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Eve Piffaretti

Blake Morgan LLP
Eve heads Blake Morgan LLP's Cardiff office and its public law team in Wales. She advises on wide range of Welsh public law issues with particular specialism in statutory interpretation of health & social care and regulatory law in Wales and other UK jurisdictions. Eve also has a particularly focus on human rights and equality, consultation and information law, mental capacity and mental health law. She also advises on safeguarding of adults at risk and children. Eve also has expertise in the existing and emerging Welsh legislation and policy as it applies to in health and social professionals.

Eve sits as a Legal Advisor to Investigation, Fitness to Practise and Suitability Committees of the Education Workforce Council. She also presents cases in relation to Social Workers and Social Care Workers on behalf of Social Care Wales and sits as a Legal Advisor to the Professional Conduct Panels of the Teaching Regulation Agency. This requires her to have detailed knowledge of case law applicable to professional conduct and fitness to practise processes. Eve also sits as a Legal Adviser to Statutory Approval Committees of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and advises the Human Tissue Authority.

Eve is the Co-ordinating Partner for t NHS Wales clients and speaks regularly at national conferences in relation to healthcare issues. She also chairs Cardiff Breakfast Club.

Eve is the co-author of Sweet and Maxwell's Mental Capacity Act Manual (Eight Edition) and co - editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Services and Child Care Law.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Welsh Panel

Qualified Year

  • 1993

Membership

  • Society of Authors
  • Wales Observatory on the Rights of the Child
  • National Mental Capacity Forum
  • National Advisory Panel- Barnardo's Cymru

Qualifications

  • LLB Hons (1990)
  • Law Society Finals (1991)
  • ISEB Certificate in Freedom of Information (2003)

Education

  • Cardiff University (1987 -1990)

1 Contributions by Eve Piffaretti

Public sector equality duty in Wales: specific duties, equality impact assessments, objectives, gender pay action plans, procurement and enforcement (Equality Act 2010 (Statutory Duties) (Wales) Regulations 2011)
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Public sector equality duty in Wales: specific duties, equality impact assessments, objectives, gender pay action plans, procurement and enforcement (Equality Act 2010 (Statutory Duties) (Wales) Regulations 2011)
The public sector equality duty (PSED) Set out in Part 11 of the Equality Act 2010 (ss 149–159), the public sector equality duty (PSED) comprises a general equality duty applying UK-wide to public bodies listed in Schedule 19 of the EqA 2010, alongside specific duties intended to support delivery of the general duty and enhance transparency. Although the general duty is identical across England, Wales and Scotland, the specific duties made under EqA 2010, s 153 vary. In Wales, listed public bodies must meet particular specific duties that sit alongside the UK-wide general duty. These specific duties bind listed Welsh bodies only. They do not extend to non-devolved public authorities operating in Wales. Under EqA 2010, s 149, the general duty requires public authorities and those exercising public functions to have 'due regard' to the need to: eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation, and any other behaviour prohibited by or under the EqA 2010 advance equality of opportunity between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and those who do not foster good relations between...
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