The flunky that writes the Home Office press releases really needs to tone it down and get a grip. One of the latest batches of press releases is entitled ‘Tough new rules target bogus colleges and education cheats‘. The words ‘bogus’ and ‘cheats’ are very strong indeed. Yet there is nothing in the press [...]
A new Operational Guidance Note for Zimbabwe has been published by the Home Office. These OGNs are basically central guidance to asylum decision-makers in the Home Office. They contain the Home Office policy on what categories of person from different countries might qualify for asylum.
The new Zimbabwe OGN is a rambling and repetitive [...]
I’ve come across some interesting articles on ‘credibility’ through the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog. This is an excellent blog which records various publications on all sorts of interesting subjects and effectively catalogues them, making future access possible. Links often appear on Free Movement in the bottom left hand feed box.
I hate the [...]
Just heard this at court this morning. Apparently fire broke out at 3.40pm yesterday. Did I notice a thing on the way home, which takes me just past there? I did not. Sounds like no-one was hurt, happily, and that there was a proper conflagration on the top floor. There were a lot of [...]
It very much looks like the AIT is about to be scrapped and merged into the new unified Tribunals Service. This is something I posted on way back in September and it now looks very likely to happen.
The new system applies to all tribunal work except immigration and asylum. All of the tax, [...]
The Government’s disregard for the rule of law grows more and more alarming. I confine myself on this blog to immigration and asylum law, perhaps the most blatant area of disregard for the rule of law, but other examples abound in the news at the moment.
The latest example in our little world is DSO [...]
I noticed in the policy feed in the left panel on this blog that there was an item about the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ). I clicked through and found some interesting papers have just been posted on their website from a conference in January 2009.
I don’t know a [...]
Following a comment on the comments system, I thought I better do a quick update. Firstly, I’ve been very busy recently and as a result have not been posting as frequently or extensively as normal. This is inevitable, I’m afraid, and given that there are so many email subscribers (115 at last count, after I [...]
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- R (on the application of ES) v London Borough of Hounslow (AAJR) [2012] UKUT 138 (IAC) (15 May 2012) 16 May 2012
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- Mumu (paragraph 320; Article 8; scope) Bangladesh [2012] UKUT 143 (IAC) (14 May 2012) 14 May 2012
- Ahmadi (s.47 decision: validity; Sapkota) Afghanistan [2012] UKUT 147 (IAC) (14 May 2012) 14 May 2012
- Buama (inter-country adoption - competent court) Ghana [2012] UKUT 146 (IAC) (14 May 2012) 14 May 2012
- Barnett and others (EEA Regulations: rights and documentation) Jamaica [2012] UKUT 142 (IAC) (14 May 2012) 14 May 2012
- LK (Somalia)), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 1229 (Admin) (10 May 2012) 10 May 2012
UK Border Agency- Removing full right of appeal for family visitors 10 May 2012
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- Service disruption at public enquiry offices 4 May 2012
- Child experts recruited to Family Returns Panel 25 April 2012
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Policy and research- Why asking the public to report irregular migrants to the UKBA is the wrong path to go down 17 May 2012
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