New Immigration Cases- Rehman, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 1351 (Admin) (29 April 2013)
- A B C v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 1272 (Admin) (22 May 2013)
- Harrisingh& Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 1125 (Admin) (08 March 2013)
- A v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] ScotCS CSIH_43 (17 May 2013)
- Soares v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 575 (21 May 2013)
- Secretary of State for the Home Department v Ahmadi [2013] EWCA Civ 512 (09 May 2013)
- SM (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 533 (10 April 2013)
- Azaroal, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 1248 (Admin) (17 May 2013)
- EO & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 1236 (Admin) (17 May 2013)
- AJ (Bangladesh) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 493 (21 March 2013)
- SB (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 506 (15 April 2013)
- NN (Teachers: Matabeleland/Bulawayo: risk) Zimbabwe CG [2013] UKUT 198 (IAC) (14 May 2013)
- Alarape & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EUECJ C-529/11 (08 May 2013)
- Azimi-Moayed and others (decisions affecting children; onward appeals) Iran (Rev 1) [2013] UKUT 197 (IAC) (26 April 2013)
- Singh (fee award: ancillary decision) India [2013] UKUT 179 (IAC) (18 April 2013)
- Zubair (EEA regs: self-employed persons) Pakistan [2013] UKUT 196 (IAC) (11 April 2013)
- K and others (FGM) Gambia CG [2013] UKUT 62 (IAC) (09 April 2013)
- OO (gay men: risk) Algeria CG [2013] UKUT 63 (IAC) (08 April 2013)
- JL (medical reports-credibility) China [2013] UKUT 145 (IAC) (08 April 2013)
- Farquharson (removal proof of conduct) Jamaica [2013] UKUT 146 (IAC) (08 April 2013)
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- Strike Three For New Rules: Part 2
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- The EU Dimension to Proportionality
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- Can Third Country National Stepfathers Derive Rights Of Residence From Union Citizen Children?: Part 2
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- Roger McCormick On Sustainable Banking March 18, 2013 mkp
- Commission On Banking Standards Publishes Proprietary Trading Report March 16, 2013 mkp
- Is the door to England still that wide open for CIS disputes? March 11, 2013 mkp
- FSA: LIBOR Internal Audit Report March 9, 2013 mkp
- Public Law Duty and Cross-Undertaking for Losses to Third Parties March 1, 2013 mkp
- UK Supreme Court: Case Preview: Securitisation and the Balance Sheet Test February 23, 2013 mkp
- FSA’s Response to Fixing LIBOR February 22, 2013 mkp
- The Libor Scandal and “Soft Law” February 10, 2013 mkp
- The Privilege Judgment February 8, 2013 mkp
- UK Supreme Court: Case Preview: WHA Ltd v Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs January 20, 2013 mkp
- Law and Democracy Blog
- Raja Rental Bites The Dust January 15, 2013 mkp
- Supreme Court Approves Swiss Letter October 10, 2012 mkp
- Apex Court gives Government until 10 October for Swiss Letter October 5, 2012 mkp
- Anwer Mooraj on Dr Kamal Hossain’s Talk September 30, 2012 mkp
- Anil Datta on Dr Kamal Hossain’s Talk: Only the Youth Can Bring About a Fruitful Revolution … September 27, 2012 mkp
- Peerzada Salman on Dr Kamal Hossain: “Young People are Agents of Change” September 27, 2012 mkp
- Welcome speech of Dr. Masuma Hasan: In Memory of Fatehyab Ali Khan: Dr. Kamal Hossain on Building a peaceful South Asia: 24 September 2012 September 25, 2012 mkp
- In Honour of Fatehyab Ali Khan: Dr Kamal Hossain Speaks at PIIA September 25, 2012 mkp
- The New Order: Rapprochement at Last! September 20, 2012 mkp
- The Mexican Standoff … September 15, 2012 mkp
- Pakistan Horizon
- Anwar Rashid: For Parween Rahman March 30, 2013 pakistanhorizon
- Parween Rahman: The Legend Lives On March 15, 2013 pakistanhorizon
- Women’s Learning Partnership Film: Because Our Cause Is Just March 9, 2013 pakistanhorizon
- Dr Masuma Hasan: International Women’s Day and Aurat Foundation March 9, 2013 pakistanhorizon
- Majyd Aziz: Making Karachi Port User-Friendly March 1, 2013 pakistanhorizon
- Dr Masuma Hasan: Uch Revisited January 19, 2013 pakistanhorizon
- Editor: Sir Zafrulla Khan on Palestine November 18, 2012 pakistanhorizon
- Dr Masuma Hasan: Bridging the Gender Gap in Bihar November 14, 2012 pakistanhorizon
- Make Malala Count: Mitigate Militancy in Pakistan November 2, 2012 pakistanhorizon
- Dr Masuma Hasan: Bhagat Singh Chowk Named In Lahore October 10, 2012 pakistanhorizon
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- Woolwich killing: residents reflect on murder of Lee Rigby May 23, 2013 Luke Harding
- Net migration to the UK: down 89,000 in a year May 23, 2013 Mona Chalabi
- UK net migration shrinks further, official figures show May 23, 2013 Alan Travis
- Afghan interpreters 'risk being failed by bureaucracy' May 22, 2013 Nicholas Watt
- Afghan interpreters' resettlement scheme 'does not go far enough' May 22, 2013 Haroon Siddique
- David Laws vetoes plan to force schools to check immigrant status of pupils May 22, 2013 Nicholas Watt
- Some Afghan interpreters to be allowed to settle in Britain May 21, 2013 Patrick Wintour
- Torture victims win test case over detention in UK immigration centres May 21, 2013 Alan Travis
- Labour should cut its ties with the illiberal Henry Jackson Society | James Bloodworth May 20, 2013 James Bloodworth
- People are told migrants stole their jobs – in truth bosses want cheap labour | Deborah Orr May 17, 2013 Deborah Orr
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Tag Archives: Refugee Convention
New Syria Country Guidance
KB (Failed asylum seekers and forced returnees) Syria CG UKUT 00426 (IAC) (21 December 2012) Once the beating heart of Arab nationalism, Syria is a country in ruins. After achieving independence in 1946, dozens of constitutions and cabinets came and went … Continue reading
Posted in Article 3, Asylum, Human Rights, Politics
Tagged Case Law, Lebanon, Persecution, Refugee Convention, Syria, Tribunals
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Child Asylum Seeker’s Detention Held Unlawful
AAM (A Child) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 2567 (QB) (27 September 2012) This case has a lot of faces because the legal issues it raises are quite complex. There is a lot in the … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, UKSC, Iran, Detention, Children, s 55 BCIA, Human Rights Act
Tagged Refugee Convention, ECHR, Detention, False Imprisonment, EIG
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SK (Zimbabwe): mob violence and exclusion from asylum
SK (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 807, please read judgment. SK appealed the Upper Tribunal’s decision on the grounds that, on a true interpretation of the Rome Statute, her acts did not amount … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Court of Appeal, International Law, Persecution, Zimbabwe
Tagged ICC, ICTR, ICTY, Refugee Convention, Rome Statute, SCSL
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Zimbabwe Hearing in UKSC: Watch Live 18-19 June
The latest post on these cases can be found here. The rest of this post continues as originally published. On Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 June 2012, Lady Hale and Lords Hope, Kerr, Clarke, Dyson, Wilson and Reed will hear … Continue reading
Posted in Article 2, Article 3, Asylum, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Removals, UKSC, Zimbabwe
Tagged Asylum, ECHR, Refugee Convention, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Refugee Convention: domestic law defines “lawful”
R (on the application of ST (Eritrea)) (FC) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) [2012] UKSC 12 (21 March 2012) The Supreme Court – Lady Hale and Lords Hope, Brown, Mance, Kerr, Clarke and Dyson – has unanimously … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Cases, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Persecution, Removals, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Refugee Convention, Removals, UK Supreme Court
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Viva la Revolución? new Cuba guideline case
“… Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.” Contrary to what Castro’s close comrade Che Guevara claimed, Cuba is one of the world’s last remaining autocratic communist regimes. Historically, the revolutionary country was once considered a bastion against imperialism. Yet … Continue reading
Case Comment: RT (Zimbabwe) v SSHD [2010] EWCA Civ 1285
The latest Zimbabwe post is available here. The rest of this post continues as originally published. As predicted by the pundits of human rights law, HJ (Iran) v SSHD [2010] UKSC 31 is really beginning to find its application in the … Continue reading
Posted in Article 5, Asylum, Cases, ECHR, High Court of Australia, Persecution, Refugee Convention, Tribunals, UKBA, Zimbabwe
Tagged Asylum, Immigration Rules, Persecution, Refugee Convention, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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French and British joint declaration on immigration
The global economic recession’s bite into British and French defence budgets has opened a “new chapter” in bilateral defence cooperation between these historically rival nations. Emphasising that the sovereignty of neither nation would be compromised as a result of the … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Business, Cases, ECHR, Economy, Employment, France, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Overseas Workers, Persecution
Tagged Asylum, ECHR, Economy, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Refugee Convention, UKBA
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UKBA names Reliance as its new remover
After the continuing saga of Jimmy Mubenga’s death and the UKBA’s subsequent moratorium on forced removals which followed it, has been announced that the Agency’s current contractor G4S will no longer be removing immigration detainees from the UK. The private … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Business, Cameroon, Cases, Dependants, Detention, ECHR, Employment, G4S, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Persecution, Private Prisons, Refugee Convention, Settlement
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Cameroon, Case Law, ECHR, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Persecution, Private Prisons, Refugee Convention, Removals, UKBA
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More evidence of degrading treatment emerges
The Jimmy Mubenga case brought to light the degrading and inhuman treatment which returnees receive at the hands of private security companies such as G4S which are involved in enforcement actions taken by the UKBA. Thereafter, the scandal has been … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Detention, ECHR, G4S, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Persecution, Refugee Convention, Spouses
Tagged Asylum, ECHR, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Refugee Convention, UKBA
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Enforced Zimbabwe returns to resume
The Minister for Immigration Mr Damian Green issued a written ministerial statement on 14 October 2010 that the UKBA will be resuming enforced returns of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe. In September 2006 the then Immigration and Nationality Directorate suspended enforced … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Tribunals, UKBA, Zimbabwe
Tagged Asylum, Immigration Rules, Refugee Convention
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Case Comment: TM (Zimbabwe) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 916
The present case from Zimbabwe is about refugee sur place activity. This is where persons who were not refugees when they left their countries of origin became refugees later because of intervening events. Refugees sur place may owe their fear … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Cases, Court of Appeal, Persecution, UKBA, Zimbabwe
Tagged Asylum, Constitution, Immigration, Refugee Convention
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Homosexuality and Persecution: Analysing HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v SSHD
The Nature of the Case This decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) can be viewed as a spirited effort by its judges to harmonise and converge Western jurisprudence arising out of the UN Convention Relating to the Status … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Australia, Cameroon, Cases, ECHR, High Court of Australia, Homophobia, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Iran, Persecution, Refugee Convention, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Cameroon, High Court of Australia, Homosexuality, Immigration, Iran, Persecution, Refugee Convention, UK Supreme Court, UKBA, UKSC
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