Employment news Public sector equality duty In a speech to the CBI, David Cameron has announced plans to cut back on equality impact assessments. It appears that the government has no plans yet to amend section 149 Equality Act but is seeking rather to restrict the civil service practice of considering the potential equality impact […]
*** THIS WEEK’S IMPORTANT NEWS****The third edition of the Housing Allocation and Homelessness book written by Liz Davies and Jan Luba QC is published this week. For information on how to get the book, click here. The very first copies will be issued to delegates attending the three seminars that Jan and Liz are leading […]
News New immigration rules were announced, said to establish a more robust and clear criminality framework to assess immigration applications, recalculating the length of time, based on the length of sentence, before a deportation order will be revoked, introducing a re-entry ban for some foreign national offenders who have been removed from the UK as […]
Ali Naseem Bajwa QC and Stephanie Ward acted for a prisoner, labelled 'The Southwark Rapist'. The first person to receive a whole life order who had not been convicted of an offence of murder.
News Judicial Implementation of Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Europe, of which Nadine Finch of Garden Court is co-author, has now been published by UNICEF. Click here for more information. Cases R (Bushara) v Secretary of State for the Home DepartmentMr Ockelton sitting as a Deputy High Court […]
***LATE NEWS: This Tuesday afternoon (20 November) at 5pm, Jan Luba QC will be leading a free seminar on Human rights defences and possession claims in Nottingham. For venue details and to register to attend, please Email Cheryl Weston. ***STOP PRESS: We apologise to readers for the difficulties that they will have faced using the […]
Kirsten Heaven represents the family of anti-gun campaigner stabbed to death by mentally ill grandson who was sent home after a limited mental health assessment.
Employment news Government to extend flexible working rights and implement flexible parental leaveThe Government has announced in a response to its own previous consultation plans to enable mothers, from 2015, to end their maternity leave before its end and share some of it with their partner. The Government has also announced plans to extend the […]
***STOP PRESS: Tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday 13 November at 5pm), Jan Luba QC will be leading a free seminar on homelessness, housing allocation, and tenancy strategies in Coventry. To attend, and for venue details, Email Emmett.maginn@covlaw.org.uk The Latest Housing Law News Homelessness: last Friday (9 November 2012) the changes to homelessness law in England came into […]
News House of Commons home affairs select committee report is critical of UKBA backlog, finding that the number of outstanding asylum and immigration cases rose by 25,000 last month. To read further, click here. Cases Nirula, R (on the application of) v First-tier Tribunal and Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ […]
Adrian Berry has won an important case in the Court of Appeal confirming the direct applicability of EU Zambrano rights in housing, benefits, healthcare and community care cases.
Garden Court Housing Team receives top Chambers & Partners ranking The Garden Court Chambers Housing Team was delighted to learn that, once again, we have been ranked in Band 1 in the Chambers UK 2013 directory. The editors comment "Seen by many as the premier chambers representing tenants or the homeless, Garden Court has individuals […]
Garden Court Immigration Team receives top Chambers & Partners ranking The Garden Court Chambers Immigration Team was delighted to learn that, once again, we have been ranked in Band 1 in the Chambers UK 2013 directory. Furthermore, we remain the only set in London ranked in the top band for Immigration. The editors comment "Garden […]
Stephen Knafler QC returns from Nairobi, Kenya where he represented the International Senior Lawyer's Project at a seminar organised by the African Centre for International Legal and Policy Research ("CILPRA") and the International Association o
Following on from last week's Bar Award, we are once again delighted to have been ranked as a leading set by Chambers and Partners in the Chambers UK 2013 directory. Six of our teams are now ranked collectively, with 68 individual practitioner rankings.
Stephen Knafler QC and Shu Shin Luh have appeared for the claimant in a Court of Appeal Test case on immigration detention.
News HM Inspectorate of Prisons has published a report into conditions at the Cedars pre-departure accommodation for families facing removal from the UK. For more informaiton click here. The High Court granted injunctions barring the removal of a number of Tamils on a Charter flight due to fly last Tuesday, on the basis of claims […]
We are delighted to announce that Stephanie Harrison has won the Human Rights and Public Law Junior of the Year award, as awarded at the prestigious Chambers UK Bar Awards 2012.
The Latest Housing Law News Housing fraud: on 23 October 2012, the House of Commons expressed all-party support for the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Bill during a debate on authorising the public expenditure that may be incurred when it is enacted. For the debate (at column 891) click here. The Bill completed its Committee […]
Tom Wainwright secured a rare acquittal today in a criminal trial arising out of the "London Riots" in 2011. A jury at Wood Green Crown Court found the defendant not guilty of burglary and handling stolen goods.
