In this webinar, Christine Cooper, Max Thorowgood, Rebecca Davies and Harrison Engler will discuss the challenges local authorities face when recovering community care fees and debts, and how best to deal with them.
The webinar will discuss the evidence required for fee recovery and consider:
- deferred payment agreements and s69(2) of the Care Act 2014
- limitations of recovering fees
- recovery from personal representatives
Who is the webinar for?
If you review or consider community care costs and debts under the Care Act 2014, this practical interactive session is for you.
Date and time
Tuesday 4 March: 1pm-1.45pm
Format
The webinar will be moderated by Christine Cooper and will run for approximately 45 minutes, including time for questions.
How do you register for the webinar?
Sign up for our free webinar via our event registration form.
Presenters
- Christine Cooper: Christine is an acknowledged expert in the field of charging for local authority residential care and community care services and acts for and against local authorities and care providers. She is regularly instructed in disputes between local authorities and NHS bodies about funding for care. Christine is an author of LexisNexis Loose-leaf Finance and Law for the Older Client. She also contributed to Dementia and the Law, writing the chapters on ‘property and affairs in the Court of Protection’ and ‘funding for care services’.
- Max Thorowgood: Max specialises in property, probate and inheritance disputes. He regularly handles disputes about debt recovery as well as partnership and insolvency disputes. Claims of professional negligence by solicitors, surveyors and others dealing in commercial and residential property often arise out of the underlying probate and inheritance disputes, which too form a significant part of Max’s practice.
- Rebecca Davies: Rebecca focuses on community care, public and private law family proceedings and matrimonial finance, as well as public law and Court of Protection cases. Her extensive experience in family and Court of Protection law gives her a unique insight into inter- and intra-agency working which proves invaluable when addressing the complex legal and publicity issues which can arise from such cases.
- Harrison Engler : Harrison broad practice spans public law, housing, employment, civil and family law. He has particular experience in a range of civil matters, including contractual disputes, debt recovery, and procedural applications. He also appears in the Court of Protection and in cases relating to the appointment of personal representatives and contentious probate. He recently delivered a seminar, with other Field Court barristers, on how duties under the Care Act 2014 and the Housing Act 1996 interact in terms of accommodation provided under each act.