The Latest Housing Law News New national standards for social landlords: the Tenant Services Authority (TSA) will announce later this month the content of the new national statutory standards to be observed by both local councils and housing associations from 1 April 2010. The TSA has been working through a deluge of comments on the […]
Stephen Knafler, Judy Khan and James Scobie, to be Queen's Counsel.
Court of Justice of the European Union PRESS RELEASE No 12/10
On 17 February 2010 the High Court delivered judgment in the case of R (on the application of Equality & Human Rights Commission) (Claimant) v Secretary of State for Justice (Defendant) & Secretary of State for the Home Department (Interested Part
Honouring the victims of forced marriage and honour killings: moving from awareness to action. An interactive seminar aimed at creating a multi-agency approach.
Garden Court Chambers has reviewed its events booking system.
The Latest Housing Law News Housing Benefit: today is the closing date for submissions to the consultation on the reform of Housing Benefit. See the details under "Housing Law Consultations" (below) Legal Aid for Housing Cases: later this week (on 26 February 2010) the LSC will open the tender process for Social Welfare Law (including […]
News The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) replaced the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal as from 15 February 2010. seehttp://www.tribunals.gov.uk/ImmigrationAsylum/andhttp://www.tribunals.gov.uk/ImmigrationAsylum/utiac/ The Children’s Commissioner for England has produced a report critical of the practice of detaining children at the Yarl’s Wood Detention centre. seehttp://www.11million.org.uk/For the government’s response. seehttp://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2010/February/yarls-wood-media-coverage […]
In a rare move, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) grants an application under Rule 39 for an interim measure preventing removal of the Applicant in respect of his complaints raising Articles 8 Right to Family Life and Article 6 Right to a Fair He
Garden Court Chambers influencing policy at EU level
The Latest Housing Law News Still no security of tenure for council site residents. The Housing & Regeneration Act 2008 section 318 would extend security of tenure to residents of official local authority gypsy and traveller caravan sites. On 10 February 2010 a civil servant at Communities & Local Government (CLG) indicated that ministers had […]
News The Council of Europe noted that several European governments are forcibly returning to Kosovo persons who have found shelter in their countries. To assess the situation, Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, visits Kosovo from 11 to 13 February. Amongst the returnees are some Roma, who have ended up in […]
Garden Court barrister Ian Peddie QC, will be a speaker at the Medical Evidence in Child Abuse Cases Conference 2010
News A case owner at the Border Agency office in Cardiff has claimed that asylum seekers are mistreated, tricked and humiliated by staff working for the Agency. The whistle blower has said that officials at the Cardiff office have expressed fiercely anti-immigration views and take pride in refusing applications.http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/02/border-staff-asylum-seekers-whistleblower From 22 February 2010, any applicant […]
Garden Court Chambers Welcomes New Family Tenants.
Garden Court Barrister Nadine Finch to present report on recent research into Unaccompanied Foreign Children.
News In a letter dated 25 January 2010 from Lin Homer, UKBA Chief Executive, to Donna Covey, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council and co-chair of the National Asylum Stakeholder Forum, the government has announced its current intention to opt out of the latest European Commission proposals recasting the EU Procedures and Qualification Directives. The […]
The Latest Housing Law News Goodbye "secure" and "assured" in social housing? In the light of the Law Commission’s Renting Homes report (2006) there should now be the opportunity for a "review of the legislative framework for tenure law for social housing". For more on that and for other views expressed by the Welsh Assembly […]
COURT OF APPEAL Representation in disciplinary proceedings R (G) v Governors of X School [2010] EWCA Civ 1A teacher was accused of sexual misconduct towards a 15 year old boy and dismissed at a disciplinary hearing. The Court of Appeal held that as it was likely that the outcome of the hearing would have a […]
Cases In AZ (rule 57(iv): external student, overseas degree) Pakistan [2010] UKAIT 00001 (22 January 2010) the Tribunal found that for the purposes of the Immigration Rules, ‘external student’ is a term of art, embracing a smaller class of students than all those studying externally for something: thus they reversed YS India. http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIAT/2010/00001.html In IK […]
