Local authority can take property into account

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998South Lanarkshire council has won a judicial review which questioned its decision to charge an elderly woman for the full cost of nursing home care after she transferred ownership of her home to her granddaughter some 14 months before admission to a nursing home.Lord Philip ruled that South Lanarkshire…

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