Rachel Burley-Stower has been practising community care/public law for 12 years.

She originally joined Fisher Meredith as a Basic Welfare Benefits Adviser, however quickly recognised public law points in welfare benefits cases and ran with them. Her judicial review work against the London Borough of Lambeth contributed to the eventual removal of Capita Business Services from Lambeth's Housing and Council Tax Benefit Processing Department. She also worked as part of the legal team for Lord Savill and the Tribunal on The Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

Rachel now has a particular interest in community care matters relating to children in care, children leaving care, young offenders leaving institutions and adult prisoners returning to the community. In her view, these groups of people are owed a number of duties by Social Services which are continuously overlooked. She is proactive in her contact with organisations that are already assisting these groups and in building relationships with them in order to run cases on behalf of their clients.

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