding objective of dealing with a case justly.”
WLR Daily, 20th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The statutory defence in section 5 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 did not impose impossible demands on those who did acts in connection with the care or treatment of others who lacked capacity. It required no more than what was reasonable, practical and appropriate. What that entailed depended on all the circumstances.”
WLR Daily, 14th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (KA) v Essex County Council [2013] EWHC 43 (Admin); [2013] WLR (D) 60
Where an illegal entrant had been refused leave to remain but nevertheless had a substantive claim under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, for example to a family or private life in this country, that would found an appeal against removal directions if made, it was necessary in for a local authority to consider whether, on the facts, support should be provided under the Children Act 1989 in order to avoid a breach of those rights as part of the procedural protection afforded by the Convention.
WLR Daily, 18th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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