‘A High Court judge has ruled that a council has the power to provide support for a disabled child even when his Roma Gypsy family are working in different parts of the country and outside the council’s borders.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th December 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“A High Court judge has given a group of Romany Travellers permission for a judicial review over a council’s decision to evict them from an unauthorised site on Green Belt land.”
Local Government Lawyer, 18th November 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“Legal proceedings start against a group of French travellers occupying a hospital car park in Newport, south Wales.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Where a planning decision engaged a child’s right to private and family life that child’s best interests would be a primary consideration for the decision-maker.”
WLR Daily, 9th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A couple who spent their retirement savings on a caravan only to see it stolen were astounded when police said the travellers who are living in it could not be removed as it would breach their ‘human rights’.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A pensioner renowned for her work in the community has been summonsed to court over claims she racially abused a group of travellers on green belt land in a situation she describes as a ‘humiliating’ ordeal.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Marc Willers examines why changes to temporary stop notice provisions risk forcing Gypsies and Travellers onto the roadside.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 15th July 2013
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“As the judge explicitly recognised, this case raised the clash of two principles – how to resolve the policy-driven field of planning with the rights of family under Article 8 ECHR and of the child under Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Councils will be given stronger powers to stop illegal Travellers’ sites being set up, communities and local government secretary Eric Pickles has announced.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Villagers who have spent almost three years blockading an illegal gipsy camp
declared victory after a High Court judge ordered the travellers to leave.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Travellers living at the side of the road near the former Dale Farm site face being evicted for a second time after Basildon council, in Essex, voted to take ‘direct action’ to remove the families who remain.”
The Guardian, 19th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five members of a traveller family who were found guilty of keeping their own private workforce have been jailed.”
BBC News, 19th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings unfairly racially stereotyped the UK’s Gypsy and Traveller communities.”
The Guardian, 15th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Around 80 Traveller families were removed from site 12 months ago after a decade long battle, but many are still close by.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Communities secretary Eric Pickles has set out the details of plans announced by him earlier this week to remove restrictions on the use of temporary stop notices, giving councils greater freedom to prevent unauthorised traveller sites being set up.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th October 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The advertising watchdog has criticised Channel 4’s controversial Big Fat Gypsy Weddings poster campaign, ruling that it depicted a child in a sexualised way and reinforced negative stereotypes.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A councillor breached equality laws when he suggested putting a minefield around a travellers’ site in Cambridgeshire, a report has said.”
BBC News, 26th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The ECtHR’s recent decision in Buckland v UK demonstrates again how wonderfully delphic the subject of housing and Article 8 rights has become.”
NearlyLegal, 23rd September 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The European court of human rights has ordered the government to pay £6,500 in compensation to a mother who was forced to leave a council’s Gypsy site in Wales.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Basildon council is preparing to bring back bailiffs after travellers removed from Europe’s largest illegal site at Dale Farm in Essex moved to a neighbouring settlement.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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