Sophie Earnshaw

‘If these things have become normal to you, you have lost something very important. You need to be continuously outraged’ Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Families given a week to decide whether to leave UK voluntarily plead for more time Home Office targets 150 families whose asylum claims were refused and offers them up to £40,000 to leave or face forcible removal

Families are given just one week to decide whether to leave the UK ‘voluntarily’ or not.

Imagine just 7 days to make a life-changing decision.

To uproot your children from school. To leave your home. To say goodbye to your friends and neighbours.

Heartless. 💔

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Ending the two-child benefit cap is long overdue. It was a cruel policy that deliberately pushed children into poverty.

But at least 150,000 children in larger families will still see no benefit because of the household benefit cap. The government must go further.

#EndChildPoverty #SocialJustice

Liberty responds to court's finding proscription of Palestine Action unlawful - Liberty

We welcome the court’s finding that the proscription of Palestine Action was UNLAWFUL.

This case has exposed a deeper problem where the line between direct action and terrorism has become dangerously blurred.

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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws. The proscription of Palestine Action, which categorised it alongside the likes of Islamic State, was the first of a direct action protest group and attracted widespread condemnation as well as a civil disobedience campaign defying the ban, during which more than 2,000 people have been arrested. Continue reading...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

300,000 children already welcomed to UK face living in limbo for a decade under Home Office immigration plan

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The Supreme Court grants Shelter permission to… - Landmark Chambers Explore 'The Supreme Court grants Shelter permission to intervene in case concerning the end of the main housing duty' at Landmark Chambers for in-depth…

Our @sophieearnshaw.bsky.social has been granted permission to intervene in a case that will be heard at the Supreme Court.

This case concerns homeless applicants and the circumstances in which a local authority's duty to accommodate ends #housinglaw
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Council tax reduction scheme unlawfully discriminated against Universal Credit claimants - Garden Court North Chambers Garden Court North's Tom Royston represented the two Three Rivers residents in their claim against the local authority.

In a judicial review claim brought against Three Rivers District Council by two of its residents, the High Court on Monday declared that the local authority’s scheme for calculating low income residents’ council tax liability unlawfully discriminated against them.

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The Cranston Report has concluded that the deaths of those who drowned while attempting to cross the English Channel in November 2021 were avoidable. Phillippa Kaufmann KC,
@jimrobottom.bsky.social, Zoe McCallum & Rosalind Comyn were involved in the inquiry.

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Finally moved over to @bsky.app Enjoyed the quiet since my last 'tweet' in November 2024, but looking forward to connecting, listening, learning, and sharing here #humanrights #law #socialjustice