Housing News: The Last Week On Monday 17 September 2007 Shelter released an analysis of the extent to which London Borough Councils were failing to meet targets on the provision of new affordable housing in their areas. Only 5 councils had produced more than 50% affordable homes among new-build housing. For the details click here […]
Barristers at Garden Court have strongly rejected proposals from the Legal Service Commission to implement cuts in the Specialist Support Contract funding
Housing News: The Last Week On Monday 10 September 2007 the latest homelessness statistics for England were published. They show that the numbers of applications and acceptances are still falling. There are almost 85,000 households in temporary accommodation. For the full details click here . The latest homelessness figures for Wales were published separately earlier […]
News The Home Secretary announced that Professor David Metcalf has been appointed as the Chair of the new Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). The MAC will provide evidence to ministers on where the economy needs migration and where it does not. The MAC will influence how many points a migrant needs to come Britain when the […]
The 2006 appeal turned on new evidence that, unknown to the defence at the time of trial, the main prosecution witness Darren Nicholls had done a deals to sell his story to a journalist and a TV producer, with the prospect of a feature film.
Caselaw Catch-Up The last three weeks of July 2007 saw a burst of important decisions in Housing cases. Readers may be tempted by the following short summaries of cases, not previously noted in this Bulletin, to take a look at the full judgments: Possession and Disability Discrimination. Court of Appeal decides that DDA can provide […]
David Watkinson recently highlighted the status of individual occupiers faced with ambiguities and inconsistencies in the law which typically lead to widespread injustices.
Consultation Conundrum Housing lawyers and advisers returning after a Summer break will find that time is fast running-out for responses to the most significant range of consultation exercises the sector has ever faced. Those probably most important to housing lawyers are "asterisked" below. The full list of upcoming deadlines and the topics is: * 10 […]
EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL Withdrawal of claim Silva-Douglas v London School of Economics UKEAT/0075/07/RNOnce withdrawal of a claim is notified to the Tribunal under Rule 25 of the Employment Tribunals Rules of Procedure 2004 it cannot be reversed, even if such an attempt is made a few hours later. Time limits Beasley v National Grid Electricity […]
News UK visas are now accepting all Iraqi passports for entry clearance applications to travel to the UK, following the Court of Appeal’s judgment in NA (Iraq), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs & Ors [2007] EWCA Civ 759. However they have stated that they may still […]
Stephanie Harrison and Stephen Simblet from Garden Court Chambers (together with Nick Blake QC) represented people and organisations opposed to expansion at Heathrow Airport in an application by the airport for an injunction prohibiting harassment and nui
COURT OF APPEAL Unauthorised deductions Luke v Stoke on Trent City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 761It was not necessary to imply a term into the Claimant’s contract that she could be required to work elsewhere which allowed the Respondent to stop paying her when she refused to do so. The Claimant had refused a reasonable […]
News The LSC has announced that the new fixed fees for civil legal aid cases will be introduced as planned from October 2007, following a High Court ruling on 27 July 2007, click here The Refugee Council has responded to the independent inquiry into disturbances at Harmondsworth and Campsfield detention centres. So has the Home […]
COURT OF SESSION Breach of contract Morrish v NTL Group Ltd [2007] CSIH 56Where a contract of employment expressly required 12 months’ notice of termination and did not include a PILON clause, one could not be implied. More info EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL Correction of decisions London Borough of Newham v Bone UKEAT/0243/07/CEAThe Tribunal erred in […]
We have prepared a comprehensive list of counsel in order to assist you with your bidding process. You will note that the information forwarded is compliant with the requirements of the Legal Services Commission. The deadline for applications to the Legal
The judge who presided over the inquest of Gareth Myatt, the only child to die in custody following restraint, wrote today to the Secretary of State for Justice that it would be 'wholly unforgivable and a double tragedy' if there was any delay in learning
LEGISLATION Amendments to the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Bill (Bill No. 3) are to be debated in its Committee State in the House of Lords on 17th and 19th July 2007. www.publications.parliament.uk CASE LAW JK (Democratic Republic of Congo) v Secretary of State for the Home Department CA (Civ Div) 12/07/2007Where an immigration judge was […]
Government & Legislation: The Last Week A flurry of new regulations on anti-social behaviour have been made including: * The Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation ofStrategy) Regulations 2007 SI 1830 (click here for a copy). * The Crime and Disorder (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2007 SI 1831 (click here for a copy) * The Crime […]
COURT OF APPEAL Equal pay South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Anderson & ors [2007] EWCA Civ 643Female learning support assistants and the male comparator, a road sweeper, were on the same point of the White Book scale, and were employed by the same employer at separate establishments at which common terms and conditions were […]
LEGISLATION Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill Part 11 (clauses 115-122) of the Bill provides for a new ‘special immigration status’. It will be seen that this new status is outside of the regimes of both: (1) ‘leave’ to enter or remain; (2) the various forms of temporary admission under Schedules 2-3 Immigration Act 1971. The […]
