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…
YouTube star Ally Law avoids custody for breaking into Big Brother house
Wednesday 6 Mar 2019
…2018 – the second occasion was during a live eviction. Tom Wainwright was instructed by Mike Schwarz of Bindmans. This news story has received coverage in the media, including the BBC….
Employment Law Bulletin – Issue 150 – 11 June 2013
Tuesday 11 Jun 2013
Employment News Building firms could face bans over blacklisting of workers Construction companies involved in the blacklisting of workers could be prevented from tendering for public contracts worth billions of…
Issue 136 – 26th May 2009
Tuesday 26 May 2009
The Latest Housing Law News Tolerated trespassers: there are (hopefully) no more tolerated trespassers. On Wednesday 20 May 2009 most of the provisions of s299 and Schedule 11 to the…
Issue 62 – 28th August 2007
Tuesday 28 Aug 2007
News UK visas are now accepting all Iraqi passports for entry clearance applications to travel to the UK, following the Court of Appeal’s judgment in NA (Iraq), R (on the…