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Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 26 November 2009

SOLD OUT! The Imperfect Triad Conference at LSE – 5th December

Shaken Baby Syndrome seminar hosted by Garden Court Chambers Criminal Team

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 24 November 2009

Issue 163 – 24th November 2009

News 1.Over 950,000 passengers have used state of the art facial recognition at border controls in the UK. Passengers use the self service gates which takes seconds to scan each passengers face against the digital photo recorded in their passports. If there is a match, the e- passport gates open to allow passengers entry into […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 23 November 2009

Oxford University Press launches “Forensic Mental Health – concepts, system and practice” at Garden Court Chambers

Garden Court Chambers is delighted to announce the publication of this important book with foreword by Helena Kennedy QC, featuring contributing author Nerida Harford-Bell of Garden Court's crime team. This seminal publication presents a penetrating and t

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 23 November 2009

Issue 158 – 23rd November 2009

The Latest Housing Law News Legal aid for Housing cases: the terms on which legal aid will be provided in Housing and other civil law casework from October 2010 were announced this week. The Legal Services Commission published the new Standard Civil Contract under which it will purchase such legal services. For a copy of […]

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 20 November 2009

Richard Harvey Appointed as Lead Counsel to Represent Dr. Radovan Karadžic

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has appointed Richard J. Harvey as lead counsel to represent Dr. Radovan Karadzic former President of Republika Srpska (1992-1996)

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 17 November 2009

Issue 162 – 17th November 2009

News As a prelude to the General Election debate, Gordon Brown made a speech last week outlining plans to tighten the UK’s immigration rules, by reducing the number of professions which can recruit from outside Europe and limiting the numbers coming in to Britain on student visas. Read more. Whilst the Migration Advisory Committee has […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 16 November 2009

Issue 157 – 16th November 2009

The Latest Housing Law News Possession proceedings: on 12 November 2009 possession proceedings statistics for England and Wales for the third quarter of 2009 were published. The provisional figures show increases in claims made and orders made in landlord possession proceedings and an increase in the number of mortgage possession claims leading to possession orders […]

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 13 November 2009

Dexter Dias QC addresses Annual Bar Conference on the alarming number of women dying in prison.

Over the course of nearly two decades, one young woman has died in our prisons every ten weeks.

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 12 November 2009

Garden Court Housing Team – Top Ranked Chambers UK 2010

Chambers leads the Bar in 2010 rankings for Social Housing and Immigration

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 9 November 2009

Issue 156 – 9th November 2009

The Latest Housing Law News Housing and anti-social behaviour: on 31 October 2009 the Prime Minister said "every single one of the most chaotic families in Britain will be subject to a family intervention project with clear rules and clear sanctions, if the rules are broken. Every time a young person breaches an anti-social behaviour […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 9 November 2009

Issue 73 – 9th November 2009

ECJ – sick leave Francisco Vicente Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA, ECJ case C-277/08The ECJ held that:"…… a worker who is on sick leave during a period of previously scheduled annual leave has the right, on his request and in order that he may actually use his annual leave, to take that leave during a […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 9 November 2009

Issue 161 – 9th November 2009

News The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) has launched a consultation on revising its guidance on competence for immigration advisors. Read more. Following the Home Secretary’s admission that the government has been ‘maladroit’ in its handling of immigration, various commentators have been calling for an open debate on the subject. Read more. According […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 2 November 2009

Issue 155 – 2nd November 2009

The Latest Housing Law News Recent Developments in Housing Law: it is hoped that readers of this Bulletin also subscribe to Legal Action magazine, not least to obtain access to the monthly article Recent Developments in Housing Law written by HHJ Nic Madge and Jan Luba QC. Much of the caselaw material used in those […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 2 November 2009

Issue 160 – 2nd November 2009

Cases Blake J in the Administrative Court in Karim (R on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 2714 (Admin) considered the administrative processing of "legacy" cases at the Home Office. He found that the policy that defined "seriously mishandled" cases as falling within the exceptional class requiring expedition […]

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 29 October 2009

Garden Court ‘First Tier’ Chambers in Legal 500

Garden Court Chambers ranked as leading set in Children Law , Immigration, Crime, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Administrative and public law, and for Social Housing.

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 29 October 2009

Issue 159 – 29th October

News A controversial article about the possibility that numbers of trafficked women are exaggerated entitled "prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic" by Nick Davies dated 20th October 2009. Read more. On 21st October 2009 the Migration Advisory Committee recommended adding teachers in special schools and skilled meat boners and trimmers to […]

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 28 October 2009

Chambers is delighted to announce publication of “Support for Asylum-seekers and other Migrants”

Support for Asylum-seekers and other Migrants is the only handbook focusing exclusively on the welfare and legal rights of asylum-seekers. It has now been expanded to cover the welfare needs of other migrants, in particular refused asylum-seekers at the e

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 27 October 2009

Fraud Warning – “Arfen” Chambers

and Barrister Robert White, in connection with "Spire Healthcare-Hospitals"

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 27 October 2009

Suicide at HMP Foston Hall: Jury finds death contributed to by neglect

Inquest touching on the death of Kerry Louise Devereux

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 26 October 2009

Fraud Alert!

Garden Court Chambers has information that a fraudster has been using Chambers' contact details for an internet scam. The correspondence refers to a barrister called Robert White and purports to be about a job offer from Spire Health Care Hospital UK. Any