The government's handling of Homelessness policy has this week been described as a "shambles" by two leading housing law specialists from Garden Court Chambers.
Ten people who demonstrated against the bi-annual DSEI Arms Fair held in London's docklands by climbing on to or attempting to climb on to DLR and others trains in September last year have won their appeals against sentence (for obstructing the railway) w
Government and Legislation On 18 September 2006 the government laid the Persons Subject toImmigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) Order 2006 SI 2521 which comes into force on 9 October. It deals with exceptions to the prohibition on access to council housing for those subject to immigration control who are outside the normal […]
Government and Legislation On 13 September 2006 the government announced that the requirement to produce a Homelessness Strategy would shortly be removed from 4-star and 3-star local housing authorities: see Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) Press Release 94/06 The obligation has already been lifted from "excellent" authorities in England and the extention to […]
News URGENT CALL: The Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children’s Project is under threat of Closure Unless further funding can be obtained imminently the Project will be shut down. Find out what can be done to save the project. Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules Cm 6918 A new ‘Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules’, Command […]
Garden Court to host second international conflict management course 11-16 September
Government and Legislation On 4 September 2006 a new Homelessness Code of Guidance for local housing authorities in England came into effect. All decisions made last week must therefore have had regard to the new Code. The Code can be purchased for £18 from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). On 6 September […]
Cases Disability discrimination and sick pay O’Hanlon v The Commissioners for HM Revenue & Customs UKEAT/0109/06/MAA A disabled employee exhausted her sick pay due to disability-related absence and claimed a failure to make reasonable adjustments and disability-related discrimination. The EAT held the correct comparators in this case were those who were not disabled and did […]
News Thirty-two Iraqis were forcibly removed on 5 September despite concerns that they will face persecution upon their return. They were flown on military aircraft, which left an RAF base in the UK and headed for Kurdish-held Northern Iraq. Home Secretary, John Reid had already stated that he would ignore any applications for judicial review […]
An advanced workshop in refugee law Conducted by: Professor James Hathaway of the University of Michigan Law School on ?An examination of the requirement of alienage within Article 1A2 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees?
ASBOs: a practitioner's guide to defending Anti-social Behaviour Orders
THIS CONCERNS YOU!
Employment - Age Discrimination
Thursday 28th September 2006 6.30pm - 8.00pm
1.5 CPD hrs
Presented by Catrin Lewis and Rajeev Thacker
J v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2006)
The case of J was successfully appealed yesterday in the Court of Appeal which Femi Omere of Garden Court Chambers appeared in as junior counsel.
The case involves a homosexual from Iran who feared
News The Iranian government should immediately reverse its threat of prosecution against Iran’s most prominent independent human rights organisation, reported Human Rights Watch, referring to the interior ministry announcement that the Centre for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), co-founded by the 2003 Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, was an illegal organisation. Read more Legislation The […]
Domestic Law Court of Appeal S and Ors v Secretary of State [2006] EWCA Civ 1157 The statutory scheme of immigration control postulated that someone who successfully maintained that their removal would constitute a violation of their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 should be entitled to leave to remain for however […]
On July 19th 2006 a press conference for Mumia Abu-Jamal took place at Garden Court Chambers organised by Legal Action for Women and Ian Macdonald QC .
After 24 years on Pennsylvania's death row, Mr Abu-Jamal, convicted in 1982 of killing a policeman, h
Cases Withdrawal of claim Khan v Heywood & Middleton Primary Care Trust [2006] EWCA 1087 The Court of Appeal, while criticising the drafting of the rule, held that an Employment Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to set aside a notice of withdrawal of a claim made under rule 25(2) of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution […]
Government and Legislation On 24 July 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) issued a new Homelessness Code of Guidance for local housing authorities in England. It takes effect on 4 September 2006. At 268 pages it will require careful consideration by authorities and advisers. Click Here to download a copy. On 25 […]
News Raging sectarian violence has pushed up the number of refugees in Iraq by 20,000 in the last 10 days alone, reported the migration ministry. Read more In Lebanon, the UN estimates that 800,000 Lebanese have been displaced by recent events, a huge number for a country of 3.5 million. Sami Haddad, the Lebanese minister […]
