Webinars

Webinars on Demand

Welcome to Webinars on Demand, the new online training service from Local Government Lawyer and Public Law Today.

Webinars on Demand provides a comprehensive selection of up-to-date webinars across the full range of local government legal practice, delivered by leading practitioners - in private practice, at the Bar and in-house. Content is suitable for CPD training for solicitors, barristers and legal executives.

Online access to webinar content is free-of-charge, although in order to provide this content for free registration for each course is required to enable presenters to see who has viewed their material. DVD copies of presentations are also available to purchase for £75 + VAT per course. Most courses will also enable you download a copy of the Powerpoint presentation; many also have more comprehensive background papers and other materials available for download.

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The current catalogue, including full descriptions and short previews of courses, is below. To view a course, click on the book now button and you will be taken to a registration form. On completion you will taken to the webinar page. If you would like to view the course at a later date without going through the registration process again, please keep a copy of the web address for the page.

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Adult Social Services

Brexit, Social Care and Housing - 39 Essex Chambers

With millions of EU and EEA nationals resident in Britain, the UK’s impending withdrawal from the European Union will have a significant effect on the local authorities’ obligations to citizens of other European countries.

Local Government Law Update 2016 - 4-5 Gray's Inn Square

Recorded in April 2016, leading barrister Richard Clayton QC outlines and analyses the key local government cases of the preceding 12 months across a range of disciplines. Includes a comprehensive downloadable paper.

Child Protection

Brexit, Social Care and Housing - 39 Essex Chambers

Non-Attendance Prosecutions - FTB

This presentation analyses the implications of the High Court’s decision in Isle of Wight Council v Platt [2016] EWHC 1283 (Admin) to uphold a Magistrates’ Court decision to reject the prosecution of a parent who took a child out of school during term-time.

Education

Education Case Law Update - FTB

Caroline Daly and David Graham round up the year’s significant education law decisions, including key cases school transport, gender separation, the quality of education due to SEN pupils and the approach to take where a young person lacks capacity.

Grammar Schools: What does the future hold?

Following the government’s announcement of its plans to enable a new wave of selective schools, Sarah Sackman looks at the current legal framework on selection in state sector and expansion of grammars, the government’s green paper Schools that Work for Everyone and identifies potential areas of litigation.

Local Government Law Update 2016 - 4-5 Gray's Inn Square

A toolkit for SEN tribunal success - FTB

This presentation provides practical advice for education authority lawyers and officers on how best to approach SEN Tribunal hearings.

Non-Attendance Prosecutions - FTB

Governance and Standards

The Importance of Judicial Review - University of Essex

This presentation draws on legal and empirically based research on the use and effects of judicial review (JR) to consider why and how this process matters to local authorities and whether the process improves the quality of decision-making.

Governance changes introduced by the Localism Act 2011 - Cornerstone Barristers

This webinar looks at key elements of the Localism Act 2011 as they affect and reform the governance of local authorities, including the General Power of Competence, the Standards Regime, community empowerment, elected mayors and assets of community value.

Governance for Local Authorities - Cornerstone Barristers

This webinar provides an overview of the governance structures of local authorities, their legal underpinnings and the way that they function in practice.

Delegation of Functions - Cornerstone Barristers

What problems can local authorities encounter with their schemes of delegation? And what to do if things go wrong? Matt Hutchings looks at the case law.

Local Government Law Update 2016 - 4-5 Gray's Inn Square

Planning

Brexit, planning and environmental law - 39 Essex Chambers

This webinar assesses how planning and environmental law and related areas may be affected by the UK’s exit from the European Union.

Local Government Law Update 2016 - 4-5 Gray's Inn Square

Bringing Forward Development - 39 Essex Chambers

Will forthcoming changes to the NPPF, permitted development rights and the Housing and Development bill shift power towards or away from Local Planning Authorities?

Old and New Means of Development - 39 Essex Chambers

In three parts, this course looks at the various measures being introduced by the Housing and Planning Bill to make development happen beyond the conventional planning permission system: Development Consent Orders, Permission in Principle, Hybrid Bills and Compulsory Purchase.