The jury at the inquest into the death of Sean Rigg has delivered a highly critical narrative verdict, highlighting failures by both the police and mental health services. Mr Rigg died in police custody at Brixton police station in August 2008 after prolo
News In The Fact of Age, a report issued by Maggie Atkinson, Children’s Commissioner for England has revealed problems still occur in age assessments of children seeking asylum. Decision-making often does not function smoothly. This could also result in children being judged to be adults. Click here for more information. Cases RT (Zimbabwe) & Ors […]
James Scobie QC and Julia Krish recently represented the defendant in the murder trial R v Reece Ludlow. After pleading guilty at Woolwich Crown Court, the defendant was sentenced to a minimum of 17 years in prison.
The Latest Housing Law News Housing complaints and the Ombudsmen: the House of Commons Select Committee on Communities and Local Government has been reviewing the performance of the ombudsmen who investigate housing complaints. On 17 July 2012 it published a report on the work of the Local Government Ombudsmen (LGO) and issued a statement that […]
A dispute over who succeeded a council tenant on her death has divided the judiciary and culminated in a landmark ruling in the Supreme Court.
The Latest Housing Law News Social housing allocation: the drip-drip of legal changes to the system of housing allocations in England continued last week with the laying of a new set of Allocation of Housing Regulations. They were laid on 19 July 2012 and come into force on 24 August 2012. They limit the powers […]
News For the government’s response to the Supreme Court judgments in Munir and Alvi (as to which see below) click here. Statement of changes in Immigration Rules Government laid a statement of changes in immigration rules on 19 July coming into force on 20 July, in order to safeguard their lawful operation in light of […]
Lalith de Kauwe has secured what is believed to be only the second acquittal in a criminal trial following the August 2011 London riots. After a five-week trial at Inner London Crown Court, the defendant was found not guilty of conspiracy to commit burgla
Rajeev Thacker and Anthony Vaughan represent the current British champion in the C1 discipline of canoeing, who launched judicial review proceedings yesterday challenging the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG's) refusal to carry out
An Iraqi man who hijacked a Sudanese airbus in 1996 has successfully challenged the Secretary of State's refusal to grant him indefinite leave to remain.
Statutory and Immigration Rule changes The Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2012 No. 1532 came into effect on 9 July 2012. For more details, click here. The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 No.1547 will come into effect on 16 July 2012. For more details, click here. Cases SG (Iraq) v Secretary of State […]
The Latest Housing Law News Fraud in social housing: the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Bill has been published. It contains new criminal offences for sub-letting social housing (secure and assured tenancies) and amends the Housing Act 1988 in respect of loss of security of tenure for assured tenants. For a copy of the Bill, […]
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Employment news More employee ownershipThe Nuttall Review of employee ownership is published this month and among its recommendations is the expansion of employee ownership in the UK economy. New figures showi that companies owned by their employees are growing 50% faster than the UK economy – at a rate of 1.1% compared to 0.7% for […]
News As announced by the government on 18 June 2012, the Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2012 came into force on 9 July. Click here for more information. So too did the new immigration rules on family members discussed in recent Immigration law bulletins. Cases Mohammed v Austria 2283/12 (Communicated Case) [2012] ECHR 1226 (03 […]
Marc Willers appears in the High Court today, representing east London residents unhappy about their home being used as a missile battery by the MoD. Under the plan, which residents were not consulted on, the MoD intends to site high velocity missiles on
The Latest Housing Law News Allocating social housing: the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has published a briefing on the content of the new statutory guidance issued to local authorities in England about social housing allocation. For a copy of the briefing, click here. For a copy of the guidance itself, which replaces all previous […]
Garden Court Chambers’ Housing Team has responded to the Ministry of Justice Consultation Legal Aid Reform: Application of the Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme. As a team, they wish to take this final opportunity to urge the Ministry of Justice not to proce
The Latest Housing Law News Allocating social housing: on 29 June 2012 the UK Government issued new statutory guidance to local authorities in England about social housing allocation. For a copy of the guidance, which replaces all previous such statutory guidance, click here. The new guidance follows a consultation exercise on a draft. For a […]
News The Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Korea concerning the Readmission of Persons (London, 20 December 2011) (Treaty Series No. 30 (2012)) entered into force on 1 June 2012. See also Immigration Law Bulletin issue 266. To see the […]
