News UKBA is setting up new arrangements for skilled workers who came here under work routes that have now closed, so that they can extend their stay in the UK to a total of 5 years. To read further, click here. Cases R (Cart) v Upper Tribunal; R (MR (Pakistan)) v UT & SSHD [2011] […]
News David and Goliath? The battle lines appear to be drawn in what has been billed as the "biggest strike for 100 years" over public sector pensions. An estimated 750,000 workers will take part in strikes in a fight to secure their pensions. Click here to read the news story. Cuts equals bullying? Harsh budget […]
Cases Sultan of Pahang, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 616 (25 May 2011)The Court of Appeal found that Pahang is not a State for the purposes of the State Immunity Act 1978. There was no room for some residual common law category of a […]
Laurie Fransman QC, Adrian Berry and the Garden Court Immigration Team have held the official launch of the Third Edition of Fransman's British Nationality Law
The Latest Housing Law News Changing housing law: the legislation presently before Parliament which is intended to amend housing law in England & Wales (the Localism Bill) reaches its House of Lords Committee Stage this week. The Government has updated its Plain English Guide to the Bill. The housing provisions are summarised at pages 15-17. […]
News Government sets out proposals for breaking links between temporary and permanent migration. For further information, click here. Next set of changes to student visas rules announced which will come into effect 4th July 2011. For further information, click here. Human rights Watch demand action from the UN Security Council. "The Security Council’s complete silence […]
Haldane Society and Young Legal Aid Lawyers have released an independent report arguing that cutting legal aid is “a false economy” ahead of the expected government announcement on legal aid reforms. The report was supported by Garden Court Chambers.
The Latest Housing Law News Free resources on Housing Law: to access multiple webpages of free resources on Housing law, including statutory and other materials, covering Allocation of Housing, Anti-Social Behaviour’ Community Care & Housing, Disrepair, Homelessness, Housing Benefit, Housing & Human Rights, Possession and Unlawful Eviction, click here. Homelessness: the number of applicants accepted […]
Laurie Fransman QC and the Garden Court Immigration Team held the official launch of the Fifth Edition of the British Nationality volume of Halsbury's Laws of England on 7 June. The launch was well attended by solicitors and barristers, as well as the pub
Garden Court housing barristers John Beckley, Liz Davies and Marina Sergides, have reported back from a fact-finding mission to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, on behalf of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and Avocats Sans Frontière
The Latest Housing Law News Empty Properties: on 31 May 2011 the Communities Minister, Andrew Stunell MP, published the article Empty Prospects which contains a review of current UK government initiatives to tackle empty housing in England. For a copy of the article, click here. Housing Benefit: the DWP has just issued Housing Benefit Direct […]
Employment News The latest figures from Incomes Data Services show that pay rises in the private sector are running at an average of 3% per annum, in contrast to public sector pay settlements which are averaging 0%. For further details, click here. A report published by the Resolution Foundation predicts that real wages in the […]
News The UKBA’s current asylum policy was deemed still ‘not fit for purpose’ by the home affairs select committee last week. To read further, click here. The UKBA opened a new immigration removal centre last week at Morton Hall in Lincolnshire. To read further, click here. The Council of Europe strongly criticised last week the […]
The Latest Housing Law News Possession claims and Human Rights defences: the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is handling a backlog of complaints from UK residents who were public authority tenants but who, pre-Pinnock and Powell, were unable to have a county court determination of the proportionality of their evictions. The Court has […]
News S.19 of the UK Borders Act 007 came into force on the 23rd May 2011. For further details, click here. The European Commission last week published its annual report on immigration and asylum. For further details, click here. Bail for Immigration Detainees and The Children’s Society have published a new report on detention of […]
SAL announces winners at Millenium Hotel
The Latest Housing Law News Changing housing law: on 17 and 18 May 2011 the Localism Bill completed its Report and Third Reading stages in the House of Commons. In debate, the government gave sympathetic reception to opposition amendments designed to reverse the effect of the decisions in Birmingham CC v Qasim (allocation outside the […]
News The government is consulting on changes to the EHRC, including closures of the EHRC’s helpline and the ending of the EHRC strategic grants programme. The consultation closes on 15 June 2011. For further details, click here. The government is also consulting on the introduction of flexible parental leave, on changes to the Working Time […]
News UKBA has announced the intention to commence UK Borders Act 2007, s 19 – amending 2002 Act, s 85 and inserting a new s 85A with the basic effect that in PSB appeals the Tribunal is to only consider evidence submitted with the original application – as from Monday 23 May. To read further, […]
In Ross v Stobart Ltd the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ordered a fresh hearing in a case where the Tribunal had erred in finding that a worker suffered no detriment when he was required to work in excess of 48 hours per week over a 17 week period.
