LAG Community Care Conference 2025
Schedule
Tue Oct 21 2025 at 09:30 am to 05:30 pm
Location
39 Essex Chambers | London, EN
About this Event
We would love you to attend LAG’s 2025 Community Care Conference.
We have a brilliant line-up of speakers who will inform and provide practical and tactical advice throughout the day. There will be a whistle-stop tour of the key community care cases over the last 12 months as well as a wide range of plenaries and workshops.
Topics include:
Health and Judicial Review Cases
Social Care for Disabled Children
Older People and Human Rights
Care Act for Migrants
At the Margins of the Mental Capacity Act
Health Justice Partnerships: What can they do for community care cases
Confirmed speakers:
Jamie Burton KC (Doughty Street Chambers), Stephen Cragg KC (Doughy Street Chambers), Bethan Harris (Garden Court Chambers), Tim Baldwin (Garden Court Chambers), Simon Cox (Doughty Street Chambers), Brian Dikoff (Migrants Organise), Serena Fasso (Wilson Solicitors), Ken Bluestone (Age UK), Rosa Thomas (Garden Court Chambers), Ollie Persey (Garden Court Chambers), Connor Johnston (Law Commission), Caroline Barrett (Rook Irwin Sweeney) and more to come!
We hope you will enjoy coming together on the day to share information and ideas. The conference will be in person at 39 Essex Chambers, Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1DD.
Refreshments will be provided throughout the day including lunch and networking drinks to follow.
Legal Action Group helps make the life-changing work of lawyers and advisers on the social justice frontline possible. Come and be part of the movement.
LAG Cancellation Policy:
If, for any reason, you need to cancel a booking, a cancellation fee will be applied.
If you cancel more than 28 days before the start date of the course, a cancellation fee of £30 will be charged. If you cancel between 28-14 days before the start date of the course, a cancellation fee of 50% of the total course fee will be charged. If you cancel within 14 days of the start date of the course, the full course fee is payable and no refund will be given.
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Agenda
?: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration
?: 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Welcome
?: 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Opening Keynote
?: 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
Health cases and judicial review
?: 11:40 AM - 11:55 AM
Break
?: 11:55 AM - 12:55 PM
Update on Key Community Care Law Cases in the last 12 months
?: 12:55 PM - 01:10 PM
Community Care Lawyers Group
?: 01:10 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch
?: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Breakout 1: At the margins of the Mental Capacity Act
?: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Breakout 2: Care Act for Migrants
?: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Breakout 3: Older people and human rights
?: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Breakout 4: Social care for disabled children and young people
?: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Break
?: 04:15 PM - 05:00 PM
Health Justice Partnerships: What can they do for community care cases
?: 05:15 PM - 05:30 PM
Closing remarks
Where is it happening?
39 Essex Chambers, 81 Chancery Lane, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00 to GBP 161.14
