An updated one-day online study day looking at the barriers to healthcare and resultant health inequalities faced by neurodivergent patients and those with a learning disability in the ED.

By Daniel Cloake, 23rd September 2025 Editorial note: Judgment in this case has now been published: Re Carl Gardner, Deceased (Duration of Transparency Order). This blog is reprinted, with permissi…

To find out, Lily Isaacs posed as a 19-year-old called Joe. She was fed a diet of porn and misogynistic dating advice

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Bindmans – Court of Protection solicitors (1 x locum maternity cover for 12 months; 1 x permanent)

Justice is not a cloistered virtue; she must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny and respectful, even though outspoken, comments of ordinary men

Sara Ryan’s new book, Critical Health and Learning Disabilities , came with some serious trigger warnings. This, I was told, presented an entirely negative vision of the lives of people with learning...

She was the first female president of the supreme court, causing a ruckus when she ruled against Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament. Now she has written an insider’s take on the UK’s underfunded...

Law Commission issues recommendations to simplify 'unnecessarily complex' legal framework for disabled children

People with learning disabilities and autism die almost 20 years younger than the rest of the population.

Union Jacks and the crosses of St George have begun to appear on lampposts up and down the UK in recent days. Much of the...

We have an exciting opportunity for an emerging lawyer with exceptional writing and communication skills and a passion for fighting corruption and injustice,

By Celia Kitzinger, 29th July 2025 The aim of this blog is to promote a more realistic understanding, both for would-be observers and for court staff, lawyers and judges, of what it takes to observ…

Wes Streeting says there is a racism problem in the health service, where a quarter of black women say they’ve experienced discrimination

Establishing the relationship between staff and ward characteristics and patient safety incidents on adult mental health wards. BACKGROUND Around one in ten acute mental health hospital admissions …

Exclusive: Number of people receiving subsidised care has fallen far more quickly than the country’s disability rate, analysis finds

This report draws on the NCMD's unique data to investigate deaths among children with learning disabilities and autistic children.

Re AB (ADRT: Validity and Applicability) [2025] EWCOP 20 (T3) is a (rare) example of a court having to grapple with advance decisions to refuse medical treatment.  It is rare largely because ADRTs …