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John Reid, as reported in the Guardian, decrees an ID card based crackdown on access to public services by illegal immigrants, as there is: "an underlying reality that we have not been tough enough in policing access to such services as council...
Local Authority allocation policy, as it applies to those to whom the Authority has accepted a duty to secure accommodation, is still being thrashed out in the Courts. Birmingham City Council is the latest to have their allocation policy found...
Hands up how many readers of the British blawgs had read BabyBarista's blog prior to say four to six weeks ago? No? Me neither. But it has been apparently going since October 06. In a textbook campaign, BabyBarista made himself known though...
In retrospect, yesterday might not have been the best day to have been posting about briefless barristers.
I have been having a few discussions lately over whom to instruct for some upcoming hearings in cases I'm looking after. And then, by co-incidence, I read Legal Beagle on the barrister's fear of being briefless. Of course, I realise that...
Binary Law doesn't like the Times Online redesign. Good. I loathe it. From intrusive, slow, floating ads (even in Firefox), to an utterly overloaded ad-and-submenu-and-splashspot-laden page, it is dreadful. It makes the Grauniad look like something...
the centre cannot hold. Not a good week, all in all. When the legal highlight of the week is some scurrilous story about the DPP and the Criminal Bar Association spokesperson enjoying illict souvlaki together, then we are in trouble. Although two...
And the case is back (scroll down a bit). Yes, the Appeal Court has quashed Roselane Driza's conviction and ordered a retrial, on the basis of new evidence. Welcome back Judge Khan, Judge J and the publicity shy Brazilian.
Having come home to find a huge spike in traffic direct to the blog, I was initially startled to find that the Law Society Professional Update newsletter email had linked to a couple of my posts on the 'What Price Justice?' campaign. Whilst I am...
The theme of the last few days for me, at least in regard to some small corners of the law blog world, has turned out to be the failure of anonymity. Item one: Someone has apparently worked out who Pupilblog is. Item two: I've been reading...
Why do people do it? Why do they sign up for joint tenancies with private landlords together with people they have only just met? I'm sure it all seems terribly exciting, but what are you letting yourself in for with your shiny new shorthold...
The House of Lords decision in Kay v Lambeth [2006] UKHL 10 addressed Human Rights defences to possession claims, attempting to unify Harrow v Qazi [2004] 1 AC and the subsequent European Court judgement in Connors v United Kingdom [2004] 40 EHRR...