*** SPECIAL NOTICE. This will be the last Housing Law Bulletin of 2012. Its publication was deferred for four days to enable maximum possible coverage of housing events and cases before the seasonal break. The editor (Jan Luba QC) and the Housing Team at Garden Court extend seasonal good wishes to all readers. *** Housing […]
News New immigration rules were announced on 12 December and came into force the next day. The changes include amendments to clarify the absences from the UK that are allowed during the continuous residence period for settlement for Tier 1 (General), Tier 2 and pre-points based system work routes (for example work permits, self-employment and […]
Employment news Muslim women face an uphill battle against prejudice to find work Sadly it seems that prejudice still hinders sections of our society in their quest to find employment. Myriam Francios-Cerrah writing on the Guardian online notes that South Asian Muslim women have the highest rate of unemployment in terms of both religion and […]
UNICEF UK commissioned a team from Queen's University, Belfast to examine and identify lessons from the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in other countries. Smita Shah was invited by UNICEF UK to sit on the Advisory Board.
The Latest Housing Law News Homelessness: the latest statistics on homelessness applications in England were released on 6 December 2012. They show that 13,890 applicants were accepted as owed a main homelessness duty between 1 July and 30 September 2012, 11% higher than during the same quarter of 2011. In consequence, the numbers in temporary […]
Cases Omar, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Rev 1) [2012] EWHC 3448 (Admin)30th November 2012The Secretary of State was wrong to have invalidated an application for discretionary leave to remain, due to the non payment of a fee, made by an applicant who was in receipt of […]
Displaying a disconcertingly extensive knowledge of James Bond movies, political trivia and GCSE Latin, Garden Court's A Team successfully defended its title to win the INQUEST quiz trophy for the third year running.
Jan Luba QC and Liz Davies have published their third edition of Housing Allocation and Homelessness: Law and Practice (Jordans). The book provides a uniquely balanced coverage of both allocation of social housing and homelessness.
The Latest Housing Law News Additional Priority in Social Housing Allocation: on Friday 30 November 2012 the new regulations, requiring "additional preference" to be given to certain members of the armed forces in the allocation of social housing in England, came into effect. For a copy of the regulations, click here. For the memorandum explaining […]
Immigration Law News Leveson LJ’s report finds sensational or unbalanced reporting in relation to immigrants and asylum seekers is concerning. To read further, click here. The ONS records that net migration into the UK is falling. To read further, click here. For the Garden Court Immigration Blog inter alia on the case of Said (see […]
Seven and a half years after their original arraignment, three former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders were acquitted of six charges yesterday in The Hague. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found ex-Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ram
Employment news Public sector equality duty In a speech to the CBI, David Cameron has announced plans to cut back on equality impact assessments. It appears that the government has no plans yet to amend section 149 Equality Act but is seeking rather to restrict the civil service practice of considering the potential equality impact […]
*** THIS WEEK’S IMPORTANT NEWS****The third edition of the Housing Allocation and Homelessness book written by Liz Davies and Jan Luba QC is published this week. For information on how to get the book, click here. The very first copies will be issued to delegates attending the three seminars that Jan and Liz are leading […]
News New immigration rules were announced, said to establish a more robust and clear criminality framework to assess immigration applications, recalculating the length of time, based on the length of sentence, before a deportation order will be revoked, introducing a re-entry ban for some foreign national offenders who have been removed from the UK as […]
Ali Naseem Bajwa QC and Stephanie Ward acted for a prisoner, labelled 'The Southwark Rapist'. The first person to receive a whole life order who had not been convicted of an offence of murder.
News Judicial Implementation of Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Europe, of which Nadine Finch of Garden Court is co-author, has now been published by UNICEF. Click here for more information. Cases R (Bushara) v Secretary of State for the Home DepartmentMr Ockelton sitting as a Deputy High Court […]
***LATE NEWS: This Tuesday afternoon (20 November) at 5pm, Jan Luba QC will be leading a free seminar on Human rights defences and possession claims in Nottingham. For venue details and to register to attend, please Email Cheryl Weston. ***STOP PRESS: We apologise to readers for the difficulties that they will have faced using the […]
Kirsten Heaven represents the family of anti-gun campaigner stabbed to death by mentally ill grandson who was sent home after a limited mental health assessment.
Employment news Government to extend flexible working rights and implement flexible parental leaveThe Government has announced in a response to its own previous consultation plans to enable mothers, from 2015, to end their maternity leave before its end and share some of it with their partner. The Government has also announced plans to extend the […]
***STOP PRESS: Tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday 13 November at 5pm), Jan Luba QC will be leading a free seminar on homelessness, housing allocation, and tenancy strategies in Coventry. To attend, and for venue details, Email Emmett.maginn@covlaw.org.uk The Latest Housing Law News Homelessness: last Friday (9 November 2012) the changes to homelessness law in England came into […]
