Comment piece: why I specified the ethnicity of a defendant acquitted of kidnap, blackmail and robbery
Wednesday 20 Dec 2017
…client mentioned in the news item linked is also typical of many black women, and women more generally, in the criminal justice system. The young Asian man acquitted was of…
Fraud trial collapses: Judge criticises prosecution team for ‘multiple and profound’ failures
Thursday 8 Jan 2015
…guilty. Further information can be found via Court News UK. Keir led Jessica Sobey of Lloyds PR solicitors. Keir Monteith is a member of the Garden Court Chambers Crime and…
Housing Law Bulletin – Issue 256 – 26 March 2012
Monday 26 Mar 2012
The Latest Housing Law News Social Housing Allocation: this is the final week for responses to the consultation on the draft Code of Guidance for Housing Allocation in England. For…
Immigration Bulletin – Issue 206 – 16 November 2010
Tuesday 16 Nov 2010
News Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese opposition politician and former General Secretary of National League of Democracy should never have been imprisoned for fifteen years in the first place says…
Issue 141 – 1st June 2009
Monday 1 Jun 2009
News Returned failed asylum seekers have been subject to torture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo an investigation this week has revealed: read more Cases In ZO (Somalia) &…
David Watkinson urges law reforms in social housing to combat continuing injustice
Friday 7 Sep 2007
…newspaper published on July 24, David and other leading authorities on social housing flagged up the need for housing law to be reformed on coherent principles to provide for an…
Stephen Simblet QC interviewed on Times Radio about autistic man detained under the Mental Health Act for four years
Wednesday 5 Jan 2022
…Health Act in Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal since September 2017. The case has been covered in The Times, ITV News, the Mirror and the Metro. Listen to the interview below….
Langley & ors v Chief Constable of Merseyside Police & anr
Tuesday 25 Oct 2005
…protection order has been considered. Further information on the case can be found on the BBC’s website at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4331644.stm Rajeev Thacker of Garden Court Chambers was counsel. The solicitor was…
2013 01 Welfare Benefits
Friday 1 Feb 2013
…per cent. The National Housing Federation report Impact of welfare reform on housing associations – 2012 Baseline report is available at housing.org.uk (click here for link). See also BBC News…
Issue 140 – 28th May 2009
Thursday 28 May 2009
News The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced in Parliament on Thursday last week the UK Border Agency’s new policy on applications for settlement from members of the Brigade of Gurkhas…
