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A disabled man who challenged drastic cuts to his care package had his case dismissed by the Court of Appeal yesterday.
In what could have been a landmark case benefiting thousands of disabled people across Britain, the court decided that Oxfordshire County Council did not act illegally when it slashed Luke Davey’s care by 42 per cent.
Mr Davey, who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, uses a wheelchair and is registered blind, argued that the council was in breach of the 2014 Care Act.
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
82 MPs and peers test incoming premier Andy Burnham’s intentions to reset government policy towards Israel
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue