Author: Professor Luke Clements

Luke Clements is the Cerebra Professor of Law and Social Justice at the School of Law, Leeds University. Luke is also a solicitor with Scott-Moncrieff & Associates Ltd. He has had conduct of many cases before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights. In 1996 he was the solicitor who took the first Roma case to reach the Strasbourg Court Buckley v. UK (1996) Luke’s academic research and litigation experience is primarily concerned with the rights of people who experience social exclusion, including disabled people and their carers. He has helped draft and promote a number of Parliamentary Bills aimed at improving the rights of people experiencing social exclusion – including Bills that became the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995 and the Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004. Luke’s Chair in Law is funded by the disabled children’s charity Cerebra

Columnists, Social care

Working Together to Safeguard Children: An important consultation

By Professor Luke Clements August 18, 2023 August 18, 2023

+++ Note this consultation closes on 6th September so don’t delay ++ A strong sense of despair and hopelessness comes over me whenever I am asked to respond to (yet …

parenting, Social care, special needs

Urgent change is needed to stop the institutional culture of parent-carer blaming

By Professor Luke Clements July 23, 2021 July 22, 2021

and Dr Ana Laura Aiello Disabled children and their families are one of the world’s most severely disadvantaged groups and the UK is no exception. Why should this be – …