Tim Spencer-Lane

Tim is a lawyer who specialises in mental capacity, mental health and social care law. He is the legal editor at Community Care Inform and senior lecturer at Kingston University.

At the Law Commission he led the reviews of adult social care, health and social care professional regulation and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. He currently works as a lawyer at the government legal department (Department of Health and Social Care) where he advises on mental capacity and mental health law.

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Court Report with Tim Spencer-Lane: care orders and supervision orders

Recorded 35 minute webinar where our legal editor, specialist lawyer Tim Spencer-Lane, shares what social workers need to know about care orders and supervision orders

Care proceedings and assessing risk of harm: Re T [2025] EWCA Civ 93