Luke Clements was admitted as a solicitor in 1981. He specialises in public law particularly community care and human rights, having been involved in many cases before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights.

Luke is a Professor at Cardiff Law School, where he is Director of the Centre for Health and Social Care Law. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including the European Human Rights Law Review (Sweet & Maxwell), the Community Care Law Reports (Legal Action Group) and Disability and Society (Routledge).
Luke has drafted a number of Private Members Bills and 10 Minute Rule Bills including the Bills that became the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995 and the Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004.

Recent publications

• Carers and their Rights – the Law relating to carers (2009) London, Carers UK 3rd edn
• Individual Budgets and irrational exuberance (2008) Community Care Law Reports, 11, pp413-430. Pre-publication draft paper (2008)
• The UN Convention on the Rights of persons with Disabilities: a New Right to Independent Living? (2008) (with C Parker) in European Human Rights Law Review Issue 4 2. Pre-publication draft paper (2008)
• Disabled People and the Right to Life (2008) (jointly with Janet Read) Routledge, Oxford.
• Community Care & the Law London: (2007) (jointly with Pauline Thompson) Legal Action Group (951pp) 4th edn
• NHS Continuing Care and independent living (2007) (jointly with Paul Bowen) in Community Care Law Reports 10 CCLR September 2007 343 - 351.
• Human Rights Act: A Success Story? (2005) (jointly with Phil Thomas) Journal of Law and Society (Special edition) Spring 2005
• The Millennium blip: local authority responses to the Human Rights Act 1998 (2004) in Halliday & Schmidt, (eds)Human Rights Brought Home: Socio-Legal Studies of Human Rights in the National Context. [Hart Publishing]
• 'The Dog that didn't bark' (2004) in Lawson & Gooding, (eds) Disability Rights in Europe: From Theory to Practice. [Hart Publishing]
• Disabled People and European Human Rights (2003) [Policy Press]
  

Notable cases

• Smith v UK (1991) 14455/88: European Commission of Human Rights: A case concerning the rights of UK Gypsies
  
  
• R v Bexley LBC ex p B (1995) 3 CCLR 15: a case concerning the rights of disabled children to care services
• SP, DP & T v UK (1996) [1996] EHRLR 526: European Commission of Human Rights: A case concerning the rights of young children in municipal care
• MacGregor v UK (1997) 30548/96: European Commission of Human Rights: A case concerning sex and disability related discrimination
• Buckley v UK (1997) 23 EHRR 101: European Court of Human Rights: The first Roma case to be herd by the Strasbourg Court
• R v Powys County Council, ex p Hambidge (No.1) [1998] 1 FLR 643 Court of Appeal: a case concerning the legality of charging disabled people for home care services
• R v Brighton & Hove Council, ex p Marmont [1998] Times, January 15: a case concerning the rights of Travelling people to stopping places
• Scott v UK (2000) [2000] 1 FLR 958: European Court of Human Rights: A case concerning the rights of parents of children in municipal care
• R v Powys County Council, ex p Hambidge (No.2) (2000) (2000) 54 BMLR 133 Court of Appeal: a case concerning the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the rights of disabled people to community care services

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