On 1st December the Supreme Court delivered judgment in the case of Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs v Meier and others [2009] UKSC 11.
The Latest Housing Law News Unauthorised sub-tenants in social housing: on 30 November 2009 the Housing Minister announced details of a new campaign to address "housing fraud", particularly in the form of unauthorised sub-letting of social housing in England. Each local authority and large social landlord is to receive funding to encourage a clampdown on […]
Sitting before HM Deputy Coroner for Leeds, David Hinchliffe and a Jury. The inquest into the death of Paul Clarkson at HMP Leeds on 6 July 2006, following his recall on licence, concluded on Wednesday 18 November 2009 with the jury deciding that the medi
News The Ministry of Justice has announced the appointment of the Honourable Mr Justice Blake to be the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal with effect from 15 February 2010. Read more. Immigration statistics for the third quarter of 2009 have been released by the Home Office. They show that […]
The Latest Housing Law News Preventing Possession: the incredibly useful, but previously unpublished, Short Guide from Regional Resource Teams for Local Authorities on how to Prevent Homelessness due to Mortgage and Landlord Repossession has now been distributed to the Housing Benefit sections of all local housing authorities. It comes as an Appendix to Circular HB/CTB […]
Shaken Baby Syndrome seminar hosted by Garden Court Chambers Criminal Team
News 1.Over 950,000 passengers have used state of the art facial recognition at border controls in the UK. Passengers use the self service gates which takes seconds to scan each passengers face against the digital photo recorded in their passports. If there is a match, the e- passport gates open to allow passengers entry into […]
Garden Court Chambers is delighted to announce the publication of this important book with foreword by Helena Kennedy QC, featuring contributing author Nerida Harford-Bell of Garden Court's crime team. This seminal publication presents a penetrating and t
The Latest Housing Law News Legal aid for Housing cases: the terms on which legal aid will be provided in Housing and other civil law casework from October 2010 were announced this week. The Legal Services Commission published the new Standard Civil Contract under which it will purchase such legal services. For a copy of […]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has appointed Richard J. Harvey as lead counsel to represent Dr. Radovan Karadzic former President of Republika Srpska (1992-1996)
News As a prelude to the General Election debate, Gordon Brown made a speech last week outlining plans to tighten the UK’s immigration rules, by reducing the number of professions which can recruit from outside Europe and limiting the numbers coming in to Britain on student visas. Read more. Whilst the Migration Advisory Committee has […]
The Latest Housing Law News Possession proceedings: on 12 November 2009 possession proceedings statistics for England and Wales for the third quarter of 2009 were published. The provisional figures show increases in claims made and orders made in landlord possession proceedings and an increase in the number of mortgage possession claims leading to possession orders […]
Over the course of nearly two decades, one young woman has died in our prisons every ten weeks.
Chambers leads the Bar in 2010 rankings for Social Housing and Immigration
The Latest Housing Law News Housing and anti-social behaviour: on 31 October 2009 the Prime Minister said "every single one of the most chaotic families in Britain will be subject to a family intervention project with clear rules and clear sanctions, if the rules are broken. Every time a young person breaches an anti-social behaviour […]
ECJ – sick leave Francisco Vicente Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA, ECJ case C-277/08The ECJ held that:"…… a worker who is on sick leave during a period of previously scheduled annual leave has the right, on his request and in order that he may actually use his annual leave, to take that leave during a […]
News The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) has launched a consultation on revising its guidance on competence for immigration advisors. Read more. Following the Home Secretary’s admission that the government has been ‘maladroit’ in its handling of immigration, various commentators have been calling for an open debate on the subject. Read more. According […]
The Latest Housing Law News Recent Developments in Housing Law: it is hoped that readers of this Bulletin also subscribe to Legal Action magazine, not least to obtain access to the monthly article Recent Developments in Housing Law written by HHJ Nic Madge and Jan Luba QC. Much of the caselaw material used in those […]
Cases Blake J in the Administrative Court in Karim (R on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 2714 (Admin) considered the administrative processing of "legacy" cases at the Home Office. He found that the policy that defined "seriously mishandled" cases as falling within the exceptional class requiring expedition […]
News A controversial article about the possibility that numbers of trafficked women are exaggerated entitled "prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic" by Nick Davies dated 20th October 2009. Read more. On 21st October 2009 the Migration Advisory Committee recommended adding teachers in special schools and skilled meat boners and trimmers to […]
