Tim Spencer-Lane

Tim is a lawyer who specialises in mental capacity, mental health and social care law. He is the legal editor at Community Care Inform and senior lecturer at Kingston University.

At the Law Commission he led the reviews of adult social care, health and social care professional regulation and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. He currently works as a lawyer at the government legal department (Department of Health and Social Care) where he advises on mental capacity and mental health law.

All posts by Tim Spencer-Lane

Circumcision, parental responsibility, cultural identity and the welfare of the child: G [2024] EWHC 2363 (Fam)

Emergency protection powers under the Children Act 1989

Local authority liability for kinship care foster carers: DJ v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 841

Care orders and supervision orders: guide to the law

A comprehensive guide for social worker to the legislation and case law governing care and supervision orders under section 31 of the Children Act 1989

Care orders and local authorities consenting to a deprivation of liberty: Re J [2024] EWHC 1690 (Fam)

Capacity, sexual relations and executive functioning: A Local Authority v ZX [2024] EWCOP 30

Child arrangements proceedings and domestic abuse: SR v RT [2024] EWFC 103 (B)

Utilising the Family Drug and Alcohol Court in domestic abuse cases: London Borough A v A & Ors [2024] EWFC 46

Child sexual exploitation: a guide to the case law

A guide to civil law routes to addressing child sexual exploitation, including the use of injunctions, secure accommodation orders, reporting restrictions, deprivation of liberty and the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court.

Disabled children, short breaks and section 20: R (TS) v Hackney [2023] EWHC 3063 (Admin)