It was with a mixture of pride and regret that I heard that last week immigration judges were explicitly and specifically instructed not to join the Free Movement forum by the two Presidents of the Immigration and ... Read more
Back to more serious blogging and the detention mini series ASAP, but I simply can't resist a quick plug for Renaissance Chambers, the team behind this blog. On Thursday last week we were awarded the tasteful little ... Read more
The UK Border Agency just got permission to appeal from the First-tier Tribunal on these grounds, reproduced word for word in their entirety: The Judge of the First-tier Tribunal has made a material error of law in ... Read more
It will not have escaped the attention of immigration barristers in London that there are some very fresh faces in court acting for the Home Office. 'Operation Present' is back, sort of, with the Home Office having ... Read more
This blog congratulates Zane Malik of 12 Old Square, who was this week appointed to the Attorney General's C Panel of 'junior juniors'. Zane has made a huge impact on immigration law in the last couple of years and it ... Read more
I am back from my very pleasant holidays and thought I would kick off what feels like a new season with some juicy gossip. Many lawyers in the sector will know that ex immigration judges (then plain old adjudicators, ... Read more
In the really very small world of UK immigration websites, someone has seen fit to set up another one called Free Movement. I’ve tried politely getting in touch but have received no response. It seems that there has ... Read more
This falls firmly into the gossip category. Please accept my apologies, the more serious minded amongst you. There have been a number of barristers moving chambers recently. It is such a small world that it is just ... Read more
Hugh Southey of Tooks Chambers, Stephen Knafler of Garden Court Chambers and Raza Husain of Matrix have all been appointed Queen's Counsel, the highest accolade for a barrister. All three do plenty of non immigration ... Read more
I'm reluctant to post on this as it causing so much anger in the sector at the moment and spilled blood seems quite possible right now. I'd rather it wasn't mine. In order to undertake publicly funded immigration work, ... Read more