- 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
- Immigration legal advice and representation for children, young people and families
Unrecognised 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 2019Children of single parents: the sole responsibility and exclusion undesirable tests
Where parents have already or are relocating to the United Kingdom and both parents will end up in the UK (or one parent will and the other is deceased) then the Immigration Rules permit them to bring their children. The main requirements are that the ...
3rd January 2019Scottish court muddies the waters following KO (Nigeria)
Regular readers of this blog will, by now, be well aware of the Supreme Court’s decision in KO (Nigeria) which determined the correct approach in immigration cases involving children who are either British or who have lived in the UK for seven years ...
17th December 2018Briefing: how lawyers can help young people in the asylum system
Claiming asylum can be a traumatic experience. Having to relive the worst events in your life while you undergo a series of interviews and hearings is bad enough. It is even worse when Home Office officials are highly sceptical about a young person’ ...
10th December 2018Supreme Court: bad behaviour by parent irrelevant to best interests of children
The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in four linked cases all concerning the best interests of children who themselves face removal from the UK or whose parent faces removal from the UK. The case is likely to be referred to as KO (Nigeria) ...
24th October 2018