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A Law Firm For Life

If you require help and support with disability matters that require legal intervention, Irwin Mitchell's experience in this field is varied and comprehensive. Typically, we act in circumstances where disabled people have not been provided with appropriate health or social care services, or where elderly patients challenge continuing care assessments.

Experts In Disability Law

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 makes it unlawful to discriminate against people in respect of their disabilities in relation to:

Employment
Provision of goods and services
Education
Transport

We have extensive knowledge of the Disability Discrimination Act and its legal implications. We advise regularly on the Equality Duties introduced first in 2006 and have used them in varying disputes ranging from school closure to planning decisions and in cases concerning the capacity of learning-difficulty adults to marry or have sexual relations.

We are regularly instructed by the Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court (a government-appointed official) to look after the interests of adults who cannot make their own decisions about their social or healthcare provision.

Our lawyers deliver lectures and undertake cases in respect of the personalisation agenda and the Right for disabled people to Choice and Control.

We are able to investigate the availability of public funding (legal aid) or other means of funding such as Legal Expense Insurance.

Working With Irwin Mitchell

Irwin Mitchell is one of the UK's most successful and respected law firms. Offering expert legal guidance for individual clients.

We provide clear, straightforward advice and a professional, proactive service. When needed, we will fight fearlessly to protect your interests and those of your loved ones.

Many legal needs can be met as they arise or planned for in advance. Others are harder to anticipate. Whatever the circumstances, our commitment to our clients is simple - a law firm for life.

Further Information About Disability Law

For an initial discussion, with no obligation, call 0870 1500 100 or send us an online enquiry.

Select Related Client Stories

Irwin Mitchell Successfully Challenge Council Cuts

Irwin Mitchell has successfully challenged a Council’s failure to adequately assess a child’s needs and those of her mother and to provide community care services to meet her needs and those of her family.

Our client and her sister were born prematurely in 2009. Our client was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, Periventricular Leukomalacia and was registered blind. She was dependant upon others for all of her needs. Her mother suffered from painful back problems and was unable to push our client in her specially adapted buggy at the same time as pushing her sister in her own buggy. As a result, our client was unable to attend all of her medical appointments.

Both the Council and the Primary Care Trust were aware of the difficulties of providing care for the family and accepted that these needed to be addressed. However, they disputed which body was responsible for meeting our client’s needs. Insufficient steps were taken to find appropriate care for our client by either body and our client’s mother was not provided with respite provision.

Irwin Mitchell alleged that the Council had breached its duties to adequately assess our client’s needs pursuant to provisions of the Children Act 1989 and accompanying guidance. It was also alleged that the Defendant Council failed to adequately assess the needs of her mother as principal carer.

After a hearing in March 2011, the Council and Primary Care Trust completed a joint continuing care assessment. The result was that the Primary Care Trust agreed to provide overnight healthcare support on five nights per week and the Council agreed to provide a total of nine hours per week of social care support.

Our client’s mother commented: “Irwin Mitchell has changed our lives for the better and without them we would not be in the position we are in now with fantastic support.”

We have lawyers with the expertise and experience needed to help you. Choose from the list below to learn more about our experts in this area.

Name	Location	Job Title	Telephone
Yogi Amin	Sheffield	Partner	0870 1500 100
Andrew Lockley	Sheffield	Partner	0870 1500 100
Sarah Brumpton	Leeds	Associate	0113 394 6777
Mathieu Culverhouse	Manchester	Associate	0870 1500 100
John Dickinson	Sheffield	Associate	0870 1500 100
Alex Rook	London	Associate	0870 1500 100
Katriona Swan	Leeds	Associate	0113 218 6437
Anne-Marie Irwin	London	Solicitor	0207 421 3907
Melissa Sharp	Leeds, Sheffield	Solicitor	0870 1500 100
Polly Sweeney	Birmingham	Solicitor	0870 1500 100
Mhairi Walker	Sheffield	Solicitor	0870 1500 100