Nottingham
Louise.Fisher@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)115 976 6552
Louise specialises in defending child protection claims against local authorities, including class actions; familiar with smaller group and individual cases; undertakes educational and personal injury work.
In ‘failure to remove’ claims, the claimant alleges abuse in the family home and asserts that the local authority should have known about the abuse and/or that they should have removed the claimant from the family home and into care earlier.
On 31 August 2022, the Court of Appeal handed down the Judgment in respect of the appeal case of HXA v Surrey County Council and YXA v Wolverhampton City Council [2022].
For decades claimant and defendant lawyers alike proceeded on the basis that it was at least hypothetically possible, depending on the facts of each case, for a local authority to owe children living at home with their parents a common law duty of care.
