**** Special note: next Tuesday evening (18 October) in Leicester Jan Luba QC of Garden Court Chambers will be making a free presentation on Current Issues in Housing Law. The meeting is open to all housing practitioners. For the venue and other details, Email the organiser, Brian Hitchcock***** The Latest Housing Law News Evictions at […]
Cases Raki, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2011] EWHC 24216th October 2011Birtles J., found that the detention of a Moroccan man, pending his removal, for 4 years and 7 months was "self-evidently unreasonable". Click here to read the full judgement. RK (entitlement to represent: s.84) […]
Stephen Knafler QC in the European Court of Human Rights in Bah v United Kingdom (Application No. 56328/07, 27th September 2011).
Employment Law News Chancellor announces plans to transform Tribunal system The Chancellor George Osborne has pre-empted the government’s response to its consultation "Resolving workplace disputes" (which remains unpublished) by announcing to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester that the government intends to introduce a two year qualifying period for unfair dismissal, and issuing and hearing […]
Cases Bah v United Kingdom 56328/07 [2011] ECHR 1448 (27 September 2011) The European Court of Human Rights found that immigration status can amount to a ground of distinction for the purposes of Article 14, since it is legal rather than personal. Given the element of choice involved in immigration status, absent inability to return […]
The Latest Housing Law News A new National Housing Strategy: the Prime Minister has announced that the UK Government will shortly publish a new Housing Strategy for England. A key feature will be reform of the right to buy in social housing to encourage more purchases – in particular through an increase in discounts. On […]
Shereener Browne and Tim Baldwin have been nominated for this year's Bar Pro Bono Award.
Garden Court is pleased to report that Dexter Dias QC, who has recently returned from academic sabbatical, has won the Lopez-Rey Prize at Cambridge University for the highest Distinction (First Class) awarded by the Institute of Criminology in its MPhil d
On Monday 19 September the Irish Travellers on Dale Farm successfully obtained an emergency injunction in the High Court staying the planned evictions and preventing bailiffs from entering the site.
The Latest Housing Law News Homelessness: the figures for local authority activity on homelessness in England for the second quarter of 2011 reveal an overall 17% increase in acceptances of the main housing duty compared with last year (Housing Act 1996 Part 7 section 193). The number of acceptances based on loss of an assured […]
Garden Court Chambers is delighted to have been ranked as a first tier set in the prestigious 2011 Edition of the Legal 500. The Legal 500 publishes rankings of the leading barristers and sets of chambers in the UK, based on extensive research and from ta
Garden Court Chambers is this week providing on-call mediators at the Central London Civil Justice Centre, allowing litigants to explore the possibility of resolving their dispute through mediation.
News For the UKBA’s interim proposals for applying the CJEU’s judgment in Ruiz Zambrano (C34-09: see LB # 220) relating to ‘carers’ of British citizens, to read more, click here. Cases AA v United Kingdom (8000/08) [2011] ECHR 1345 (20 September 2011)The Strasbourg Court held that the deportation of a Nigerian citizen, who had arrived […]
Garden Court Chambers is delighted to learn that Courtenay Griffiths QC has been shortlisted as Crime Silk of the Year in the prestigious 2011 Chambers Bar Awards.
Members of the Garden Court Crime Team are currently defending four protesters from the UK Uncut movement on charges of criminal damage.
News More protection for Agency workers The Agency Worker Regulations 2010 come into force on 1 October 2011. This sees an end to a lengthy process to ensure greater protection for agency workers that started in 2008 with Directive 2008/104/EC. The legislation will offer greater protection to agency staff who will now be entitled to […]
News For the Immigration Minister’s latest proposals for reforming family based migration into the UK, click here. Cases R (on the application of Mrs BN) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWHC 2367 (Admin) (16 September 2011)In a lengthy judgment Stadlen J considered whether a fresh Article 8 human rights claim had […]
Cases Khaliq (entry clearance; para 321) Pakistan [2011] UKUT 350 (IAC) (09 September 2011)The Tribunal considered whether the phrase "application for leave" in the provisions governing cancellation of leave to enter includes leave to enter the United Kingdom at port, not simply the time the application for a visa is made. Noting that a person […]
Employment Law News Agency workers watch out? The Government has commissioned legal advice into whether they can reduce some of the protection offered by the EU Directive on Agency Workers. Statistics gathered in the past have shown that a disproportionate percentage of agency workers are women or from an ethnic minority as compared with the […]
Garden Court is extremely pleased to welcome Helen Foot back to Chambers. Helen returns from maternity leave to continue her practice in civil and immigration law.
