Housing Law News Welfare reform and social housing: every housing benefit (HB) authority is being awarded additional central government funding to meet some of the administrative costs of the impact of the various reforms to HB being introduced in 2013. This includes £4m in respect of the impact of the social housing size criteria (‘bedroom […]
News For the highly critical report of the cross-party parliamentary inquiry into asylum support for children and young people and the Children’s Society’s comments on the same, click here. Immigration RulesNew changes to the Immigration Rules by way of HC943 came into effect on 31 January 2013 making changes to the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) route. […]
Employment news More blacklisting uncovered At least 111 workers from Wales were on an illegal blacklist which looked at the backgrounds of thousands of construction workers across the UK. The Information Commissioner’s office uncovered the list which included the names of people with union and campaign group affiliation. This is the latest installment in this […]
News A new study by the European Network for Technical Co-operation on the Application of the Dublin II Regulation found vast divergences in the way EU Member States apply the instrument with some failing to have adequate regard to the humanitarian clause or the provisions maintaining family membership. Meanwhile the UN Working Group on Arbitrary […]
Housing Law News Fraud in Social Housing: the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013 received Royal Assent on 31 January 2013. For a copy of the Act, click here. The Act will be brought into force by ministerial order on a date to be appointed. Welfare reform and social housing: the National Housing Federation […]
In a landmark decision, after a remittal by the Court of Appeal, in In the matter of an application by JR 47 for judicial review, Mr Justice McCloskey granted declarations establishing that, for the first time in Northern Ireland, there was a statutory du
Garden Court Chambers is delighted to announce that Stephen Knafler QC has been elected as a new Joint Heads of Chambers. In accordance with Garden Court's democratic constitution, he was elected by fellow members of Chambers at this week's AGM. He joins
Thousands of asylum-seeking children and their families are being forced into severe poverty a woefully inadequate asylum support system, a parliamentary inquiry revealed today. The Inquiry into Asylum Support for Children and Young People, whose panel in
Garden Court Chambers is delighted to host an exhibition of works by Donald Grayson curated by Matthew Meadows.
The Bar Standards Board (BSB), the regulatory body for barristers in England and Wales, has agreed that the new Standard Contractual Terms will take effect on 31 January 2013.
**********This week: on Friday you could be listening to Garden Court’s Bethan Harris and Jan Luba QC – with Andy Gale, Stephen Battersby and Dave Worth – discussing the detail of the new arrangements for accommodating the homeless in the private rented sector. For details, click here.********** Housing Law News Under-occupation in social housing: last […]
News The Garden Court Immigration Team blog on the impact of the new Immigration Rule 276ADE. The Upper Tribunal (IAC) have a published a list of forthcoming country guidance cases. Click here for more information. On Thursday last week the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration published reports into applications to enter, remain and settle […]
Garden Court Chambers has today submitted three responses to the Ministry of Justice in response to its consultation on proposed reforms to Judicial Review. Submissions were made by Garden Court's Civil, Housing and Immigration Teams.
A team of barristers led by Smita Shah submitted an amicus brief to the Criminal Chambers of the Supreme Court today in the case of the infamous 2005 massacre of the San Jose de Apartado Peace Community in Colombia.
Employment news Settlement: response to Consultation now published The Government has now published its response to its consultation on settlement and compensatory awards for unfair dismissal. The Government proposes to proceed with the majority of its original proposals although its original suggestion that it should publish guideline settlement tariffs which could be used to evaluate […]
Alex Offer was successful in one of three linked appeals last month on behalf of Travellers and former Dale Farm residents who had rejected offers of bricks and mortar accommodation as unsuitable.
Housing Law News Homelessness in England: on 18 January 2013 the organisation Homeless Link distributed £3.6m in funding to 23 organisations to help them prevent rough sleeping and to assist rough sleepers across England. The money is part of the £20m grant that the UK Government is providing to Homeless Link to administer the Homelessness […]
News For UKBA’s ‘line’ on Capita Business Services contacting "overstayers" in the UK, click here. UNHCR are warning of a refugee crisis in Mali. To read further click here. To read article calling for regulation of gangmasters exploiting Bulgarian and Romanian workers, click here. Cases West London Vocational Training College Limited, R (on the application […]
Marc Willers and Desmond Rutledge appeared for the Claimants in R (Knowles & Anor) v Secretary Of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWHC 19 (Admin).
Bethan Harris appeared in a serious medical treatment case in the Court of Protection on 10 January 2013, representing the family of a young woman with learning difficulties.
