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Garden Court Chambers | Monday 11 September 2006

International Conflict Management Course

Garden Court to host second international conflict management course 11-16 September

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 11 September 2006

Issue 28 – 11th September

Government and Legislation On 4 September 2006 a new Homelessness Code of Guidance for local housing authorities in England came into effect. All decisions made last week must therefore have had regard to the new Code. The Code can be purchased for £18 from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). On 6 September […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 11 September 2006

Issue 16 – 11th September 2006

Cases Disability discrimination and sick pay O’Hanlon v The Commissioners for HM Revenue & Customs UKEAT/0109/06/MAA A disabled employee exhausted her sick pay due to disability-related absence and claimed a failure to make reasonable adjustments and disability-related discrimination. The EAT held the correct comparators in this case were those who were not disabled and did […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 11 September 2006

Issue 27 – 11th September 2006

News Thirty-two Iraqis were forcibly removed on 5 September despite concerns that they will face persecution upon their return. They were flown on military aircraft, which left an RAF base in the UK and headed for Kurdish-held Northern Iraq. Home Secretary, John Reid had already stated that he would ignore any applications for judicial review […]

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 6 September 2006

Advanced Workshop In Refugee Law Hosted by the Law Society Immigration Law Committee

An advanced workshop in refugee law Conducted by: Professor James Hathaway of the University of Michigan Law School on ?An examination of the requirement of alienage within Article 1A2 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees?

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 4 September 2006

ASBOs: a practitioner’s guide to defending Anti-social Behaviour Orders

ASBOs: a practitioner's guide to defending Anti-social Behaviour Orders

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 1 September 2006

What future for housing solicitors in the LSC’s strategy 2006-2001

THIS CONCERNS YOU!

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 31 August 2006

Employment seminar – Age Discrimination

Employment - Age Discrimination

Thursday 28th September 2006 6.30pm - 8.00pm
1.5 CPD hrs

Presented by Catrin Lewis and Rajeev Thacker

Garden Court Chambers | Saturday 26 August 2006

Iranian homosexual male wins important case

J v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2006)

The case of J was successfully appealed yesterday in the Court of Appeal which Femi Omere of Garden Court Chambers appeared in as junior counsel.

The case involves a homosexual from Iran who feared

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 14 August 2006

Issue 26 – 14th August 2006

News The Iranian government should immediately reverse its threat of prosecution against Iran’s most prominent independent human rights organisation, reported Human Rights Watch, referring to the interior ministry announcement that the Centre for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), co-founded by the 2003 Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, was an illegal organisation. Read more Legislation The […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 7 August 2006

Issue 25 – 7th August 2006

Domestic Law Court of Appeal S and Ors v Secretary of State [2006] EWCA Civ 1157 The statutory scheme of immigration control postulated that someone who successfully maintained that their removal would constitute a violation of their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 should be entitled to leave to remain for however […]

Garden Court Chambers | Saturday 5 August 2006

Mumia Abu Jamal Press Conference

On July 19th 2006 a press conference for Mumia Abu-Jamal took place at Garden Court Chambers organised by Legal Action for Women and Ian Macdonald QC .

After 24 years on Pennsylvania's death row, Mr Abu-Jamal, convicted in 1982 of killing a policeman, h

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 1 August 2006

Issue 15 – 1st August

Cases   Withdrawal of claim Khan v Heywood & Middleton Primary Care Trust [2006] EWCA 1087 The Court of Appeal, while criticising the drafting of the rule, held that an Employment Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to set aside a notice of withdrawal of a claim made under rule 25(2) of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 31 July 2006

Issue 27 – 31st July

Government and Legislation On 24 July 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) issued a new Homelessness Code of Guidance for local housing authorities in England. It takes effect on 4 September 2006. At 268 pages it will require careful consideration by authorities and advisers. Click Here to download a copy. On 25 […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 31 July 2006

Issue 24 – 31st July 2006

News Raging sectarian violence has pushed up the number of refugees in Iraq by 20,000 in the last 10 days alone, reported the migration ministry. Read more In Lebanon, the UN estimates that 800,000 Lebanese have been displaced by recent events, a huge number for a country of 3.5 million. Sami Haddad, the Lebanese minister […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 24 July 2006

Issue 26 – 24th July

Government and Legislation On 21 July 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) wrote to all Directors of Housing in local authorities and all Chief Executives of ALMOs about the problem of former secure tenants who have become tolerated trespassers. The letter (which attaches the new form N28A, the new parts of CPR […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 24 July 2006

Issue 23 – 24th July 2006

Home Office Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 1337 – July 2006 The Home Office announced a Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules to amend paragraph 364 to ‘make it clear that where a person is liable to deportation then the presumption shall be that the public interest requires deportation and that it will […]

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 20 July 2006

Appointment of two new QCs at Garden Court Chambers

Garden Court is delighted to announce the appointment of Jo Delahunty and Mark Muller to be Queen’s Counsel in the first round of appointments under the interim scheme in England and Wales. For the full list please link to the Department of Constitutional Affairs.

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 18 July 2006

Issue 25 – 18th July

Government & Legislation Today (17 July 2006), the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has announced that the Tenancy Deposit provisions of the Housing Act 2004 will not now be introduced until 6 April 2007. Click Here to see the DCLG Press Notice at: On 14 July 2006 the DCLG published a discussion paper […]

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 18 July 2006

Issue 14 – 18th July

CASES Harassment Majrowski v Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust [2006] UKHL 34 The House of Lords decides that an employer may be held vicariously liable in damages under section 3 Protection from Harassment Act 1997 for a course of conduct by one of its employees which amounts to harassment in breach of section 1 […]