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 […]
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 […]
Over the course of nearly two decades, one young woman has died in our prisons every ten weeks.
Chambers leads the Bar in 2010 rankings for Social Housing and Immigration
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 ranked as leading set in Children Law , Immigration, Crime, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Administrative and public law, and for Social Housing.
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 […]
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
and Barrister Robert White, in connection with "Spire Healthcare-Hospitals"
Inquest touching on the death of Kerry Louise Devereux
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
Draft statutory guidance on Social Housing allocations for local authorities in England.
Housing Law Handbook:
A Practical Guide by
Stephen Cottle, with Liz Davies, Adrian Berry, John Beckley, Desmond Rutledge, Marina Sergides and Adrian Marshall Williams.
Housing law issues can be wide-ranging and involve dealing with several areas of the
News The UK Border Agency has announced changes to the way it registers further submissions and initial in-country asylum applications. In future where someone whose appeal rights have been exhausted asks to have their claim re-examined owing to a change in their circumstances, the application will have to be made in person rather than by […]
The Latest Housing Law News Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour: on 13 October 2009 the Home Secretary announced the latest tranche of measures to be taken to control anti-social behaviour. They include an increased emphasis on prosecuting for breach of ASBOs. For the detailed announcement, click here.This "new drive on ASB" was signaled in a letter sent […]
Edward Grieves represented the Appellant in the very first case to be lodged in the newly formed Charity Tribunal.
