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Webinar – Equality Act 2010 & ASB
October 23 @ 11:00 - 12:00
JOIN RHODRI THOMAS, KULJIT BHOGAL KC & DR DAMIAN GAMBLE
Rhodri Thomas is a partner at Sian Thomas, Daughter and Son Solicitors. Rhodri represents several housing associations across Wales as well as private landlords. Rhodri specialises in housing management and tenancy enforcement and has a wealth of experience in dealing with all aspects of housing related matters including anti-social behaviour, breaches of occupation contract and disrepair.
Kuljit Bhogal is a barrister with 25 years experience in local government and administrative/public law with a nationwide client base. In 2023 she became one of his Majesty’s King’s Counsel.
Kuljit is considered an expert in anti-social behaviour, public law defences and the Equality Act. Kuljit has a particular expertise in managing public space with the use of injunctions and Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) and drafted the first buffer zone providing protection to the services users of an abortion clinic. The model she created has been adopted in a number of areas UK wide.
She advises on all aspects of commercial and residential property work and provides practical and commercially sensible solutions to the problems faced by her clients and has a collaborative approach.
Kuljit is able to assist with drafting documents relating to decision making (such as reports, equality impact assessments and human rights assessments) as well as those required for litigation.
Kuljit’s hand-on approach means she is able to remove or limit the risk of legal challenge particularly when involved from an early stage.
Dr Gamble is a consultant forensic psychiatrist on Hadley Ward, a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Clinical Lead for the the Elgar Unit, a psychiatric unit in Worcester with three working age adult wards and emergency mental health crisis facilities. He is the Medical Psychotherapy Tutor for Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust and a member of the Medical Directorate of the Trust.
From 2006 to 2022 Dr Gamble was a consultant forensic psychiatrist at Llanarth Court Hospital near Abergavenny, the last four years as Medical Director.
Dr Gamble has a medicolegal practice providing independent psychiatric reports in criminal, family and civil cases. He prepares around 45 reports each year. He has been instructed as a single joint expert in family law cases (private and public), and has given evidence as an expert witness for prosecution and defence in criminal cases. He has provided independent expert witness evidence to Employment, Immigration, Housing and Mental Health Tribunals.
Dr Gamble lectures in forensic psychotherapy at Birmingham University.
My talk will consider how mental health problems can contribute to antisocial behaviour that in turn can cause significant challenges to social landlords who need to consider the needs of all their tenants. I will discuss a recent case I was involved with, in which a psychiatric assessment of the origins and nature of the tenant’s mental health problems helped the landlord deal compassionately and fairly with complaints about antisocial behaviour, to the benefit of the tenant and his neighbours.
Members Free
Non-Members £30.00 – You will be invoiced following registration