Sentences with phrase «age assessment»

R (Q) v Leicestershire County Council [2016] EWHC 2087 Challenge to Council's age assessment of asylum seeking young person.

It's a tricky business, but there is a process for establishing the age of someone who claims to be a child and is not believed; they should be referred to social services for a timely, sensitive and expert - led age assessment.

The committee also reviewed the evidence on what clinical skills are necessary for health care providers to safely perform the various components of abortion care, including pregnancy determination, counseling, gestational age assessment, medication dispensing, procedure performance, patient monitoring, and follow - up assessment and care.

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In addition, the Judge held that even if (contrary to his findings on the main ground of judicial review) the SSHD could lawfully detain AA on the basis of a reasonable belief that he was an adult, AA's detention was in any event unlawful from the date on which the SSHD received the local authority's age assessment confirming the Claimant to be a child.

Paul's experience and expertise in this area is in the fields of children's services (support and accommodation under sections 17 and 20 of the Children Act 1989), former relevant children under the 1989 Act, age assessment disputes, mental capacity / Court of Protection cases.

Jonathan has considerable experience of dealing with the full range of health and community care matters, including challenges to service reorganisations and funding decisions, human rights challenges, inter-authority disputes, challenges to the provision of services for adults and children and age assessment cases.

Such cases involve local authority age assessments, which are to be carried out according to the guidance set out in Merton [2003] EWHC 1689 (Admin).

R (S) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Oxfordshire County Council [2017] EWHC 1295 (Admin), [2017] 1 WLR 3641, QBD, May 26 2017 David acted for Oxfordshire County Council in this judicial review concerning age assessment and whether it was unlawful for the SSHD to detain pending transfer to a safe third country.

This case raised important issues about which local authority was responsible for a young person if they move areas after an age assessment has been completed.

Imogen regularly acts as sole counsel for unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their judicial review challenges of local authorities» «age assessments» which have found them to be over 18.

In community care he has fought judicial review claims regarding residential care and funding, age assessment, and cases raising issues as to mental health and capacity.

Imogen has acted as sole counsel for a number of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their successful judicial review challenges to local authorities» «age assessments» which found them to be over 18 years old.