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The Sojourner Project
The Sojourner Project – Protecting women with no recourse to public funds. Eaves Housing was formed in 1977 as Homeless Action. Its aim was to target the hidden homeless – single women without dependent(s) who are least likely to have ...
Read more19.09.2011
Miles & Partners are proud to support Reunite
Team M&P are proud to support Reunite the UK’s leading charity specialising in international parental child abduction and the movement of children across international borders. On 10 September the M&P team of power walkers to help raise vital funds to ...
Read more01.09.2011
Sierra Leone: 50 years forward
Miles & Partners LLP (in conjunction with Freshfields and Law & Development) are pleased to be sponsoring Sierra Leone: 50 Years Forward – The View from Behind Bars – an exhibition of art which is to take place at Tooks ...
Read more02.08.2011
Rights to respect from a social landlord?
What are the duties owed to occupants of social housing by landlords under the Human Rights Act 1998 following publication of recent Equality and Human Rights Commission Guidance? A few weeks ago a judge in the European Court of Human ...
Read more03.06.2011
Surrogacy and the law
We have all seen and heard the recent publicity surrounding Sir Elton John and his civil partner David Furnish having a baby boy named Zachary through the medium of surrogacy, but what does this actually mean in practice? Who are ...
Read more23.05.2011
New European guidelines on child friendly justice
On 17 November 2010, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted new guidelines on child-friendly justice “to serve as a practical tool for member states in adapting their judicial and non-judicial systems to the specific rights, interests ...
Read more21.03.2011
David Jockelson at the House of Commons
David Jockelson attended the House of Commons as part of a roundtable conference of many advice agencies with leading MPs including front bench opposition and a senior LibDem figure. David briefed MPs on the impact of the planned Green Paper ...
Read more18.03.2011
Forced marriage – issues and remedies
Forced Marriage has been an issue in our society for generations but it is only in recent years that it has captured the attention of the wider public and our legislators resulting in the introduction of the Forced Marriage (Civil ...
Read more18.01.2011
Nuisance landlord held liable
Brumby v Octavia Hill Housing and Care [2010] EWHC 1793 (QB) Ms Brumby, an assured tenant of Octavia Hill Housing Trust, had an unusual claim against her landlord for nuisance. The final outcome of this case will have repercussions for ...
Read more16.07.2010