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13 December 2004 |
Law Centre (NI) publishes
Unmet Need, a major new report on the
gaps in advice and support available for people with mental health problems
in Northern Ireland.
Find
out more
here.
Order here. |
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26 November 2004 |
Law Centre (NI) Annual General Meeting
and launch of report on mental health
advice and information services,
14 December 2004, at Northern Ireland Council for
Voluntary Action.
Speakers:
David Bamford, chair of Review of Mental Health and Learning
Disability; and Jim Campbell, QUB Social Services Department
and co-author of the report: Unmet Need - a study of mental health
legal advice and information services in Northern Ireland.
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1 November 2004 |
The
Environmental Law Foundation
is hosting a community conference on
Pollution & Planning
on Thursday 2 December 2004 to assist community
groups and individuals struggling with environmental problems. Find
out more details
here. |
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29 October 2004 |
Website
questionnaire. We are
keen to hear your ideas and opinions on the Law Centre website. To
help us improve the site we invite you to complete a new
questionnaire.
Click
here
to download the questionnaire in PDF, fill it in, and post it to the
Publications Department at the Law Centre. A draw will be held
featuring all completed questionnaires - first prize is a £25 book
token!). |
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29 October 2004 |
NEA demand response to
winter fuel crisis
This autumn has
seen massive and unprecedented increases in oil costs and an 11%
increase in gas costs. The Chancellor has been urged by the fuel poverty
charity Neighbourhood Energy Action Northern Ireland
to announce an increase in Winter Fuel Payments in line with these
increased fuel costs, and to extend the Winter Fuel Payment to low
income families and those with significant disabilities.
Majella
McCloskey, Director of NEA NI said, 'A massive injection of
resources is required not only to ensure that government meets its
proposed target of eradicating fuel poverty by 2016, but also to ensure
that the old and vulnerable in our community are not exposed to great
risk during colder weather this autumn and winter.' |
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28 October 2004 |
New Law Centre
Information Briefing on asylum seekers
Important news for asylum seekers with
children has just been announced. The Law Centre has prepared an
Information Briefing. It is in PDF form
here and as text
here. For those who
qualify for this exemption, the deadline for application is 31
December 2004. |
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20 October 2004 |
Indian Community Centre
interpreting service
Full service of translation and interpreting in all
languages of the Indian sub-continent such as Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Karnataka, Tamil, Malayan,
Bengali and Orrissi. The ICC website is
here. |
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18
October
2004 |
Exhibition
Humans
without rights: asylum seekers in the 21st century
An
exhibition at Law Centre (NI) as part of the Belfast Festival at Queens.
Photographs by David Levene of the Guardian, originally commissioned
by the Refugee Council. The exhibition will be launched on Friday 22
October at 4.00 pm in the Law Centre, then run two weeks. For more
details contact the Publications Department. A flyer for the exhibition is
here. Read the exhibition
press release
here as a PDF or
here
as text only.
Where: Training room of the
Belfast office.
When:
Saturday 23 October until Saturday 6 November.
Hours:
Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10am to 4pm; Saturday 10am to 1pm. (Closed Tuesdays
and Sundays)
A joint
Law Centre (NI) and Refugee Action Group event.
Everyone welcome. |
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22 September 2004 |
Frontline 54
is
out. Order a copy from our publications department. |
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14 September 2004 |
Dispute
resolution. The Department for Employment and
Learning is preparing legislation designed to encourage employers
and employees to resolve disputes as early as possible in the workplace.
It is due to come into force in Northern Ireland on 3 April 05. Details can be found at
the end of the Law Centre's
Rights of Employees notes. |
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8 September 2004 |
Law Centre calls on Des Browne to halt
deportation of family to Sri Lanka. Full details here:
Press Release (PDF)
Press
Release (Text Version) |
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17 August 2004 |
New
Law Centre Information Briefing published.
Irish Born Children
is available in both text and PDF
versions.
Law Centre Information
Briefing Number 11 (PDF)
Law Centre Information Briefing Number 11 (Text Version)
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11 August 2004 |
New
Social Policy
section on Law Centre
website. |
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28 July 2004 |
Rights on Line:
Law Centre (NI) information packs
on benefits, tax credits and employment rights updated June-July 2004.
Read here. |
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23 July 2004 |
New Law Centre Casework
Bulletin online
here:
Casework Bulletin 2004 Number 2 (PDF)
Casework Bulletin 2004 Number 2 (Text Version)
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14 July 2004 |
Frontline 53
is out. Order a copy from our
publications department. |
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9 July 2004 |
Students & Benefits,
a
guide for practitioners advising students on entitlement to social
security benefits. View
here. |
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5 July 2004 |
Details of the
Welfare Rights Adviser Programme
courses in Belfast and Derry are now available. Find out more
about the Belfast course
here
and the Derry course
here. |
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17 June 2004 |
Law Centre Casework
Selection Policy 2004-2005 is
online. This document details how the Law Centre decides what cases
it should take on each year. Access it
here. |
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15 June 2004 |
Tax
Credit Briefings (annual review and renewals, dealing with
overpayments, help with childcare costs, rates for 2004 - 2005 and
sample calculations) now online. They can be accessed
here. |
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3 June 2004 |
Incapacity
Benefit case on relevance of missing papers.
Commissioner's Decision C25/02-03(IB). Read about it
here.
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25 May 2004 |
Immigration news.
Following public consultations, immigration detainees are being
relocated from the high security prison of Maghaberry to more open
facilities in Belfast, albeit still within the prison service. Women
detainees will be moved to Hydebank Wood young offenders centre along
with female prisoners. Male detainees will be transferred to a site next
to Belfast Prison.
The move will give detainees easier access
to families, support groups and ethnic minority community groups. It
will provide a less oppressive environment, although detainees will
still be held alongside sentenced prisoners and subject to prison rules.
The Law Centre and refugee support groups
have given the move a cautious welcome, although they are still
campaigning for an end to the detention of asylum seekers, particularly
in any type of prison environment.
More details on the detention of asylum
seekers in Northern Ireland can be found
here. |
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21 April 04 |
Benefits For All,
a report by the Social Security Agency and the Advice Service Alliance
[an umbrella organisation representing the voluntary sector in Northern
Ireland through adviceni, Citizens Advice and Law Centre
(NI)] was launched at the end of March. the report, written and
researched by Conor McGale (adviceni), Barry McVeigh
(Citizens Advice), Pat McKinrey and Mark Wilson (both from the Social
Security agency) analyses the relationship between the voluntary advice
sector, its clients and the SSA, and makes recommendations to improve
delivery of services by he Agency. It will be available through
www.ssani.gov.uk. |
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25 March 04 |
Frontline 52 is out. Order from
our publications department. |
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19 March 04 |
2004-2005 Training Programme now
online. Download
here. |
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25 February 04 |
Law Centre responses to
social policy
consultations are available from our Publications Department.
Contact
the
department for more details.
Recent responses:
n SSAC consultation on Jobseekers Allowance
(Amendments) Regulations 2003 - December 03
n NIPS equality impact assessment on the transfer
of women in custody - January 04
n Office of Law Reform consultation on civil
partnership registration for same sex couples - February 04 |
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10 February 04 |
Refugee Action Group conference
recommends end to immigration detention in Northern Ireland
prisons. Read about it
here. |
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27 January 04 |
Mental health
research at the Law Centre: Details
here. |
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14
January 04 |
Law Centre adds
Child Support
service:
Details
here. |
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02
January 04 |
Frontline
51 is out. Order it from our
publications department. |
