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We are delighted to present a summary of our Health, Care & Regulatory Law team's Lunchtime Education Webinar Programme for 2024.
Use the links below to navigate to webinar recordings of interest to you:
Domestic Homicide Reviews and your duties in relation to them
Reflecting on Children’s Social Care 2 years on from the national review
Safeguarding and Information Sharing in Health
Case Law Update – Mental Capacity Act 2005
Pet Owners, Protected Parties and Patients
Pregnancy, Labour and Post-Partum
Naughty, naughty - breaching orders in the Court of Protection
Sexual Relations, Equality and the Court of Protection
Mental Health in Education - Supporting the Child
Case Law Update - Mental Health Act 1983
Health inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
Experiences in the Coroners Court
Domestic Homicide Reviews and your duties in relation to them
22 February 2024
A Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) is a review into the circumstances around a death following domestic abuse. The purpose is to establish what can be learned from the death regarding the way in which local professionals and organisations work individually and together to safeguard victims.
Hannah Taylor was joined by Frank Mullane MBE, founder of Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) to consider the role of DHRs in learning, Home Office Quality Assurance, and the interface with inquests.
Reflecting on Children’s Social Care 2 years on from the national review
7 March 2024
In this session, Hannah Taylor hosted a panel of expert speakers who reflected on the progression of children’s social care following the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in May 2022 in the context of the Government’s strategy and response to its consultation on children’s social care: “Stable Homes, Built on Love” published in February 2023.
Panel of speakers:
- Dominic Luscombe, Delivery Director, IMPOWER Consulting
- Kate Dexter, Assistant Director for Family Help and High Needs, Norfolk County Council
- Connor Johnston, Law Commission
- Kirtpal Kaur Aujla, Partner at Bevan Brittan
Safeguarding and Information Sharing in Health
21 March 2024
Information sharing is essential for effective safeguarding. It is a key factor identified in many serious case reviews, where poor information sharing has resulted in missed opportunities to take action.
For this session, we were joined by Dr Michelle Sharma, a Named GP for Safeguarding Adults and Co-Chair of the National Network of Named GPs for Safeguarding, and Dr Ben Burrows, a Named GP for NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucester ICB.
Case Law Update – Mental Capacity Act 2005
26 April 2024
Rhys Hadden from Serjeants’ Inn Chambers considered:
- Key case law and important updates from the past 12 months
- Any updates on the revisions to the Code of Practice to the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Pet Owners, Protected Parties and Patients
2 May 2024
Recognising the important role that pets often play in a vulnerable person’s life, Ian Brownhill from 39 Essex Chambers considered the role and responsibilities of professionals and commissioners in relation to pets for those who lack capacity; who are deprived of their liberty and those who are detained under the Mental Health Act.
Pregnancy, Labour and Post-Partum
16th May 2024
There have been a number of cases in the Court of Protection that consider the legal issues with pregnancy, labour and the post-partum period where women are experiencing poor mental health. In this session, Scott Matthewson and Elizabeth Fox, both barristers from Serjeants’ Inn Chambers, considered:
- Legal issues including:
- consideration of the role of the Court of Protection
- consideration of the role of the Mental Health Act 1983
- when might anticipatory declarations be appropriate in this context?
- A summary of recent obstetric cases
- How the guidance in An NHS Trust & Others v FG [2014] EWCOP 30 applies today and the lessons we can learn from these cases
- Top tips for practitioners
Naughty, naughty - breaching orders in the Court of Protection
6th June 2024
Hannah Taylor was joined by Sophia Roper KC who considered what happens when orders in the Court of Protection are breached.
Sophia Roper KC, a barrister from Serjeants’ Inn Chambers discussed:
- The difference between an order, a declaration, an injunction and an undertaking in the Court of Protection
- What a penal notice is and what it means?
- The effect of breaching an order, a declaration, an injunction or an undertaking (with or without a penal notice) in the Court of Protection
- Potential sanctions, implications and committal hearings
Sexual Relations, Equality and the Court of Protection
25th July 2024
Hannah Taylor was joined by Ulele Burnham for this session, during which they considered some of the challenges when trying to balance the competing priorities of maximising autonomy whilst protecting vulnerable individuals in the context of sexual relations and through the prism of equality.
Mental Health in Education - Supporting the Child
3rd October 2024
Julia Jones was joined by Steve Broach KC, 39 Essex Chambers, and Laura Earnshaw, MyHappyMind, to consider how the mental health of children can be supported in education.
Case Law Update - Mental Health Act 1983
24th October 2024
Julia Jones was joined by Rhys Hadden from Serjeants’ Inn Chambers. Rhys considered key case law and important updates from the past 12 months relating to the Mental Health Act 1983.
International Transfers
7th November 2024
Julia Jones was joined by Emma Sutton KC, Serjeants' Inn Chambers, who reviewed the key cases and guidance when dealing with international transfers for people who lack capacity and/or children.
We covered:
- The role of an embassy
- How do we determine what the care regime might be for the person in the receiving country?
- Safeguarding matters
- Whose responsibility?
- Practical arrangements for the transfer
- Arranging translators
- Legal advice from the recipient country as to citizenship, benefit entitlement, health and social care provision – and any applications that need to be made consequent to that
- Travel costs
Health Inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
21st November 2024
Julia Jones was joined by Marc Willers KC, who considered the particular issues that the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the UK experience when accessing healthcare alongside consideration of discrimination and human rights and the obligations of public bodies.
Experiences in the Coroners Court
5th December 2024
Inquest specialist Samantha Minchin was joined by Valerie Charbit, Barrister at Red Lion Chambers and Assistant Coroner to West London Coroner’s Court.
Topics for discussion included:
- evidential management
- advocate competencies
- when independent expert evidence is required
- how many witnesses do you really need?
- Prevention of Future Deaths reports
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