Richard Gordon QC, Brick Court Chambers, delivered the closing address at the LAG 2014 community care conference which took place on the 5 December in London. He has kindly agreed to let us post the speech on our blog. Richard was leading counsel for the three successful appellants in the Supreme Court in P v Cheshire West; P and Q v Surrey County Council. Download a copy of the addresshere.  This  is reproduced from the December issue of Community Care Law Reports.