2013 09 Welfare Benefits
Tuesday 1 Oct 2013
News The ‘Bedroom Tax’ The UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Bedroom Tax According to media reports, (click here), the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Housing, Raquel Rolnik, recommended that the ‘Bedroom…
Immigration Law Bulletin – Issue 308 – 21 January 2013
Monday 21 Jan 2013
News For UKBA’s ‘line’ on Capita Business Services contacting “overstayers” in the UK, click here. UNHCR are warning of a refugee crisis in Mali. To read further click here. To…
Issue 115 – 17th November 2008
Monday 17 Nov 2008
News The retired persons of independent means route will be closed from 27 November 2008. more info The number of jobs available to foreign workers through the shortage occupation route…
Issue 40 – 22nd January 2007
Monday 22 Jan 2007
News Reports from unannounced inspections on four immigration short-term holding facilities (Colnbrook near Heathrow Airport, Reliance House and John Lennon Airport, Liverpool and Sandford House, Solihull) noted that detainees spent…
Court of Appeal quashes an unlawful notice served by Local Authority seeking eviction of Irish Travellers from a temporary site in Ramsgate Harbour
Friday 14 Apr 2023
…the press, including the BBC, Kent Online and Local Government Lawyer and local news. A transcript of the Court of Appeal judgment is available here. Please see the approved judgment on costs here….
Trial begins into misuse of police helicopter camera
Wednesday 19 Jul 2017
…Team. The trial is expected to last three weeks. The trial has been covered extensively in the media, including on BBC News, The Times, The Washington Post and the Guardian….
Employment Law Bulletin – Issue 112 – 18 October 2011
Tuesday 18 Oct 2011
Employment news The overwork epidemic Research from insurers Aviva suggests that 6 out of 10 employees work unpaid overtime each week. The average amount worked is 90 minutes in excess…
Immigration Law Bulletin – Issue 184 – 1 June 2010
Tuesday 1 Jun 2010
News Refugee and Migrant Justice (formerly the Refugee Legal Centre) faces closure due to a shortfall in payments from the Legal Services Commission, linked to the length of time it…
Issue 113 – 10th November 2008
Monday 10 Nov 2008
Latest Housing Law News Housing work on legal aid: the blueprint for provision of publicly-funded Housing Law services after April 2010 has been set out by the Legal Services Commission…
Times 100 Panellist Jan Luba QC invites Cinderella to Law Reform Ball
Tuesday 16 Jan 2007
The newspaper highlights (in the Law supplement) his contribution to a survey of the laws most in need of reform. He wrote: “The most urgent need for reform in the…
