Urgent injunction training
Following the furore over immigration lawyers getting named and shamed in the High Court for their actual or alleged misdemeanours I thought it might be timely to arrange some training on urgent immigration ... Read more
Category Archives: CPD
Skills workshop
Just a quick one to flag up that HJT Training is running a series of skills workshops with the excellent and inspiring Julian Bild as the trainer. Julian, formerly of RLC, Wilson and Co, Tyrer Roxburgh and IAS, has ... Read more
Watch out old work permit holders…
Back on 6 April 2011 the UK Border Agency made a change to the settlement rules for work permit holders who had entered the UK before the Points Based System was introduced. The change required a work permit holder to ... Read more
Turf war’s genesis
Pierce Glynn and Stephen Knaffler QC have broadened the path (pun intended*) with SL and Westminster City Council (The Medical Foundation and Mind intervening) [2011] EWCA Civ 954. The case concerns a failed asylum ... Read more
Deaths in detention centres
The news coverage over the weekend reporting on the very recent deaths of three men in detention centres is yet another reminder that the system is, in my view, truly abhorrent. The Guardian reported that two men died ... Read more
Claim CPD hours through the blog
It is now possible to claim CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points through the blog, in conjunction with HJT Training. The poll a couple of weeks ago suggested that there is a reasonable level of interest in ... Read more
New bail guidance and AVID Handbook
I have started to think about the Herculean (perhaps Sisyphean a better analogy? - ed.) task of updating the HJT Immigration Manual, something I do at least once per year. This year there is a LOT to change, and I'm ... Read more
More tribunal decisions
Another series of edictsreported cases has been handed down by the Upper Tribunal. Official headnotes and links to the BAILII judgments are included below. I've also thrown in another couple of cases that slipped out ... Read more
Consultation on family migration: Tories to reintroduce ‘primary purpose’ rule
The Government yesterday launched another consultation on restricting immigration, this time family immigration. The splash on the UKBA website is here, the Ministerial statement here, the consultation document ... Read more
CPD hours through Free Movement
Free Movement is planning to launch a scheme to allow regular readers who are barristers, solicitors or OISC advisers to claim some CPD hours by reading the blog and then answering multiple choice questions. This would ... Read more