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- Category: Articles
- Association of Chief Police Officers Guidance on Unauthorised Camping
- Defining Travellers out of Existence - An Analysis
- Gypsy Roma Traveller Integration Strategies
- Housing and Planning Bill 2016 Clause 115
- Interventions
- National Roma Integration Strategies
- Reducing Cost and Conflict around Unauthorised Traveller Encampments - Challenges & Opportunities
- Scottish Police Guidance
- The Bach Commission
- The Ministry of Injustice?
- Welsh Government Guidance on Managing Unauthorised Camping
- Category: Campaigns and Consultations
- City Centre PSPO Consultation
- Civil Legal Aid Cuts "Failed To target Help Where Needed”
- Commitments from the Ministerial Working Group (MWG) on Gypsies and Travellers
- Department for Communities and Local Government ‘Planning and Travellers’ consultation
- Department for Communities and Local Government Consultation on Planning and Travellers
- Department for Communities and Local Government Consultation on Site Licensing for Park Homes
- Duty Possession Scheme Consultation
- Education Act Consultation
- Enabling Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
- English Traveller Caravan Count Survey
- FOI Request to Ministry of Justice
- Government's Balance of Competences Review on Fundamental Rights
- Home Office Consultation on Strengthening Police Powers of Eviction of Unauthorised Encampments
- Housing (Wales) Bill
- Human Rights
- Jackson Review of Fixed Recoverable Costs
- Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights (JCHR)
- Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights (JCHR)
- Judicial Review and Legal Aid
- Judicial Review: Proposals For Further Reform
- Justice Select Committee Legal Aid Inquiry
- London Plan - CLP Submission to Consultation
- Low Commission Final Report
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) Consultation: Powers for Dealing with Unauthorised Development and Encampments
- Ministry of Justice 'Transforming Legal Aid'
- Ministry of Justice Consultation
- Ministry of Justice Consultation on Judicial Review
- Mobile Homes Act (MHA) 1983
- Moorings Consultation
- Planning (Wales) Bill 2014
- Planning Guidance
- Power To The People
- Re-Defining Travellers Out Of Existence
- Report Hate Crime
- Response of Community Law Partnership to the Birmingham City Centre PSPO Consultation 2019
- Response of the Travellers Advice Team at Community Law Partnership to the Consultation on the English Homelessness Code of Guidance
- Review of European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
- Streamlining the Planning Application Process
- Temporary Stop Notices
- Temporary Stop Notices - Government Response
- The Community Law Partnership's Response to the Consultation about Enforcement of Possession Orders and Alignment of Procedures in the County Court and High Court
- The Heart and Soul of the Nomad Nation
- The Law on Consultations and the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government Consultation on Powers regarding Unauthorised Development and Encampments
- The Low Commission
- The Low Commission
- UK Report to the United Nations under the International Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination
- Welsh Government Consultation ...
- Welsh Government Consultation on new Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 Regulations
- Welsh Government draft guidance on Managing Local Authority Gypsy and Traveller Sites
- Category: Gypsy and Traveller Cases
- Dartford Borough Council -v- The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
- Five Year Deliverable Supply of Housing
- John Romans Parks Homes Limited v Michael and Julie Hancock
- Port of London Authority v Mendoza
- R (Jayes) -v- Flintshire CC
- Category: Adverse possession
- Category: Article 8
- Article 8 and Private Tenants
- FJM – v – The United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights
- Lawal - v - Circle 33 Housing Trust Limited
- Leicester City Council -v- Shearer
- Malik -v- Fassenfelt
- McDonald -v- McDonald
- PRESS RELEASE - IS THIS THE END OF THE WIDE INJUNCTION?
- Southend-on-Sea Borough Council -v- Armour
- Winterstein -v- France
- Category: Boat Cases
- Category: Traveller homelessness
- Category: Traveller other
- Into the Sea? Wide Injunctions
- Knowles -v- SSWP
- London Borough of Bromley v Persons Unknown and London Gypsies & Travellers
- Public Law Defences to Possession Actions
- R (AB) -v- SSHD
- R (TW, SW and EM) – v – London Borough of Hillingdon and EHRC (intervener) [2018] EWHC 1791 (Admin) 13 July 2018
- R (VC) v North Somerset Council (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) CO/3801/2015
- R (Ward & Ors) - v - LB Hillingdon and EHRC (Interveners)
- R(J) -v- Worcestershire CC & ECHR
- R(Patrick Mahoney, Frances Jones and Rachel Cleary) -v- SSCLG
- The Enshrined Right to Travel : The Bromley Case
- The Traveller Movement and Others - v - J D Wetherspoon Plc
- URGENT PRESS RELEASE - Injunctions criticised in landmark ruling
- Ward -v- South Cambridgeshire DC
- Water Rates
- Worcestershire County Council -v- J (By His Litigation Friend W) and the Equality and Human Rights
- Zoumbas -v- SSHD
- Category: Traveller planning
- Ball -v- SSCLG
- Ball -v- SSCLG & Brentwood Borough Council
- Braintree DC v SSHCLG and Nicholls [2021] EWHC 651 (QB)
- Collins -v- SSCLG
- Connors & Others -v- SSCLG & Others
- Dartford Borough Council -v- The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
- Dear -v- SSCLG & Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
- Definition of Gypsy and Traveller
- Doncaster MBC -v- SSCLG & AB
- Five Year Deliverable Supply of Housing
- Flynn -v- SSCLG and Basildon BC
- Forest of Dean DC -v- SSCLG and Jones
- Green Belt Planning Appeals
- Guildford BC v Cooper & Brazil
- Hughes – v – SSCLG
- Lee -v- Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Runnymede Borough Council
- Moore -v- SSCLG
- Moore -v- SSCLG
- Moore & Coates -v- SSCLG
- O'Connor -v- SSCLG & Epping Forest District Council
- Planning Permission in the Green Belt - the very special circumstances test
- R (Dartford Borough Council) -v- Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (SSCLG)
- R (Eastwood) -v- The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
- R (Hand) -v- SSCLG
- R (Jayes) -v- Flintshire CC
- R (Mulvenna and Smith) - v - Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Equality and Human Rights Commission
- R (O'Brien) - v - South Cambridgeshire Council and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
- R (XY) -v- Maidstone Borough Council and Smith
- Redhill Aerodrome Case
- Reilly - v - Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council
- Smith -v- SSCLG & South Bucks District Council
- St Edmundsbury Borough Council - v - Oakley
- Stevens -v- SSCLG
- Swale Borough Council v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Maughan [2018] EWHC 3402 (Admin)
- Thurrock Borough Council -v- Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Ward
- Wenman –v- The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (SSCLG) and
- Whitcher - v - Secretary of State for Communities and Local Goverment
- Category: Traveller rented site eviction
- Category: Traveller unauthorised encampment eviction
- Category: Housing Cases
- Challenging Birmingham's Allocations Scheme
- Court of Appeal Grants permission for second appeal in Russell v Solihull MBC
- FJM – v – The United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights
- John Romans Park Homes v Hancock & ors [2018] UKUT 249 (LC)
- John Romans Parks Homes Limited v Michael and Julie Hancock
- R (TW, SW and EM) – v – London Borough of Hillingdon and EHRC (intervener) [2018] EWHC 1791 (Admin) 13 July 2018
- R (Ward & Ors) - v - LB Hillingdon and EHRC (Interveners)
- Remove a Tenant? Maybe not this time!
- Rent Arrears and Anti-Social Behaviour
- Stephenson v Birmingham City Council
- Two transfers of the legal title to a property set aside on grounds of duress and undue influence
- Victory for Terryann Samuels in the Supreme Court
- Category: Links
- Category: News
- 50 Households may have been evicted by Birmingham City Council in breach of Court rules
- A Comparison of the New and Old Police Guidance on Unauthorised Encampments
- A Response to Extending Fixed Recoverable Costs in Civil Cases: Implementing Sir Rupert Jackson’s proposals
- Access Denied?
- Access To Justice
- All we need are Sites
- Article 8 After A Possession Order Has Been Made
- Article 8 and Private Tenants
- Article 8 challenge : Canal and River Trust -v- Jones
- Assessing the Need for Gypsy and Traveller Sites
- Bach Commission
- Bedroom Tax Appeal Successful
- Boat Cases
- Boat Dwellers and Legal Aid
- Boatdweller Wins in Court of Appeal
- Boatdwellers
- Braintree DC v SSHCLG and Nicholls [2021] EWHC 651 (QB)
- Buckland -v- The United Kingdom
- Canal & River Trust Terms and Conditions of Licence
- Case Law on Compliance with Directions (Post Mitchell Update)
- CCMS D-Day
- Challenging Birmingham's Allocations Scheme
- Challenging CRT's New Terms and Conditions
- Chambers Directory
- Children Reprieved from Life in Tower
- City Centre PSPO Consultation
- Civil Legal Aid Cuts "Failed To target Help Where Needed”
- CLP at the Supreme Court
- CLP write to Lord Chancellor re Evictions
- CLP writes to Lord Chancellor about Traveller evictions
- CLP/CAB INITIATIVE TO PROVIDE HOUSING LAW SERVICES IN HEREFORDSHIRE
- Comic Relief
- Commitments from the Ministerial Working Group (MWG) on Gypsies and Travellers
- Computer Says No
- Computer Still Says NO
- Corbyn calls for Review of Civil Legal Aid
- CORONAVIRUS
- Court of Appeal grants permission for second appeal in rent possession case
- Court of Appeal Grants permission for second appeal in Russell v Solihull MBC
- COURT STATES MR PICKLES DISCRIMINATED AGAINST GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS
- Criminal Legal Aid U Turn
- David Watkinson
- Defining Travellers out of Existence - An Analysis
- Definition Challenge
- Definition Challenged Lodged
- Definition of Gypsy and Traveller
- Doncaster MBC v SSCLG & AB
- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Evictions of roadside Gypsy and Traveller encampments during the Coronavirus emergency
- Exceptional Funding
- Exceptional Funding
- Exceptional Funding
- Free Tibet Campaign
- Glastonbury Festival
- Government Backs Down on Removal of Legal Aid for Planning Appeals
- Green Belt Cases
- Green Belt Recovery Cases
- Guildford BC v Cooper & Brazil
- Gypsies and Travellers in Dorset
- Gypsy Woman Wins in Court of Appeal
- Harlow Council withdraw injunction against Traveller camps
- High Court Planning Success
- Home Office Consultation on Strengthening Police Powers of Eviction of Unauthorised Encampments
- Homelessness in Birmingham - A Case Study
- Housing and Planning Bill 2016
- Housing and Planning Bill Clause 115
- Housing Contract
- Human Rights Act Safe for this Parliament
- Human Rights Act Saved!
- Impact of Insecure Accommodation and the Living Environment on Gypsies' and Travellers' Health
- In the Nick of Time
- Interventions
- Into the Sea? Wide Injunctions
- Is Britain Fairer?
- Jackson Review of Fixed Recoverable Costs
- Judicial Review and Legal Aid
- Judicial Review and Legal Aid
- Judicial Review and Legal Aid - Leader of the Opposition gets involved
- Judicial Review Challenges to Unauthorised Encampment Eviction Cases
- Judicial Review Reforms Unlawful But Government Ignores The Courts
- Kick In The Shins
- Labour Party Inquiry into Legal Aid
- Labour Party Leadership Process
- Landlord ordered to pay former tenant over £48,000 in housing disrepair claim
- LASPO Review
- Law Firm of the Year
- Legal Aid Cuts
- LEGAL AID IS CHANGING
- Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards
- Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2017
- Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2017
- Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2020
- Legal Aid Matters
- Legal Aid Problems
- London Borough of Bromley v Persons Unknown and London Gypsies & Travellers
- Low Commission Final Report
- Mead Lane Moorings
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) Consultation: Powers for Dealing with Unauthorised Development and Encampments
- Moorings Consultation
- Much Too Exceptional Funding
- New Arrivals
- No Mad Laws - Labour Candidates
- No Mad Laws Campaign
- No Mad Laws Campaign - Press Release
- Parminder Sanghera Shortlisted for Award
- Party Manifestos for the General Election
- Picklesgate
- Power To The People
- PRESS RELEASE - IS THIS THE END OF THE WIDE INJUNCTION?
- Press Release - London Gypsies and Travellers challenges "Wide Injunctions" in the High Court
- Public Law in Public Spaces
- R (Ben Hoare Bell & Others) -v- The Lord Chancellor
- R (VC) v North Somerset Council (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) CO/3801/2015
- Redefining Travellers Out Of Existence
- Reducing Cost and Conflict around Unauthorised Traveller Encampments - Challenges & Opportunities
- Remove a Tenant? Maybe not this time!
- Rent Arrears and Anti-Social Behaviour
- Report Hate Crime
- Residence Test for Legal Aid found lawful by Court of Appeal
- Response of Community Law Partnership to the Birmingham City Centre PSPO Consultation 2019
- Response to the No Mad Laws Campaign Petition from the MoJ
- Review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 ("LASPOA")
- Roadside Gypsies and Travellers During the Pandemic Part 1
- Roadside Gypsies and Travellers During the Pandemic Part 2
- Roadside Gypsies and Travellers During the Pandemic Part 3
- Samuels v Birmingham City Council - Supreme Court Grants Permission
- Security of Tenure for Council Tenants
- Seek Help When Served With a Possession Claim
- Still Behind Closed Doors
- Stop Press!
- Stop Racist Injunctions
- Success for client in Ghost case
- T - Minus 312 Hours
- Tackling Inequalities Faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities
- Temporary Stop Notices
- Terryann Samuels – The long road to the Supreme Court – Struggles with the Legal Aid Agency
- The Bach Commission
- The Community Law Partnership's Response to the Consultation about Enforcement of Possession Orders and Alignment of Procedures in the County Court and High Court
- The Criminalisation of Trespass
- The Enshrined Right to Travel : The Bromley Case
- The Heart and Soul of the Nomad Nation
- The Law on Consultations and the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government Consultation on Powers regarding Unauthorised Development and Encampments
- The Ministry of Injustice?
- The Unlawful Use of Public Spaces Protection Orders
- Town-Wide Injunction
- Travellers Advice Line
- Travellers in Birmingham
- Travelling to a Better Future
- Two transfers of the legal title to a property set aside on grounds of duress and undue influence
- Unauthorised Encampments
- URGENT PRESS RELEASE - Injunctions criticised in landmark ruling
- Use Your Vote
- Using A Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut
- Victory for Terryann Samuels in the Supreme Court
- Visit to CLP by Lord Low
- Water Rates
- Wide Injunction Cases in the High Court – An Update
- Category: No Mad Laws Campaign
- Defending Human Rights
- Labour urged to protect Legal Aid Legacy
- Legal Action Magazine
- No Mad Laws
- No Mad Laws - Labour Candidates
- No Mad Laws Campaign Briefing Paper
- No Mad Laws Petition Submitted
- Response to the Petition from the MoJ
- Travellers' Times Highlights Jeremy Corbyn's Support for the No Mad Law Campaign
- Two New Recruits
- Category: Other Legal Cases
- Akerman - Livingstone - v - Aster Communities Limited
- Aster Communities -v- Akerman Livingstone
- Denton -v- T H White Limited & Others
- Emezie -v- SSHD
- Groarke -v- Fontaine
- Hotak and Others - v - London Borough of Southwark and Others
- Manchester Ship Canal Developments -v- Persons Unknown
- Mitchell -v- News Group Newspapers Ltd
- Public Law Project - v - The Lord Chancellor
- R (Ben Hoare Bell & Others) -v- The Lord Chancellor
- R (Gudanaviciene & ors) -v- Director of Legal Aid Casework and The Lord Chancellor
- R (Gudanaviciene & Others) -v- The Director of Legal Aid Casework & The Lord Chancellor
- R (Public Law Project) -v- The Secretary of State for Justice
- Re R (Children: temporary leave to remove from jurisdiction)
- Summit Navigation -v- Generali Romania Asigurare
- Traveller Movement -v- Ofcom
- Water Rates
- Category: Vacancies