by Agency Reporter | Aug 14, 2023 | Briefing
A LEGAL challenge over the government’s decision to approve a controversial new coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, has been delayed until a separate, but potentially significant, legal case reaches its conclusion. Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 14, 2023 | Briefing
NEW Ministry of Justice data, released on 10 August, shows the number of households removed from their homes by court bailiffs as a result of no-fault evictions is up 41 per cent in one year in England. Between April and June 2023, 2,228 households were evicted by...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 13, 2023 | Briefing
THOUSANDS of new doctors, fresh out of medical school and who joined the English NHS only this month, are joining picket lines up and down the country. A fifth round of strike action by junior doctors in England began at 7am on 11 August, and is scheduled to continue...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 12, 2023 | Briefing
A PUBLICLY-OWNED energy company could see a £3 return for every £1 of investment – generating “a mammoth £140 billion” for the economy by 2040, according to new Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis. The TUC says a national energy company could lower household bills,...
by Staff Writer | Aug 12, 2023 | Briefing
THE United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has set out his highly anticipated proposals for a UN framework convention on tax, putting the global tax system on course for the biggest shake-up in history. The Secretary-General’s proposals unequivocally call...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 11, 2023 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH undertaken by the Local Government Association (LGA) reveals that councils in England could face an extra bill of £18 million to deal with new government housing standards. Good quality social housing is essential for people and local councils will always...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 11, 2023 | Briefing
THE Australian government should introduce a national Human Rights Act to better protect the fundamental rights of everyone in Australia, Human Rights Watch said in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights. “Existing laws in Australia protect...
by Staff Writer | Aug 10, 2023 | Briefing
JACQUELINE McKenzie leads a team of lawyers who specialise in immigration and civil rights cases at law firm Leigh Day. She was a member of the independent advisory group that delivered the Windrush Lessons Learned Review in March 2020, which led to an official...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 10, 2023 | Briefing
VISITING COLOMBIA on 8-11 August, a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation has expressed solidarity with the Colombian government, churches and people as they collaborate in the design, implementation and advocacy for the construction of peace in the country. Led...
by Staff Writer | Aug 9, 2023 | Briefing
JESUIT Refugee Service UK (JRS UK) released the following statement on 7 August, in response to the news that asylum seekers had been moved on to the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland harbour, Dorset. JRS UK are outraged to learn that people seeking asylum have now...
