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.
Web pages describing the aims and work of the Empirical Legal Research Network at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. The site gives a listing members and potential mentors and brief details of events and current research topics. Activities focus on four inter-related areas: Institutional Orders; Communities and the Built Environment; Families and Relationships; Persons (health and well-being).
Website of the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) in the Faculty of Laws at University College London. The Centre aims to build empirical and interdisciplinary research capacity in the field of law in the United Kingdom, furthering the concept of Law in the Real World and offering programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The site provides information about the research projects, staff publications, events and courses offered by CELS.
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.
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.
Hardwicke is a London-based barristers’ chambers covering many areas of civil, family and public law. Its website has a Resources section which provides case summaries, articles, legal news and two calculation tools for lawyers: a Rent Arrears & Mesne Profits Calculator and a Simple Interest Calculator. There are also sections of the site covering Hardwicke’s work in the fields of commercial law, insurance law, public law and property and private client law.
