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By freemovement On 24 January 2012 · 3 Comments · In Blog news

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Article 20 of the TFEU: After Zambrano and McCarthy, we now have Dereci…

By Sarah Pinder On 23 January 2012 · 2 Comments · In Cases, Court of Justice, Europe

On 15th November 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘the CJEU’) handed down its judgment in the case of Dereci (C-256/11).  This was a much awaited judgment after the ‘Zambrano and Article 20’ revolution was dampened by McCarthy (see here for previous posts in relation to Zambrano and here for McCarthy).  As a quick reminder, Article 20(1) of the TFEU, [...]

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Immigration rules amended to be less human rightsy looking

By freemovement On 20 January 2012 · 3 Comments · In Article 8, Human rights, Immigration rules, Legacy, PBS

The Government has finally gotten around to amending the Immigration Rules to make them a bit less human rightsy looking. This follows a number of pledges from David Cameron, Theresa May and Damian Green to do so. Paragraph 395C of the rules is to be deleted, as predicted here on Free [...]

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The asylum merry-go-round

By freemovement On 19 January 2012 · 3 Comments · In Appeals, Asylum, Cases

Lord Justice Ward is at it again:

This is another of those frustrating appeals which characterise – and, some may even think, disfigure – certain aspects of the work in the immigration field. Here we have one of those whirligig cases where an asylum seeker goes up and down on the merry-go-round leaving one wondering [...]

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Landing in Dover report on reception of children

By freemovement On 17 January 2012 · 3 Comments · In Children, News, Trafficking

Today’s report by the Children’s Commissioner, Landing in Dover, exposes gross double standards by UK Border Agency officials. The report reveals the existence of a so called ‘gentleman’s agreement’ operating at the south coast ports whereby an unaccompanied child who did not make an immediate asylum claim would be returned to France [...]

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Batch of tribunal cases

By freemovement On 12 January 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Cases
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A few reported determinations from late last year have so far escaped comment here. There’s not much to say about these ‘Ronseal’ style determinations. Lest they be forgotten, though, here are the links and official headnotes:

Haque (adjournment for asylum interview) Bangladesh [2011] UKUT 481 (IAC)

An Immigration Judge [...]

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NS v UK: removals under the Dublin II regulation

By Grace Capel On 11 January 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Asylum, Cases, Court of Justice, Europe
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In the case of NS v UK (C-411/10) (see here for FM’s earlier alerter post), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that the transfer of an asylum-seeker from one EU Member State to another under the Dublin II regulation is not permitted where a failing asylum system in the receiving State creates a risk of inhuman [...]

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Migration Watch: Recovery in Woodlark population “may” be cause of youth unemployment

By freemovement On 10 January 2012 · 4 Comments · In News, Policy
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There was some coverage in the right wing press yesterday about a new Migration Watch ‘report‘ purportedly linking Eastern European immigration with youth unemployment. Migration Watch statistical analysis has been covered here before. Even the report itself claims nothing more than a ‘gut instinct’ though:

Youth unemployment in [...]

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The best interests of children living outside the United Kingdom

By Iain Palmer and Samina Iqbal On 9 January 2012 · 6 Comments · In Cases, Children
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The Upper Tribunal in T (s.55 BCIA 2009 – entry clearance) Jamaica [2011] UKUT 00483 (IAC) has decided that section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 does not apply to children outside of the United Kingdom, although you might be forgiven for thinking otherwise after reading the case.

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Blog changes

By freemovement On 8 January 2012 · 2 Comments · In Blog news
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Regular visitors to the website will have noticed some changes over the Christmas period. A second column has been introduced on the right with Renaissance Chambers and HJT Training information, with both of which the editor is personally associated. The About the blog page has been slightly rewritten to make [...]

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