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Garden Court North's Professor Javaid Rehman has co-published a landmark report into the inextricable link between labour rights and human rights, launched in a seminar event in the Houses of Parliament last week.
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Garden Court North is pleased to share that Lucy Mair has been shortlisted for the 'Barrister of the Year' award at the Greater Manchester Pro Bono Committee Awards 2026.
The awards will take place on Thurs 5 Nov at the Manchester Civil Justice Centre.
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UK COVID-19 INQUIRY - MODULE 6 REPORT
The care sector was treated as an “afterthought” as Government failures caused Covid-19 to spread “like wildfire” among disabled and older residents of care homes, the @covidinquiryuk Module 6 report has found.
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For Module 6, Garden Court North’s Pete Weatherby KC, Anna Morris KC and Ciara Bartlam were instructed by @NicolaBrook4 of @BJCSolicitors to represent @CovidJusticeUK.
The report set out a number of findings into how Govt decisions affected domiciliary care providers, care homes & people in adult social care.
More than 43,000 care home residents died from Covid in England & Wales from Mar 2020-Jan 2022, many in the early weeks of the pandemic.
(1/3) At 3pm today, the House of Lords will debate the Hillsborough Law during its 3rd and final day of Committee Stage.
Oral questions will begin at 3pm, followed by committee stage business. Proceedings can be viewed live here: lnkd.in/efadx-8n
(2/3) As the families' legacy project, HBL/the Public (Office) Accountability Bill will reshape the landscape of state accountability & legal aid access in this country.
Garden Court North reiterates our steadfast support for a fully empowered HBL, written by Pete Weatherby KC.
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The UK Covid-19 Inquiry published its report into care today.
Our loved ones were failed by a Government that abandoned them and left them to die. Action must be taken now to prevent a tragedy like this happening again.
Here is our statement:
(1/3) Garden Court North is proud to announce that we have been ranked as a leading set across five practice areas by Chambers & Partners for 2027.
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(2/3) We were the only set in the Northern Circuit awarded the Band 1 ranking for social housing, and for civil liberties & human rights.
Our administrative and public law, immigration, and inquests and inquiries teams also received Band 1 rankings.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has allowed an appeal by ‘DT’, represented by Garden Court North’s Antje Kunst, against EULEX Kosovo to proceed in part.
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Garden Court North’s Christian Weaver will be speaking at ‘The Future of Pro Bono: Young Lawyers Leading Change’ event in Manchester on 3 Nov - the first time it will be held outside of London.
More info and tickets below.
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The Upper Tribunal sat exceptionally as a three-judge panel to allow an appeal about universal credit entitlement with significant implications for social security claimants’ access to justice, and tribunal procedure.
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Garden Court North’s Tom Royston was instructed by Will Ford of @OsbornesLaw Solicitors to represent the successful appellant, Mr Dawod, assisted by @CPAGUK.
Read more above about this breakthrough judgment for universal credit award & housing cost provisions.
🏅 LEGAL 500 RANKINGS 📢
Garden Court North is proud to announce that we have been ranked as a ‘Top Tier’ set across four practice areas by the Legal 500 for 2027.
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