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Neil Allen

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Neil Allen

Call to the bar 1999 Middle Temple
Areas of practice mental health & incapacity
court of protection
public & administrative law
employment
Education LLB (Hons), University of Manchester
Profile PRACTICE

Neil practises in mental health and incapacity law with expertise in:

  • Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
  • Financial, property and health and welfare matters in the Court of Protection
  • The detention of restricted and unrestricted forensic patients
  • The provision of psychiatric treatment to formal patients
  • First-tier tribunals (Mental Health) and Upper tribunal work generally
  • Judicial review and private law avenues of redress

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Neil also practises and accepts public access work in employment law with particular experience in the following areas:

  • Unfair, constructive and wrongful dismissal
  • Employment status – particularly in relation to agency workers
  • Equal pay claims and unlawful deductions from wages
  • Redundancy
  • All forms of discrimination (including county court matters involving political parties)
  • Occupational stress/bullying/harassment
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Privacy

EXPERIENCE

In addition to his independent practice, he lectures in his field of expertise at the University of Manchester and provides training in the field to medical practitioners and social workers. He also provides pro bono advice in his capacity as deputy director to Manchester’s Legal Advice Centre.

PUBLICATIONS

REPORTED CASES

R (L and Others) v Manchester City Council [2001] EWHC Admin 707; [2002] 1 FLR 43; [2002] 5 CCL Rep 268; [2002] ACD 45; [2002] Fam. Law 13; The Times, 10 December 2001; 2001 WL 1476308

One of the most substantial Court of Protection decisions so far - fully reported. G v E & A Local Authority & F (2010) EWHC 621
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July 30th, 2010

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July 19th, 2010

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R v. Magro and Others – On the 8 July 2010 the Court of Appeal, of a five judge constitution, delivered a judgement implicitly disagreeing with the reasoning and the decision of a three judge constitution in R v. Clarke [2009] EWCA Crim 1074.  However, in deference to the doctrine of precedence, the Court declared itself bound by the decision in Clarke, leaving it to the Supreme Court to consider if Clarke was wrongly decided.

The Court of Appeal’s reasoning in Magro clearly suggested that a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 may be made at the time of making an order of Conditional or Absolute Discharge.

July 5th, 2010

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On 2 July 2010 Mohammed Khalil successfully appealed the sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection passed upon him by the Crown Court sitting at Bolton for offences of Causing Grievous Bodily Harm with Intent and Possession of a Firearm with Intent. The Court of Appeal substituted a sentence of 9 ½ years imprisonment with an extension of licence for 3 years. He was represented by Ahmed Nadim.

The Court of Appeal re-affirmed its decision in Attorney General’s Reference No.55 of 2008 by confirming the discretionary nature of sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection. It was described as, apart from life imprisonment, the most draconian sentence available to a court and as such it is sentence of last, but one resort.

July 2nd, 2010

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