Key tasks Answering all incoming calls including the conveying of messages. Dealing with all enquiries/visitors to reception. Booking interpreters. Other Administrative Tasks (not an exhaustive list) Scanning. Photocopying. Printing off letters/documents prepared by a typist and fee earners when necessary. Hand deliveries in central Birmingham when necessary. Keeping supplies of forms stocked and ensuring those forms are up to date. Photocopier maintenance reporting and ordering of photocopier consumable supplies. Recording Court hearings in the Court Diary and Fee Earner’s Diary. Preparati ..read more

Wolverhampton City Council and Others v London Gypsies and Travellers and Others https://www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk/news/supreme-court-rules-wide-injunctions-have-negative-impact-on-gypsies-and-travellers-ability-to-pursue-traditional-nomadic-way-of-life The post Supreme Court Rules On Wide Injunctions appeared first on The Community Law Partnership ..read more

Karen Ridge ( sitting as a deputy high court judge) refused to grant injunctions largely because of the failure of the claimant council to take into account serious welfare considerations of the Ds. It is worth quoting extensively from the conclusion of the judge: Conclusions on D3, D5, D6, D7, D8 109. The claimant decided that it was expedient to seek injunctive relief at a point where there was unauthorised development on the land. At that point they had little or no information about the personal circumstances of the defendants, other than their names. The application proceeded on the basis ..read more

Key tasks (not an exhaustive list) • Scanning. • Photocopying. • Printing off letters/documents prepared by a typist and fee earners when necessary. • Hand deliveries in central Birmingham. • Cover for Telephonist/Receptionist. • Recording Court hearings in the Court Diary and Fee Earner’s Diary. • Maintenance and upkeep of the Library. • Preparation of outgoing mail for franking/posting including upkeep of supplies for the franking machine. • Ensure the tidiness of the post room and stationery areas, emptying/loading the dishwasher. • Ensure the confidentiality of all the firm’s and clients ..read more

In October 2015, a certificate of lawful use or development was issued under section 191 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 on the basis that the use of the land had become immune from enforcement. The day after the grant of the certificate of lawful use, the claimants’ solicitors served a notice on D1 purporting to terminate his agreement. No site license has ever been applied for so the use of the claimants’ land as a caravan site continues in contravention of section 1 of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960. The claimants then applied to the Upper Tribunal for a declaratio ..read more

If the person fails to leave the land, or, having left, re-enters it, they can be arrested and their vehicle (which could include a caravan used as a home) can be impounded. It is a defence to show ‘reasonable excuse’ for failing to comply with the direction to leave the land. The new offence applies to both England and Wales. The new offence has greatly increased the already existing powers of eviction. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has raised serious concerns that the proposals are discriminatory and in breach of the UK’s Human Rights obligations. The Advisory Committee on the ..read more

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The Respondents were ten Local Authorities who have or have had wide Injunctions covering many areas of land and banning Gypsies and Travellers from stopping on those areas of land. There were interventions by: Friends of the Earth; Liberty; HS2 and the Secretary of State for Transport. At first instance, Mr Justice Nicklin in the High Court had decided that these wide Injunctions, once a final Order was made, could not bind ‘newcomers’ i.e. those Gypsies and Travellers who had not been served with the proceedings prior to the final Hearing. The Court of Appeal in early 2022 overturned this Ju ..read more

Mr Mitchell rented a piece of land from Rosemary Dean in 2000 so that he could live there in his coach. After Rosemary Dean died, the land was inherited by her daughters who continued the rental agreement with Mr Mitchell. In 2015 they applied for and obtained a Certificate of Lawful Use which amounts to the same thing as planning permission for the use of the land as a site for a caravan. Virtually immediately afterwards they served Mr Mitchell with a Notice to Quit. An attempt was made by us on behalf of Mr Mitchell to argue that the Mobile Homes Act (MHA) 1983 should apply to this case and ..read more