- Upper Tribunal: no reason to change Sudan country guidance
- Tribunal finds “centre of life” integration and intention tests irrelevant in Surinder Singh cases
- CJEU: expulsion of family members who lose right of residence must still comply with EU law
- Immigration lawyers referred to Solicitors Regulation Authority over “entirely bogus” cases
- Lack of accommodation does not prevent claim for unlawful detention
CJEU: expulsion of family members who lose right of residence must still comply with EU law
In the case of C‑94/18 Chenchooliah the Court of Justice of the European Union returns to the contentious issue of the rights of family members of EU citizens. Family members like to have rights, governments like to be able to remove family members ...
19th September 2019Government can be liable for costs in Cart type judicial review cases
The Court of Appeal has held that the UK government can be asked to pay expenses where a judicial review has been brought against the Upper Tribunal’s refusal to grant permission to appeal. The test case of Faqiri v Upper Tribunal (Immigration and A ...
22nd August 2019What happens when a deportation order is served on a 17-year-old EEA national detained in prison?
Regulation 33 of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/1052) does not wrongfully exclude the ordinary principles applicable in interim relief applications. It does not exclude them at all. So held Mr Justice Murray in R (Y ...
16th August 2019Trafficking victim successfully overturns ten-year-old conviction
O v R [2019] EWCA Crim 1389 is the latest of a series of appeals brought by victims of trafficking against historic convictions. In this case the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) decided to quash a 2008 conviction because the prosecution had not ev ...
14th August 2019Student facing death penalty for ISIS membership stripped of British citizenship
A student who ran away to join ISIS in Syria has lost a legal challenge to the UK government’s decision to take away his British citizenship. The judgment, handed down yesterday and the first case of its kind in the High Court, is R (Islam) v Se ...
8th August 2019Senior judges despair of “Byzantine” immigration laws
Always a worry (but never a surprise) when Court of Appeal judges start off a judgment by saying that the case “has a tortuous procedural history”, is “highly technical” and involves “Byzantine… provisions” of immigration law. Firdaws v ...
31st July 2019