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Half of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards cases breaching legal timescales
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Six ways councils are trying to combat a shortage of best interests assessors
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The best interests assessor: ‘We need the resources to make this massively positive Dols ruling a reality’
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A lawyer’s view on the legal risks to councils from breaching Dols case timescales
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‘The Supreme Court Dols ruling was right but an impossible workload is diluting advocacy’
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