“Around 80 Traveller families were removed from site 12 months ago after a decade long battle, but many are still close by.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Communities secretary Eric Pickles has set out the details of plans announced by him earlier this week to remove restrictions on the use of temporary stop notices, giving councils greater freedom to prevent unauthorised traveller sites being set up.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th October 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The advertising watchdog has criticised Channel 4’s controversial Big Fat Gypsy Weddings poster campaign, ruling that it depicted a child in a sexualised way and reinforced negative stereotypes.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A councillor breached equality laws when he suggested putting a minefield around a travellers’ site in Cambridgeshire, a report has said.”
BBC News, 26th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The ECtHR’s recent decision in Buckland v UK demonstrates again how wonderfully delphic the subject of housing and Article 8 rights has become.”
NearlyLegal, 23rd September 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The European court of human rights has ordered the government to pay £6,500 in compensation to a mother who was forced to leave a council’s Gypsy site in Wales.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Basildon council is preparing to bring back bailiffs after travellers removed from Europe’s largest illegal site at Dale Farm in Essex moved to a neighbouring settlement.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A husband and wife who ‘brutally manipulated and exploited’ destitute men by forcing them into servitude have been jailed for 11 years and four years respectively.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Four members of Traveller family convicted of controlling, exploiting, verbally abusing and beating men for financial gain.”
The Guardian, 11th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A ‘merciless’ killer who gunned down two men in execution-style murders has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years.”
BBC News, 27th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The police failed to satisfy the court that their need for footage taken by TV organisations was likely to be of substantial value to criminal investigations and therefore would be a justified interference with the rights of a free press under Article 10 of the Human Rights Convention.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A council is seeking to privately prosecute two dozen protesters for obstructing bailiffs during the eviction of Dale Farm, after police and the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge them.”
The Guardian, 18th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“News broadcasters have hailed the high court ruling that they should not disclose hours of footage of the Dale Farm eviction to police as a landmark victory for press freedom.”
The Guardian, 17th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Media organisations have won a High Court battle over police orders to hand over film of the evictions from the traveller site at Dale Farm in Essex.”
BBC News, 17th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“On 25 March 2012 the government issued its new planning policy on the provision of caravan sites for Gypsies and Travellers: Planning policy for traveller sites (‘PPFTS’). The policy document replaces both Circular 1/2006 Planning for Gypsy and Traveller Caravan Sites and Circular 04/2007 Planning for Travelling Showpeople and should be read in conjunction with the government’s National Planning Policy Framework (‘NPPF’) which was published on 27 March 2012. Both policy documents came into force on that date.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 11th April 2012
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“An Irish traveller forced to leave an illegal site failed to persuade senior judges today that a local authority should be obliged to re-home him in a caravan.”
The Independent, 21st March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The treatment of elderly people in care is now so bad that it meets the legal definition of torture, the Government’s human rights watchdog said on Monday.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two members of a Romany gypsy family who flew in and out of Britain to pocket more than £800,000 in benefits have been ordered to pay back just £17.65.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The fight for Dale Farm, which saw 80 families evicted from an unauthorised Traveller site after a gruelling 10-year battle, is not over yet. Basildon council has confirmed it is set to start procedures to evict Travellers who moved from Dale Farm on to a neighbouring site.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Moves to create some 800 permanent sites across England for Traveller families will be announced today in an effort to defuse community tensions with settled residents. Under the £47m initiative, new locations will be found from Cornwallto Co Durham for Travellers, preventing them from having to put their caravans on unauthorised land.”
The Independent, 7th January 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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