Campaigning care home lawyer cleared of misconduct
A lawyer who worked to prevent the closure of local authority care homes has been cleared of bringing her proffession into disrepute. Yvonne Cossack challenged home closures on the grounds that this would cause unreasonable distress to residents, claiming that in many cases this would have lead to early deaths. She was accused of breaching proffessional standards by taking up cases on behalf of residents without having been instructed by them to do so.
After opposing the closure of a care home within his constituency, Cossak was supported at the hearing by Alan Johnson MP after she succesfuly prevented the closure of a care home in hull. Pensioner groups and grateful clients also supported her case, which was brought by Local Authorities.
Read the full Yvonne Hossack, laywer story at the Telegraph.
