Michael Bailey was found hanging in the segregation unit at HMP Rye Hill on 24 March 2005. His death was one of three controversial deaths at the privately-run prison in a fifteen month time period. Today the jury gave a damning verdict
A Garden Court Chambers Seminar – Possession proceedings and convention rights – more twists and turns – is being given by Jan Luba QC and Stephen Cottle on Wednesday 11 February 2009 from 18:30 to 20:00. For more details, click here. The Latest Housing Law News Preventing eviction of mortgage borrowers: on 3 February 2009 […]
News At a conference in London on Thursday the 5th February, the Refugee Council published the interim findings of its project working with vulnerable women who have claimed asylum in the UK. The report highlighted that sexual violence lay behind a very significant number of asylum claims made by women. However, equally disturbing are the […]
This week the House of Lords gave judgment in an important case about the provision of homelessness assistance to fathers separated from their children.
Garden Court Chambers is proud to announce the publication by Oxford University Press of the Blackstone's Guide to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. Edited by Maya Sikand, contributing authors are Kate Aubrey Johnson, Adrian Berry, Brenda Cam
The Latest Housing Law News Tolerated trespassers: it is now official. The provisions of the Housing & Regeneration Act 2008 which prevent the creation of more tolerated trespassers (and provide current tolerated trespassers with replacement tenancies) will come into effect on 6 April 2009. The date is included in the annual schedule of commencement dates […]
EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE Holiday pay Stringer v HMRC C 520/06Under the Working Time Directive, national legislation or practices can prevent workers from taking holiday while on sick leave. However, workers will still accrue holiday entitlement during their sick leave. They are entitled to take this holiday on returning to work or to be paid […]
NEWS 1. The Home Office have warned Universities and Colleges to sign up to the New Points System by February 2nd 2009 if they want to teach international students. The new points system goes live in March 2009. border and immigration agency website. More info 2. A report on children and Justice which calls for […]
The Latest Housing Law News Housing cases in the courts: among the amendments to be made by the 49th Update to the Civil Procedure Rules are several applicable to housing cases. From 6 April 2009, housing judicial review cases will be capable of issue and determination at court centres outside London. The detail is in […]
News The UK Border Agency has announced changes to the treatment of applications for private servants in diplomatic households following a commitment by Ministers that settlement provisions would be retained for those entering the United Kingdom (UK) under tier 5 of the points-based system. more info Cases In CL (Vietnam) v Secretary of State for […]
News (19 January 2009) The Thai military has taken into custody another group of asylum-seekers from Burma’s Rohingya minority. It comes amid accusations – denied by the military – that units set hundreds of refugees adrift at sea last month. A boat carrying 46 Rohingyas was intercepted this morning off an island in southern Thailand. […]
The Latest Housing Law News Legal Aid for Housing Cases: on 8 January 2009 the Legal Services Commission announced that it was extending to 31 March 2009 the deadline for holders of a Unified Civil Contract with a Housing category to bid for immediate allocation of additional Housing matter starts. For more details, click here. […]
News The UKBA have announced a new policy to take effect from 30 January 2009 so as not to automatically suspend removal in cases where immigrants lodge a second judicial review challenge to removal within three months of being refused permission, or withdrawing, a previous judicial review challenge to removal. Read more The UKBA has […]
Court of Appeal rejects appeal by Secretary of State
The Latest Housing Law News Rent Officers: Today (5 January 2009) sees a change in the rules for rent officer assessments in housing benefit and local housing allowance cases. Instead of considering rents in a "locality", officers will be looking at "broad rental market areas". For a copy of the regulations introducing this change, click […]
COURT OF APPEAL Part-time workers O’Brien v Department for Constitutional Affairs [2008] EWCA Civ 1448Part-time judges are not protected by the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 and Regulation 17 applies. Note: a case on the same point, Miller v Ministry of Justice, has been referred by a Tribunal to the ECJ, […]
News The UK Border Agency announced this week that it is not intending to remove the existing controls on Bulgarians and Romanians. Workers who do not qualify under the immigration rules continue to be restricted to the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS) and the Sector Based Scheme (SBS) for food processing. The Agency has also […]
The Latest Housing Law News Choice Based Letting: The Government has approved funding for another tranche of housing authorities and housing associations to work-up proposals for regional or sub-regional choice based letting schemes applicable to applicants for social housing. The schemes in this fourth round of bidding in some instances cover most of, or the […]
News Surprisingly, a few weeks after lifting the immigration exemption regarding the Child Convention, the Border Agency is withdrawing DP5/96 ("the seven year child concession") as of 9 December 2008. The concession set out the criteria to be applied when considering whether enforcement action should proceed or be initiated against parents of a child who […]
In a judgement handed down today the House of Lords held that the case law on "tolerated trespassers" did not apply to an assured tenant, because the tenancy was not terminated by a possession order until the moment of eviction or delivery up of
