- Human rights court approves deportation of man who arrived aged four
- There’s actually no right to family life in the UK
- Hospital order not a conviction for purpose of foreign criminal definition
- This is what the Court of Appeal decided about Shamima Begum – and what happens next
- Forced prostitution covered by Article 4, says European Court of Human Rights
There’s actually no right to family life in the UK
Everyone in the UK has the right to respect for their family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. But as a migrant from outside the European Economic Area, what do you actually need in order to be able to stay in the UK on ...
30th July 2020This is what the Court of Appeal decided about Shamima Begum – and what happens next
In Begum v Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) [2020] EWCA Civ 918, the Court of Appeal has ordered that Shamima Begum be granted leave to enter the UK so that she can participate in her deprivation of citizenship appeal. The court also orde ...
16th July 2020Forced prostitution covered by Article 4, says European Court of Human Rights
S.M. v Croatia (application no. 60561/14) is an odd case to read. It is very long, running to 356 paragraphs and several concurring judgments, and refers to a wide variety of international law sources. But its conclusion is straightforward: forced pro ...
6th July 2020Race, racism and immigration in the United Kingdom: Black Lives Matter
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers has shone a light on the ongoing difference in the treatment of black and white citizens in the United States. It is right and proper to think also about racism here in the United Kingdom. As ...
10th June 2020Strasbourg approves deportation of Dutch-born man from the Netherlands
Chucking people out of a country they were born in is hard. It usually takes something pretty dramatic or pretty terrible — or both, as in the case of Azerkane v The Netherlands (application no. 3138/16). The facts Mr Azerkane was born in the Ne ...
9th June 2020No European Convention on Human Rights jurisdiction over humanitarian visa refusal
The European Court of Human Rights has declined an invitation to extend the jurisdiction of the Convention to cover applications made for a visa to enter a given country and claim asylum. In M.N. and Others v. Belgium (application no. 3599/18), the St ...
4th June 2020