BREAKING 🚨

Yesterday, the Home Office made an important change to the Immigration Rules.

So our client, a former partner of a European national whose relationship broke down due to domestic abuse, will now be able to apply for indefinite leave to remain & access to benefits. Our client was previously unable to apply because she had been in the UK on the basis of EU law free movement rights.

Until yesterday, partners in the UK with pre-settled status were excluded from accessing important mechanisms to support those leaving abusive situations.

Our final panel of the day is underway on #RetainedEULaw, investigating what it means, what its key provisions are, and how it might impact British law if it goes forward.

With @GeorgePeretzKC, @RuthFox01, @Zahra_AlRikabi, @JMPSimor, and Professor Alison Young

#EUlaw "Ministers have been given powers to replace #EUlaw - these powers are frankly astonishing. EU law goes through a #democraticprocess.

"The Bill hands ministers power to replace this law without any democratic process"

@JMPSimor, @matrixchambers on the deeply flawed #REULBill

📣GOOD NEWS:

1. A High Court declaration this week underlines that Cardiff Council must consider prosecuting landlords who unlawfully evict their tenants & that their failure to prosecute anyone in 10 years was a systemic failure.

How did this happen?🧵👇 2. In early 2022, our client spent a week with a friend to recover from an illness. On return to his rented flat, he found his landlord had changed the locks.

Client story thread #BenefitSanctions #ECF

1) Last week PLP’s @MIAhluwalia represented a client in her appeal against 6 sanctions decisions

Our client had been sanctioned 6 times and her Universal Credit payments had been reduced for 665 days – roughly a year and nine months 2) All six sanctions were imposed for allegedly missing appointments, either at a work programme provider or at the Jobcentre.

Next up is our panel session on ‘Brexit and the Constitution: still fit for purpose or broken?” Chaired by Prof Jeff King, with a lecture by Sir Jeffrey Jowell followed by replies form Prof. Richard Ekins, Kate O’Regan and Alexandra Runswick. #JRTrends2018 Sir Jeffrey Jowell of @BlackstoneChbrs begins his lecture with a tribute to his friend Sir Henry Brooke and particularly notes his important work as Chair of the Law Commission