The Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the UK’s Upper Tribunal is a superior court of record which hears appeals from the First-tier Tribunal. Its website makes available the Chamber’s determinations (decisions) and the decisions of its predecessor, the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. It also provides relevant legislation, procedural guidance and daily court lists.
Section of the Home Office website dealing with the UK’s immigration rules. Provides the current Immigration Rules and an archive of previous versions. Also makes available all the official Statements of Changes in Immigration Rules since May 2003.
The OISC is an independent UK non-departmental public body, set up under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. It regulates the provision of immigration advice and other immigration services. The OISC has information about finding a regulated immigration adviser and qualifying or working as a regulated immigration adviser. It also provides guidance for those who want to complain about an adviser. OISC publications are available on the site, including guidance notes, framework documents, practice notes, position papers and annual reports.
Bhatt Murphy is a London-based law firm specialising in the legal protection of civil liberties. Its website includes annotated timelines, with links to legislation and official publications, covering the following areas: police misconduct; tariff-setting for life prisoners; deaths in custody; immigration detention; parole hearings; and prison discipline. It also has a news page and a set of links to civil liberties websites.
Aegis campaigns against genocide and crimes against humanity. It is a registered charity in the UK and US and a registered NGO in Rwanda. The Aegis website describes its work and makes available its reports, briefings and other publications, in pdf format. It also has a News page.
Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) is the independent health and social care regulator for Northern Ireland. Its website includes details of registered services, guidance for service providers and information about enforcement activity. The Publications page provides review reports, corporate performance reports, consultation documents and other materials.
The Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is the regulatory and professional body for pharmacists in Northern Ireland. Its website includes a searchable register of pharmacists, professional standards and guidance, annual reports, consultation documents and information about hearings. Five years’ worth of outcomes of disciplinary hearings are available, together with details of appeals and forthcoming disciplinary hearings
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the regulator for nurses and midwives in the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Its website provides a searchable register of nurses and midwives. There is detailed information about fitness to practise hearings, including the outcomes of the most recent four months’ hearings and lists of forthcoming hearings; the Hearings page also has statistics going back to 2000/01. The Publications page has standards, best practice guidance, official circulars, annual reports and many other documents
Housing law blog by a group of English solicitors and barristers specialising in welfare law, housing law, landlord and tenant law and public law. The majority of posts are about recent cases; others concern legislation, government policy and other developments. The archives go back to mid-2006. The site includes links to related blogs, news feeds and other web resources
Directory of research and good practice guidance regarding homelessness in the UK, with abstracts; also gives links to the full text of each publication (if available). Has a search facility, an annotated index of keywords, an index of publishers and a tag cloud. The ‘legislation’ keyword page gives a brief overview of legislation in this area, with links to both legislation and commentary. The site also provides a few news items.
