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Children, Human rights

Can children and parents apply to remain after seven years’ residence?

From a child’s perspective, seven years of residence in the UK can be literally a lifetime. It may be the sum of all the child’s experience and the UK may be the only home they know in any meaningful sense. On top of that, children do not make their own...

18th October 2021

BY colinyeo

Cases, Children, Human rights

“Reasonable” to expect UK-born 11-year-old to move to Bangladesh, Court of Appeal says

The protection afforded to children who are long-term UK residents has been further diluted in a new Court of Appeal decision, NA (Bangladesh) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 953. The judgment is the latest in a line of cases to grapple with what exactly...

30th June 2021

BY Karma Hickman

Cases, Children, Human rights

Reasonableness, removals and children back in Court of Appeal spotlight

The vexed issue of reasonableness, removals and children is back in the judicial spotlight once more in a new Court of Appeal ruling, Runa v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 514. The case involved an appeal against a refusal to grant Ms Runa, an overstayer,...

14th April 2020

All Articles: seven year children

Can children and parents apply to remain after seven years’ residence?

BY colinyeo

“Reasonable” to expect UK-born 11-year-old to move to Bangladesh, Court of Appeal says

BY Karma Hickman

Reasonableness, removals and children back in Court of Appeal spotlight

BY Karma Hickman

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