Recent Developments in Traveller Law

[Ecovillage Network UK]

Legal Action Group is running a one-day course, Recent Developments in 
Traveller Law, which highlights developments in the law affecting 
Travelling People. It is designed for legal aid practitioners, Traveller 
advice and liaison workers and voluntary sector workers with a basic 
knowledge of Traveller issues.  Local government housing, planning and 
education departments responsible for Gypsy and Traveller matters will also 
find this course particularly useful.

The course is run by lawyers, who are experts in this field of law, and it 
is essential to attend if you want to know about Travellers' rights on a 
wide range of issues ranging from eviction to education and health.

Topics include:

* Eviction
- case law update
- the Human Rights Act and its impact on public authorities
- police, local authorities, government departments and others
- homelessness in the light of R (Margaret Price) v Carmarthenshire County 
Council
- security of tenure on official sites
- new government changes to law and guidance
* Town and country planning
- update on case law and planning policy
- consequences of Chapman v UK and South Bucks v Porter
- development plans, development control and enforcement
- the Planning and Compensation Bill
* Human rights
- positive theoretical UK judgments
- negative practical UK judgments
- ECHR accommodation judgments
- ECHR environmental and health judgments
- update of ECHR Roma judgments
* Race relations
- The Race Relations (Amendment) Act and the Framework Convention for the 
Protection of National Minorities
- race equalities schemes
* Education and health
- the duty to provide health care services
- education issues affecting Travellers' children

Details: 9.30am - 5.15pm, Thursday 25 September 2003 at 6 Avonmouth Street, 
London SE1 6NX, £259 + VAT.

For more information, email Legal Action Group's Training Team at 
courses at lag.org.uk or call 020 7833 7434.

If you do not wish to receive information, by email, on Legal Action 
Group's other Traveller Law publications or courses, please reply to this 
email with 'remove from list' in the subject line.



from  "Kate Silverman" <KSilverman at lag.org.uk>


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