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Garden Court Chambers | Monday 4 June 2007

Garden Court run for Crisis!

Members of Garden Court Chambers will be taking part in this week's charity 'Square Mile Run'

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 4 June 2007

Issue 61 – 4th June 2007

Government & Legislation: Last Week On 31 May 2007 the Government published figures supplied by the three Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) schemes showing that 66,000 deposits have been protected under the new tenancy deposit rules. That is a rate of over 1,500 deposits per day. Over £58 million worth of deposits are now protected by […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 4 June 2007

Issue 33 – 4th June 2007

CASES COURT OF APPEAL Admissibility of without prejudice negotiations Brunel University & Swartz v Webster & Vaseghi UKEAT/0307/06The Court of Appeal agrees with the decision of the EAT (see Bulletin 19) holding that while in most cases, where a grievance meeting takes place in the usual way, internally, there will be no question of waiver […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 4 June 2007

Issue 55 – 4th June 2007

News from Parliament The Citizenship Oath and Pledge (Welsh Language) Order 2007This order sets out the form of words in Welsh that may be used as an alternative to the form of citizenship oath and pledge set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the British Nationality Act 1981. More info Consultation Paper: Implementation […]

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 30 May 2007

Issue 60 – 28th May 2007

Government & Legislation: Last week At a recent Police Federation conference the Home Secretary, John Reid MP, announced that "…this summer we’ll be introducing a new Criminal Justice Bill: to extend your powers to close all premises generating yobbish behaviour – not just crack dens." For a copy of his speech click here This follows […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 28 May 2007

Issue 54 – 28th May 2007

News from Parliament The Asylum (Designated States) Order 2007The order adds a number of States to the list in Section 94(4) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.That provisions concerns appeal rights for "unfounded human rights and asylum claims". Under section 94(2), a person may not bring an appeal under section 82(1) while in […]

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 23 May 2007

Inquest: Shahid Aziz

The Death of Shahid Aziz and the failure of the Prison Service to learn lessons following the Zahid Murbarek Inquiry. Shahid Aziz was killed by his cell mate, Peter McCann, on the morning of 2nd April 2004, literally within minutes of being locked up in

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 21 May 2007

Issue 59 – 21st May 2007

Government & Legislation: Last week On 16 May 2007 Meg Munn MP, a minister at Communities & Local Government, set out the Government’s latest thinking on accommodation provision for gypsies and travellers in a conference speech. For a copy, click here. On the same day she issued two consultation papers: Draft Guidance on the design […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 21 May 2007

Issue 53 – 21st May 2007

Court of Appeal AK (Afghanistan) v Secretary Of State For The Home Department (2007) 10 May 2007. When the Secretary of State considers whether fresh representations amount to a fresh claim for asylum he must ask the right question and consider how an independent tribunal would view the fresh representations, WM (Democratic Republic of Congo) […]

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 18 May 2007

Homeless children in need must be accommodated under Children Act 1989, s 20 and not s 17

Mr Justice Holman held that local authorities were required to accommodate children in need of accommodation under Children Act 1989, s 20, so that they were entitled to the protective machinery of being looked after and also after-care services, when the

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 16 May 2007

Birmingham City Council v Paul Walker [2007] UKHL 22

The House of Lords decided in a unanimous decision today (16th May 2006) that a person who had been a joint tenant of a local authority tenancy and became a sole tenant prior to the introduction of secure tenancies by the Housing Act 1980 was not a succes

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 14 May 2007

Issue 32 – 14th May 2007

CASES COURT OF APPEAL Whistleblowing Lake v British Transport Police [2007] EWCA 424The Court of Appeal held that the Tribunal did have jurisdiction to hear a claim of detriment for making a protected disclosure and unfair dismissal even though the matter had been considered by the Police Disciplinary Board. The fact that a statutory appeals […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 14 May 2007

Issue 52 – 14th May 2007

Legislation The UK Borders Bill received its first reading in the House of Lords on 10.5.2007. In its present form, the Bill can be found by clicking here The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure)(Amendment) Rules 2007, SI 2007/1285 provide (inter alia) for the holding of directions hearings as soon as practicable after notice of appeal […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 14 May 2007

Issue 58 – 14th May 2007

Government & Legislation: Last week How should policies on provision of Housing be adapted to the needs of an ageing population? Answers to that question are invited by National Strategy for Housing in an Ageing Society – a pre-strategy document published by the Government on 8 May 2007. The consultation closes on 11 June 2007. […]

Garden Court Chambers | Sunday 13 May 2007

“A major new free legal resource”

Garden Court Chambers Online Legal Resources has been recommended by Delia Venables.

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 8 May 2007

Issue 57 – 7th May 2007

Government & Legislation: Last week At the end of April 2007 the Government issued updated guidance on the limited extent to which workers can be paid less than the minimum wage because their employer provides the worker’s accommodation. For a copy of National Minimum Wage and Accommodation Offset, click here On 30 April 2007 it […]

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 1 May 2007

Butterworths involvement with the arms trade

Reed Elsevier, through its ownership of Butterworths Lexis Nexis is one of the primary publishers of UK legal information.

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 30 April 2007

Issue 56 – 30th April 2007

Government & Legislation: Last week On 27 April 2007 the Government outlined the new scheme for provision of information to leaseholders about service and administration charges which will come into force on 1 October 2007. The enabling legislation (Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 section 153 and Schedule 11) has been triggered by a commencement […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 30 April 2007

Issue 31 – 30th April 2007

CASES HOUSE OF LORDS Victimisation St Helens Borough Council v Derbyshire & ors [2007] UKHL 16The House of Lords disagreed with the majority of the Court of Appeal and upheld the decision of the Tribunal that a letter sent by the Council to all catering staff warning of the consequences of the Claimants continued claims […]

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 30 April 2007

Issue 51 – 30th April 2007

NEWS A new "Australia-style points" based Migration system will begin in 2008.On 18th April 2007 Liam Byrne set out the timetable for the new system designed to limit the number of newcomers to the UK. There will be a tier system under the rules. Non-EU workers will be placed in five categories ranging from the […]