- Administrative review countdown starts even if no physical receipt of decision letter
- Not unfair to deny appellants’ parents an interpreter at appeal hearing
- Supreme Court: second or subsequent human rights claims do not attract automatic right of appeal
- No, a visa application sent by post is not an “online application”, sighs judge
- Irish citizens cannot get early release from prison via deportation
Court of Appeal corrects country guidance on Ahmadis from Pakistan
In a unanimous decision the Court of Appeal have allowed the appeal of an Ahmadi who was unable to demonstrate that his case fell within the relevant country guidance decision of MN and others (Ahmadis- country conditions- risk) Pakistan CG [2012] UKU ...
12th March 2019Important new judgment on KO (Nigeria) case and removing migrants with children in the UK
The immigration tribunal has, once again, grappled with the public interest considerations which must be taken into account in all private and family life appeals against a migrant’s removal from the UK. It is now clear that, even where a child ...
11th March 2019Dublin III detention regulations comply with EU law
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the regulations on the detention of asylum seekers subject to the Dublin III removal procedure comply with EU law. Background: detaining migrants before return to another EU country The International Protection (Dete ...
7th March 2019Supreme Court has to remind tribunal self inflicted torture inherently unlikely
The Supreme Court has had to remind the immigration tribunal that self inflicted torture by proxy (SIBP) is inherently unlikely. Self inflicted torture by proxy is the least worst phrase so far devised for describing the idea — and it really is ...
6th March 2019Only standard damages for unlawfully detained rough sleepers
In R (Majewski) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 473 (Admin) the High Court has concluded that EU citizens who were unlawfully detained solely because they were homeless should be paid damages at the normal rate. In the importa ...
5th March 2019Tribunal guidance on raising long residence during appeals process
The President of the Upper Tribunal’s decision in OA and others (human rights; ‘new matter’; s.120) Nigeria [2019] UKUT 65 (IAC) has added another layer of complexity to an already biased and convoluted system. Readers are probably au fa ...
4th March 2019