- Guidance on supporting separated and unaccompanied children to access legal aid in immigration cases
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Citizenship Fees Amendment Briefing
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal): No Recourse to Public Funds Exemption Amendment Briefing
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal): Children’s Rights Impact Assessment Briefing
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal): Best Interests Assessment Safeguard for Removals Amendment Briefing
Comment: Britain’s unaccompanied migrant children should be supported, not abandoned
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children often get short term leave to remain in the UK for only 30 months or until they turn 17-and-a-half, whichever is the shorter period of time. While they may get extensions at the end of such periods often they simp ...
25th July 2019Court of Justice to rule on eviction of children from asylum shelters
States have domestic and international legal obligations to provide suitable housing for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. But a vulnerable young client at the Refugee Legal Support (RLS) clinic in Athens was last month kicked out of his accommod ...
4th July 2019Law Commission proposals could transform international surrogacy
The Law Commission has proposed a new surrogacy pathway, replacing the “outdated” existing laws about having a child on behalf of somebody else. The key provisions of the current legislation have remained relatively constant for almost thirty year ...
11th June 2019Important new judgments 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 ...
15th April 2019Unrecognised adoptions can attract EU free movement rights
Assiduous Free Movement readers and European law aficionados may remember the case of SM (Algeria) v Entry Clearance Officer [2018] UKSC 9, covered in this previous post. The case has now gone from the Supreme Court to the Court of Justice of the Eur ...
28th March 2019Home Office put eight-month-old baby with British citizenship in immigration detention centre
The High Court has allowed a Home Office appeal arguing that it is not necessarily unlawful to put British citizens in immigration detention. The judgment in Home Office v TR & Anor [2019] EWHC 49 (QB) concerned an eight-month-old baby d ...
18th January 2019