***STOP PRESS: Tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday 13 November at 5pm), Jan Luba QC will be leading a free seminar on homelessness, housing allocation, and tenancy strategies in Coventry. To attend, and for venue details, Email Emmett.maginn@covlaw.org.uk The Latest Housing Law News Homelessness: last Friday (9 November 2012) the changes to homelessness law in England came into […]
News House of Commons home affairs select committee report is critical of UKBA backlog, finding that the number of outstanding asylum and immigration cases rose by 25,000 last month. To read further, click here. Cases Nirula, R (on the application of) v First-tier Tribunal and Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ […]
Adrian Berry has won an important case in the Court of Appeal confirming the direct applicability of EU Zambrano rights in housing, benefits, healthcare and community care cases.
Garden Court Housing Team receives top Chambers & Partners ranking The Garden Court Chambers Housing Team was delighted to learn that, once again, we have been ranked in Band 1 in the Chambers UK 2013 directory. The editors comment "Seen by many as the premier chambers representing tenants or the homeless, Garden Court has individuals […]
Garden Court Immigration Team receives top Chambers & Partners ranking The Garden Court Chambers Immigration Team was delighted to learn that, once again, we have been ranked in Band 1 in the Chambers UK 2013 directory. Furthermore, we remain the only set in London ranked in the top band for Immigration. The editors comment "Garden […]
Stephen Knafler QC returns from Nairobi, Kenya where he represented the International Senior Lawyer's Project at a seminar organised by the African Centre for International Legal and Policy Research ("CILPRA") and the International Association o
Following on from last week's Bar Award, we are once again delighted to have been ranked as a leading set by Chambers and Partners in the Chambers UK 2013 directory. Six of our teams are now ranked collectively, with 68 individual practitioner rankings.
Stephen Knafler QC and Shu Shin Luh have appeared for the claimant in a Court of Appeal Test case on immigration detention.
News HM Inspectorate of Prisons has published a report into conditions at the Cedars pre-departure accommodation for families facing removal from the UK. For more informaiton click here. The High Court granted injunctions barring the removal of a number of Tamils on a Charter flight due to fly last Tuesday, on the basis of claims […]
We are delighted to announce that Stephanie Harrison has won the Human Rights and Public Law Junior of the Year award, as awarded at the prestigious Chambers UK Bar Awards 2012.
The Latest Housing Law News Housing fraud: on 23 October 2012, the House of Commons expressed all-party support for the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Bill during a debate on authorising the public expenditure that may be incurred when it is enacted. For the debate (at column 891) click here. The Bill completed its Committee […]
Tom Wainwright secured a rare acquittal today in a criminal trial arising out of the "London Riots" in 2011. A jury at Wood Green Crown Court found the defendant not guilty of burglary and handling stolen goods.
Ali Bajwa QC and Deirdre Malone have today secured an important verdict at the inquest into the death of six members of the Kua family; a tragedy which has been described by the London Fire Brigade as the worst house fire they had seen in the last decade.
The Court of Appeal held today (in a majority 2:1 judgment), in Fitzroy George v Secretary of State for the Home Department that whilst the making of a deportation order invalidates a person's leave to remain, any subsequent revocation of the deportation
Adrian Berry has won an important Court of Appeal case on the procedural protection afforded by Article 8 ECHR where there are parallel family proceedings and immigration proceedings.
The Latest Housing Law News Last gasp on Legal Aid and Housing: at 12 noon today (22 October 2012) the deadline expires for the submission by housing lawyers and other housing advisers of bids for the new contracts to give LSC-funded legal aid, advice and assistance in Housing matters from April 2013. The same deadline […]
Cases EM (Eritrea) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 133617th October 2012Following NS v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EUECJ C-411/10, the test for opposing return under the Dublin II Regulations is that in the country of first arrival there are "systemic deficiencies in the […]
The High Court today, in an unprecedented development, upheld the dismissal of a claim for possession against an Introductory Tenant on the basis that eviction would infringe his human rights.
This week, an independent commission chaired by Jan Luba QC has presented a report to the Southwark London Borough Council on the future for council housing in that Borough.
Employment news Carillion workers accused of race discriminationWhite managers at a hospital in Swindon working for outsourcing firm Carillion, have been accused of race discrimination. The allegations are made in a claim filed at the Employment Tribunal. It is alleged that white managers demanded gifts and cash from workers of Goan origin before agreeing to […]
