Professor Luke Clements
Position: Professor
School: Law
Tel: +44 (0)29 208 74360
Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74097
Email: ClementsLJ@cf.ac.uk
Ext: 74360
Secretary:
Antoinette Samuel
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Introduction
Luke Clements is a Professor at Cardiff Law School and a consultant solicitor specialising in public and human rights proceedings on behalf of socially excluded groups, primarily disabled people and Roma. He has conducted and advised on many cases before the Commission and Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg including the first Roma case to reach that court (Buckley v. UK 1996). Luke is a leading expert on UK community care law and the rights of disabled people to social and health care support and has been involved in the drafting of Private Members Bills relating to the rights of carers, notably the Bills that became the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995 and the Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004. He is on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals, including the European Human Rights Law Review (Sweet & Maxwell), Disability and Society (Routledge), the Journal of Social Care and Neurodisability (Pavilion), the Community Care Law Reports (Legal Action Group) and Social Care Law Today (Arden Davies Publishing). Luke's current research concerns the role of the law in both exacerbating and combating the social exclusion experienced by (in particular) disabled people and Gypsies.