News Activist wins legal aid battle in the High Court against legal aid cuts. To read more, click here. Noam Chomsky: My reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s death. 6 May 2011. To read more, click here. Detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been allowed first contact with family since his arrest more than 40 days […]
Garden Court Chambers is proud to announce that barrister Marc Willers is a finalist in the Legal Aid Barrister category of the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) awards.
Maya Sikand has secured a successful claim in R (A) v Lewisham Youth Court concerning a young person remanded in prison custody. The case was settled partly on the Divisional Court recognising the need to conform to the UN Convention on the Rights of the
The Latest Housing Law News Mortgage Default: a swathe of statistics relating to default on mortgage repayments were released last week, relating to the first three months of 2011. The Council of Mortgage Lenders’ figures show a 10% decline in repossessions over the same period last year. For the CML data, click here. HM Court […]
The Court of Appeal has allowed a claim for judicial review and ordered a fresh inquest following the death of a man in hospital from clostridium difficile.
Ian Peddie QC has successfully appealed a conviction for rape and the prosecution's application for a third re-trial
The Latest Housing Law News Reforming Housing Law: the House of Commons will be giving the Localism Bill further consideration in the week commencing 16 May 2011 when the Report and Third Reading stages are scheduled to take place. To view the amendments that have been tabled for discussion, click here. Accessing Housing Law Cases: […]
Cases Okafor & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 499Thomas LJ in the Court of Appeal reiterated that if a person no longer has a right to reside in the UK, the fact that the Secretary of State has not cancelled the document which initially granted that right cannot […]
Supreme Court Fixed-term workers Duncombe & Ors v Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families [2011] UKSC 14The renewal of short term contracts for teachers seconded to work in European Schools was objectively justified for the purposes of the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002. The teachers were employed to do […]
The Latest Housing Law News Updating Housing Information: in April 2011 the House of Commons Library produced five really useful briefing notes on Housing issues. They are:– Entitlement to social housing: persons from abroad (non-EEA). For a copy, click here. – Homelessness households in temporary accommodation (England). For a copy, click here. – Homelessness in […]
Stephen Knafler QC and Tim Baldwin appeared for the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, which finally won its long-running dispute with Buckinghamshire County Council in the Court of Appeal: R (Buckinghamshire CC) v Kingston upon Thames RBC [2011] EWCA
Stephen Knafler QC and Patrick Lewis represented the appellant in PM (Nicaragua) v SSHD (C5/2010/2672)
The Latest Housing Law News Updating Housing Law: the publishers of Defending Possession Proceedings (see below) have released a free downloadable update to several chapters of the current edition of the book to take account of recent cases such as Pinnock and Powell. To access the update, click here. Housing Benefit: on 19 April 2011 […]
News UK demands end to violence by Syrian authorities against pro democracy demonstrators and UK foreign secretary is considering "other measures" to be taken against Syria. To read further, click here. New student rules came into force on 21st April, 2011 affecting Tier IV students of points based system. The new Immigration rules include tougher […]
The Latest Housing Law News Housing Law Reform: the House of Commons Library has produced a useful summary of changes made to the Localism Bill by the Public Bill Committee in its Research Paper 11/32 Localism Bill: Committee Stage Report . The housing parts of the Bill are reviewed at pages 41-57. For a copy […]
Marc Willers attended the fourth Annual Meeting of the EU's Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP) on 13-14 April in Vienna on behalf of Garden Court Chambers.
News David Cameron launched the Conservative’s local election campaign last week with a speech on immigration. To read further, click here. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, called on European countries last week to adopt a more humane approach to migration. To read further, click here. The Poppy Project, which provides […]
A client of Anna Morris has been interviewed on Radio 4's Women's Hour about the problems faced by sex workers who experience violence in the course of their work.
The Latest Housing Law News Homes from offices and commercial premises: on 8 April 2011 the UK Government launched a consultation exercise on proposed changes to planning laws designed to make it easier for empty office blocks and other commercial premises to be converted for use as residential accommodation. For a copy of the consultation […]
News The coalition government’s new annual limit on non-EU worker migrants came into force on 6 April. To read further, click here. New ‘immigration fees’ came into force on 6 April. To read further, click here. To see The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2011, click here. The European Parliament has backed and amended the […]
