Community Care

We specialise in challenging decisions by social and children’s services affecting clients’ accommodation needs, including assessment of needs, age assessments, looked-after children, children leaving care, migrant welfare and asylum support, no recourse to public funds cases, threats to separate children from their parents and other matters arising from the Children Act 1989 and the Care Act 2014.

Our team

Alan Masters

Call:1979
Ireland:1993

Martin Hodgson

Call:1980

James Presland

Call:1985

Nicholas Nicol

Call:1986

Yinka Adedeji

Call:1997

Patricia Tueje

Call:1999

Philip McLeish

Call:2003

Michael Marsh-Hyde

Call:2006

Eleri Griffiths

Call:2014

Daniel Grütters

Call:2017

Geeta Koska

Call:2018

Emma Turnbull

Call:2021

Frank Bowmaker

Call:2021

Isabel Bertschinger

Call:2021

Maria Liddiard

Call:2021

Liam Evans

Call:2023

Olivia Beach

Call:2022

Dharsha Jegatheeswaran

Call:2023
Canada:2016

Mirren Gidda

Call:2023

William Heath

Call:2024

News & Cases

WLHA v AA

Application for anti-social behaviour injunction dismissed.
Geeta Koska

NP v Lewisham London Borough Council

Application for judicial review challenging the defendant’s refusal to extend accommodation to the claimant, who was subject to “no recourse to public funds” in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Geeta Koska

What housing & community care lawyers can do during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Recording & notes from an intermediate level seminar by the Housing and Community Care Team.
Nicholas Nicol, Michael Marsh-Hyde