Got a Kindle for Christmas? Wondering what to do with it now you’ve read the first couple of chapters of Great Expectations and then swiftly moved on to some Sherlock Holmes? You can now subscribe to Free Movement on your Kindle: while away your commute and keep yourself bang up to date with the latest [...]
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 [...]
Following on from last year’s seasonal leak, Free Movement can exclusively reveal a new secret Government proposal designed to cut down on abuse of human rights laws and reduce family immigration into the United Kingdom. The new proposal is said to have originated at the highest level because it was felt the existing [...]
The blog has been experiencing a few problems over the last few days, for which I apologise. The hosting provider moved the blog to a new server accidentally or some such, and everything went offline for about a day. Somewhere along the way some content was lost. I’ve re-inserted the lost posts but have lost [...]
[UPDATE: now done, as you can see!]
I have more or less finished building the new website and plan to switch over shortly. Before I do so I thought it might be helpful for readers to check it out and get back to me with any comments or suggestions and also to test out the [...]
There will be some changes coming on Free Movement. This has been absorbing quite a lot of my rather limited time of late, and there are several significant recent cases that I haven’t managed to flag up yet, for which I apologise. Work has been extremely busy and I have a family I’m supposed to [...]
I finished work on the 10th edition of the HJT Immigration Manual just before going on holiday. It is now printed and available for purchase for £69 (at that price for a limited period, I understand). The contents pages, introduction and first chapter, on immigration control, can be downloaded as a free [...]
Passing through immigration control on my return to the UK yesterday, my wife had to restrain me from taking a photograph of one of the notices that appeared on the UK visual displays at Heathrow. She wanted to get home sooner rather than later and, on reflection, I wasn’t in the mood for trouble. The [...]
I’m off on holiday and am delighted to say that I won’t be back for three weeks. I’d hoped to set a couple of posts to pop up automatically while I’m away but I’ve been too busy packing.
See you in a few weeks.
Free Movement has just hit one MILLION, er, hits. As with Dr Evil, that isn’t actually a lot of hits in today’s world, but for a small, specialist legal blog it isn’t bad going.
Time for some reminiscing…
The first post was on 7 March 2007, when Dr Reid was still Home Secretary. The [...]
Immigration cases- SS (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 155 (21 February 2012) 21 February 2012
- Secretary of State for the Home Department v SP (North Korea) & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 114 (16 February 2012) 16 February 2012
- Sanade and others (British children - Zambrano Dereci) [2011] UKUT 48 (IAC) (07 February 2012) 10 February 2012
- YF (China) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 77 (10 February 2012) 10 February 2012
- A v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 117 (Admin) (08 February 2012) 8 February 2012
- Masih (deportation - public interest - basic principles) Pakistan [2012] UKUT 46 (IAC) (07 February 2012) 7 February 2012
- Othman v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] UKSIAC B1 (6 February 2012) 6 February 2012
- Moussaoui, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 126 (Admin) (03 February 2012) 3 February 2012
- UK Border Agency
- Online appointment bookings in UK unavailable on 21 February 2012 21 February 2012
- Gatwick airport drugs smuggler 17 February 2012
- Biometric residence permits are being introduced for more immigration categories 14 February 2012
- Changes to Tier 1 application requirements 13 February 2012
- New student rules to welcome the brightest and best while tackling abuse 13 February 2012
- Immigration news
- 35 years for Nikitta Grender's killer 22 February 2012
- S Korea urges China on refugees 22 February 2012
- Somalia: UK weighs up air strikes against rebels 22 February 2012
- Letters: The UKBA and child asylum seekers 22 February 2012
- Somali community in Britain begins to find its voice 22 February 2012
- Policy and research
- New migrants need better quality private rented housing 22 February 2012
- Shock Horror News! Inspection shows it doesn’t really matter that not all passengers are subjected to the full rigour of identity checks at borders 21 February 2012
- A manifesto on migration and integration for the next Mayor of London 20 February 2012
- The story of MRN (so far...) 20 February 2012
- The Legal Aid Bill - last chance to act 20 February 2012
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