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Garden Court Chambers | Sunday 1 October 2006

Seminar Programme Autumn/Winter 2006/07

This is the latest seminar programme from Garden Court Chambers.

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 26 September 2006

Issue 17 – 26th September 2006

CASES Reasons Balfour Beatty v Wilcox [2006] EWCA Civ 1240 The Appellant employers appealed the finding of the Employment Tribunal that a TUPE transfer had taken place on the basis that, among other things, its analysis of the evidence and failure to address specific arguments made its decision defective for a failure to give proper […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 25 September 2006

Homelessness ‘shambles’ condemned by Housing Specialists

The government's handling of Homelessness policy has this week been described as a "shambles" by two leading housing law specialists from Garden Court Chambers.

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 25 September 2006

Judges quash demonstrators’ Asbos

Ten people who demonstrated against the bi-annual DSEI Arms Fair held in London's docklands by climbing on to or attempting to climb on to DLR and others trains in September last year have won their appeals against sentence (for obstructing the railway) w

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 25 September 2006

Issue 30 – 25th September

Government and Legislation On 18 September 2006 the government laid the Persons Subject toImmigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) Order 2006 SI 2521 which comes into force on 9 October. It deals with exceptions to the prohibition on access to council housing for those subject to immigration control who are outside the normal […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 25 September 2006

Issue 29 – 25th September 2006

Legislation The Refugee or Person in need of International Protection (Qualification) Regulations 2006, SI 2006/2525, laid before Parliament on 18 September 2006 and coming into force on 9 October 2006, transpose the Qualification Directive EC/2004/83 into domestic law. Read more Case Law EctHR Moser v Austria, 12643/02, 21 September 2006: the transfer of custody of […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 18 September 2006

Issue 29 – 18th September

Government and Legislation On 13 September 2006 the government announced that the requirement to produce a Homelessness Strategy would shortly be removed from 4-star and 3-star local housing authorities: see Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) Press Release 94/06 The obligation has already been lifted from "excellent" authorities in England and the extention to […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 18 September 2006

Issue 28 – 18th September 2006

News URGENT CALL: The Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children’s Project is under threat of Closure Unless further funding can be obtained imminently the Project will be shut down. Find out what can be done to save the project. Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules Cm 6918 A new ‘Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules’, Command […]

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