I have written a letter to Robert Buckland QC. A real one, in an envelope with a stamp! It may or may not be read but I am sending it just the same. Others might want to do the same. Someone
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A few weeks ago, I talked about the tweet posted by the Home Office which attacked ‘activist lawyers’. https://thestevecornforthblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/concerning-home-office-tweet-spilt.html This bizarre statement from a government Department was met with universal condemnation from across the legal profession. Law Society President Simon…
Earlier this week a Home Office source said – “The UK has a long and proud history of offering refuge to those who need protection. Tens of thousands of people have rebuilt their lives in the UK and we will…
Here is my review of this important and timely book. A few weeks ago, a comment on twitter made me choke on my coffee. This was the suggestion from the Home Office that ‘activist lawyers’ were frustrating the removal of unwanted…
Congratulations and thanks to my friend Allan Salisbury and colleagues at Compassion Acts UK, who manage a Southport Foodbank, for successfully pursuing judicial review proceedings against the DWP in relation to a shocking injustice in the Universal Credit rules. They…