Speaker: Safda Mahmood
Intermediate/Update Level – Competence – B – Technical Legal Practice
About the course
The course will encompass a comprehensive look at the key case law and legislative developments across aspects of public children law and adoption. This will be an interactive seminar with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to analyse key themes and case law throughout the day. Some of the key areas to be covered will be:
- Interim Care and Removal - Key Developments
- Vaccinations and Parental Responsibility
- Contact/ Family Time and Assessments
- Instructing Experts
- Intermediaries, Cognitive Assessments and Capacity
- Placement Orders and Leave to oppose Adoption Orders
- Secure Accommodation and Deprivation of Liberty Orders – Key Developments
- Use of Inherent Jurisdiction
- Fact Findings Hearings and Judgments
- Use of FDAC and Court Security
- Police Disclosure
- Reporting Pilot and Practice Direction Updates
- Case Law Update
Who is this course for?
This course will be of benefit to Chartered Legal Executives, Solicitors, Trainees and support staff. This course will also benefit to advisers who are unsure about, this area of law and for practitioners in children law who seek an update on current law and practice.
You will learn
- An understanding of the key issues surrounding public children law and adoption matters for practitioners
- An update on key legislative and case law developments
- An understanding of developments in public children law and adoption, so as to apply these to your practice, whether in private practice or local authority.
Speaker Details
This day course will be led by Safda Mahmood, who is a Senior Solicitor and Advocate in a Local Authority, as well as a nationally recognised Professional Development provider. Safda has practiced and lectured in Family Law for over 29 years and is on the Law Society Children Law Accredited Panel, specialising in Children and Adoption Law. As an author, he has written for various publications, such as Jordans’ Family Law Journal, The Legal Executives Journal, Solicitors Journal and the Law Society and Local Government Bulletin. Safda has also co-updated the title ‘Child Care and Protection: Law and Practice: Fifth Edition and is the Editor of the updated 6th edition of 2019 as well as the Children Law Handbook, 2021, by the Law Society, and Special Guardianship and Adoption Law Handbook, 2023, by the Law Society.
Booking
| Course Ref 2: £169.00 + VAT per delegate | Discount – if booked with course 3 = £232.00 + VAT in total |
| Course Ref 3: £95.00 + VAT per delegate | Discount – if booked with course 4 = £169.00 + VAT in total |
| Course Ref 4: £95.00 + VAT per delegate | Discount – if booked with course 3 = £169.00 + VAT in total |
Discount – if booking all 3 courses = £299.00 + VAT in total
Full joining instructions will be provided to delegates 1 week before each course date.
Lunch: Provided if a full day’s course is booked.
Discounts also awarded for multiple delegate bookings of 3 or more – email requests to sillstraining@sillslegal.co.uk
Terms & Conditions
- Sills & Betteridge LLP will send you confirmation of your booking by email or post within 2 days of receipt of this form. A proforma will be sent to your accounts department. Once paid, you shall be sent a receipted VAT invoice.
- The amount due on any proforma is payable in full within 30 days save that you may cancel a booking provided you give notice at least 10 working days’ prior to the date of the conference. In such circumstances you will receive a full refund less an administration charge of £25.00 (plus VAT) per delegate.
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Limitation of Liability
- Sills & Betteridge LLP accepts no liability in respect of any losses both direct and/or indirect if for any reason the conference does not take place. Sills & Betteridge LLP reserves the right to vary or cancel a conference at any time. The total extent of Sills & Betteridge LLP’s liability under this contract is limited to the price paid by you to Sills & Betteridge LLP for attendance at the conference.
- Sills & Betteridge LLP and/or its presenter(s) shall not be liable in breach of contract, negligence or otherwise for any damages, costs, expenses and/or other losses (both direct and/or indirect) incurred by any person acting or omitting to act in reliance on the conference material or the presentation of the conference as a consequence of or in connection with any error or omission in the conference material or its presentation.
