A few weeks ago David Cameron suggested that private landlords should be required to check the immigration status of tenants. Now, lo and behold, the measure is to be included in a new Immigration Bill announced in the ... Read more
There are some detailed blog posts to come on some of the more important things that happened in the last fortnight, but for those who missed their beloved Free Movement updates here is a brief round up of ... Read more
Back from holidays but lots of catching up to do. Lots of immigration Stuff seems to have happened in the last two weeks!
As most of you know, Renaissance Chambers has developed expertise in conducting Tamil asylum claims. The issues involved in these cases have been previously covered on Free Movement here and these include in ... Read more
Free Movement is now away on holiday for a couple of weeks. The blog has been a bit quiet the last week, for which I apologise – I’ve been poorly and anything more than Twitter has been a bit of a stretch. Better now, though. Dormant posts on private landlords being co-opted as immigration snoops, the consultation on new tribunal procedure rules (more exciting than it sounds), gender discrimination and the minimum income spouse rules and some of the more interesting recent cases all to be resurrected and published once I’m back.
Comprehensive list of LASPO resources
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ACCA not a degree says High Court
Zane has suggested on Twitter he is appealing but this looks pretty authoritative, at least in cases that were decided before the Supreme Court decision in Alvi. Note that the claimant in this case, Syed, had to argue that non binding ‘policy guidance’ changed the meaning of the quasi-statutory immigration rules. For cases after July 2012, if there are any, the legal arguments are a little different.
This post by Frances Meyler and Sarah Woodhouse, Co-Directors of the Liverpool Law Clinic, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, examines some of the arguments that might be put forward in an ... Read more
I recently twisted Margaret Phelan's arm into arranging for me to receive a Kindle copy of the latest (and greatest) edition Phelan and Gillespie's Immigration Law Handbook, known to all immigration lawyers as the ... Read more
Legal aid work has, paradoxically, always felt like both a duty and a privilege. A duty because the rates of pay are much lower than for private work and, arguably, even artificially depress private rates. The still ... Read more