Slattery v Basildon BC [2014] EWCA Civ 30, 22 January 2014
Ms Slattery was one of the Irish Travellers who were evicted from the Dale Farm site. Thereafter she moved to a different part of the site where she continued to occupy the land in question unlawfully. She applied as a homeless person and was offered bricks and mortar accommodation which she refused.
Summit Navigation v Generali Romania Asigurare [2014] EWHC 391, 21 February 2014
This case is not about Gypsy or Traveller matters but is important from the point of view of the line of cases following on from the Mitchell judgment on the question of compliance with Court Orders.
R (Ward) v South Cambridgeshire DC, [2014] EWHC 521 (Admin), 4 February 2014
The local authority manages Gypsy and Traveller sites in South Cambridgeshire at Blackwell and Whaddon. Ms Ward is an Irish Traveller and the mother of six children. She currently lives in privately rented accommodation. She has been on the waiting list for a pitch on one of the two sites managed by the local authority since March 2010.
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