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Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 2 October 2008

Latest book from Garden Court Practitioners

Blackstone's Guide to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, will be published on 9th January 2009

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 29 September 2008

Issue 109 – 29th September 2008

Latest Housing Law News Tolerated trespassers: Before the relevant provisions of the Housing & Regeneration Act 2008 are brought into force, the Government needs to work out how they should be applied to those who were tolerated trespassers of local authorities when those councils sold their stock to housing associations. A consultation paper, inviting views […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 29 September 2008

Issue 108 – 29th September 2008

News The Home Secretary has announced the Government’s intention to lift the UK’s immigration reservation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The UK had initially entered its reservation when it ratified the Convention in 1991, restricting the rights of children who are subject to immigration control. More info The first […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 22 September 2008

Issue 108 – 22nd September 2008

Latest Housing Law News Housing Reform Green Paper: in its response to the report The Supply of Rented Housing, produced by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee, the government has given more details on the content of the forthcoming Housing Reform Green Paper. That will now set out proposals "to provide housing services and […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 22 September 2008

Issue 54 – 22nd September 2008

EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE Age Discrimination Age Concern England v UK Case C-388/07The Advocate General has decided that the UK government was not required to set out a specific list of the differences in treatment on the grounds of age which may be justified by reference to a legitimate aim under Regulation 3 Employment Equality […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 22 September 2008

Issue 107 – 22nd September 2008

News The UK Border Agency has published its code of practice for Tier 2 (sponsored skilled workers). Council of Europe’s anti-torture Committee has published its 18th General Report. Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria and Germany, have undertaken to review and improve the quality of their refugee status determination systems. Under a quality initiative […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 15 September 2008

Issue 107 – 15th September 2008

Latest Housing Law News Homelessness in England: the homelessness statistics for the second quarter of 2008 (April to June) were published on 11 September 2008. They show that although applications to local housing authorities dipped by 2% compared to the same quarter in 2007, acceptances were up 2%. For a copy of the statistical release […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 15 September 2008

Issue 106 – 15th September 2008

News On 11 September 2008 new versions of the guidance notes for Tier 1 (General), Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) and Tier 1 (Post-study Work) applications were released. A number of organisations and tests have been withdrawn from the list of approved English language test providers for tier 1 of the points-based system. More info. On 13 […]

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 12 September 2008

Leading family and child protection silks top ranked in 2009 Legal 500

Garden Court features strongly in all its specialist practice areas in the 2009 Legal 500, one of the world's largest legal referral guides with a track record of 16 years of contact with the European legal profession. Among top counsel commended for thei

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 11 September 2008

Airline plot: alleged ring-leader acquitted

Henry Blaxland QC and Hossien Zahir represented Mohammed Gulzar who was acquitted of all counts.

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 10 September 2008

NEW Human Trafficking for Sexual and Labour Exploitation Seminar

This new (free seminar) is aimed at legal representatives from all jurisdictions who wish to know more about this human rights abuse.

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 8 September 2008

Issue 106 – 8th September 2008

Latest Housing Law News Helping Mortgage Defaulters: the Government has released more details of the three new schemes to be operated by registered social landlords (RSLs) to help owners facing mortgage repossession claims. The web page Mortgage rescue measures outlines: the Shared equity scheme – the RSL provides an equity loan enabling the householders’ mortgage […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 8 September 2008

Issue 53 – 8th September 2008

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL Strike out Way v Powercraft Retail Ltd UKEAT/0217/08/MAAAn order striking out a claim or response cannot be made at a case management discussion. Waiver of privilege Tradition Securities & Futures SA v X & Y UKEAT/0202/08/MAAThe Tribunal had not erred in finding, in the context of an application to extend time for […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 8 September 2008

Issue 105 – 8th September 2008

News The Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is organising a hearing on "Private military and security firms and the erosion of the state monopoly on the use of force" in Paris on 10 September 2008 with the participation of parliamentarians from its 47 member states, experts and […]

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 2 September 2008

Issue 105 – 2nd September 2008

Latest Housing Law News Housing Allocation: the long-delayed new statutory Code of Guidance on Social Housing Allocation has just been published under Housing Act 1996 section 169. This further guidance – Allocation of Accommodation: Choice Based Lettings – Code of Guidance for Local Housing Authorities – provides information about the factors that local housing authorities […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 1 September 2008

Issue 104 – 1st September 2008

News In her Report on a full announced inspection of Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre (published Wednesday 27th August 2008), the HM Chief Inspector of Prisons wrote that the Inspectors had particular concerns about the safety of children: staff could do little to mitigate the damaging effects of their detention, the length of which often […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 25 August 2008

Issue 103 – 25th August 2008

News The government is reviewing the immigration appeals process, and there are proposals for a new appeals system that could be in place by June 2009, featuring a First-Tier and an Upper Tribunal to replace the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. The Upper Tribunal may take over much of immigration judicial review. More info In his […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 18 August 2008

Issue 102 – 18th August 2008

News The Secretary of State is encouraging employers to apply for a sponsor licence by the 1st October 2008 if they want to be have them in place in time for the opening of the skilled worker tier (tier 2) and the temporary worker tier (tier 5) under the point-based system at the end of […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 11 August 2008

Issue 104 – 11th August 2008

Latest Housing Law News Possession claims: the latest figures on the number of possession claims being made in county courts in England & Wales should have been released on 8 August 2008 but were hit by a computer problem and will now be published later this week. For the explanation given for the delay, click […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 11 August 2008

Issue 52 – 11th August 2008

EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE Disability discrimination Coleman v Attridge Law Case C-303/06The prohibition of direct discrimination and harassment laid down in Directive 2000/78 EC (Equal treatment in employment and occupation)is not limited only to people who are themselves disabled. Where an employer treats an employee who is not himself disabled less favourably than another employee […]