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Legal Action Group, in collaboration with 39 Essex Chambers, invite you to LAG’s Community Care Conference 2026.

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.

We are also delighted to have Stephen Unwin, author of Beautiful Minds: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong, joining us to discuss his new book which examines changing attitudes towards people with learning disabilities.

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.

For more details and to book, see here

With a week to go, there are a few places still for this:

The keynote speech will be delivered by The Right Honourable Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales. Other presenters include:

Professor Penny Cooper, Barrister – ‘Clear and Understandable? A definition of ‘vulnerable’ and a framework for obtaining the best quality evidence’

Jake Kraft, Legal Aid Agency – ‘Avoiding the pitfalls in challenges under Section 21A to DOLS authorisations’

Sophy Miles, Barrister – ‘Legal Update 2016-17’

Floyd Porter, Chief Assessor of the MC Panel – ‘The new MCA accreditation’

Alex Ruck Keene, Barrister, Writer and Educator – ‘When past and present wishes collide’

Tim Spencer-Lane, The Law Commission – ‘The Law Commission’s review of the DoLS’

We hope you will join us for a stimulating day of debate and to meet like-minded colleagues. The venue is the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, London Islington. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. The conference fee is £120 for MHLA members; £180 for non-members.

Full information and online registration here: