Posts Tagged ‘Community Law Partnership’
Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
In spite of extensive efforts by all boater organisations, and even by CRT, to get the Minster and senior Government officials in the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (now called Energy Security and Net Zero) to include itinerant liveaboard boaters in the Energy Bills Support Scheme, our community has been excluded, along with itinerant vehicle and caravan dwellers. The Government web page for the scheme says that the grant is “under review” for both communities, but there is no information on the reasons for the review or how long it will take.
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, cost of living, Energy Bills Support Scheme, Families and Travellers, Friends, fuel costs, Grant Shapps MP, heating, liveaboards, welfare, Wera Hobhouse MP
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Following a legal challenge by a boater to the decision by BaNES Council to close the moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford, on the River Avon between November and March, boaters can now moor at Mead Lane for 14 days all year round. The river bank there is owned by BaNES.
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Tags: BANES Council, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, Judicial Review, liveaboards, Mead Lane, police, River Avon, Saltford
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2021
Following a Judicial Review challenge by Community Law Partnership (CLP) on behalf of a liveaboard boater, BaNES Council is reconsidering its decision to close the 14 day moorings at Mead Lane, Saltford, on the River Avon between the beginning of November and the end of February every year. The judicial review has therefore been stayed until the end of June 2021. We would encourage any boaters who are concerned about the loss of these moorings to make submissions to BaNES Council: contact Mandy_bishop@bathnes.gov.uk
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Tags: BANES Council, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, Judicial Review, liveaboards, Mead Lane, River Avon, Saltford, Travellers Advice Team
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Friday, December 29th, 2017
CRT earlier this year stayed Section 8 cases against two boat dwellers without permanent moorings, Matthew Jones and Christopher McKendrick, following the Court of Appeal judgement in Matthew Jones’s favour on 7th March 2017, we can now reveal. The Consent Order sealed by Bristol County Court on 23rd May 2017 shows that CRT reached a settlement with Matthew Jones. Both Mr Jones and Mr McKendrick have now re-licensed their boats without a permanent mooring. Their homes are not now under threat of being seized by the charity. Both had been deemed by CRT not to have moved “far enough”.
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Tags: Article 8, bona fide navigation, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, disability, enforcement, Equality Act, human rights, liveaboards, Matthew Jones, Section 17, Section 8, traveller's rights, Travellers Advice Team, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
K&A boater Matthew Jones yesterday won his appeal against CRT’s attempt to strike out the Article 8 elements of his defence against eviction from CRT’s waterways under Section 8 of the British Waterways Act 1983. The case will now be remitted back to Bristol County Court where Mr Jones will be able to put his Article 8 arguments in full. Mr Jones’s solicitor Community Law Partnership writes:
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Tags: Article 8, bona fide navigation, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, enforcement, human rights, liveaboards, Matthew Jones, Section 17, Section 8, traveller's rights, Travellers Advice Team, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
If you have been served with a Section 8 and CRT is continuing court action against you, you need to make a request to the Court for your case to be stayed pending the result of the appeal in the case of CRT v Jones.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, Community Law Partnership, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Section 17, Section 8, traveller's rights, Travellers Advice Team, Waterways Act 1995
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