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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Powers and operational procedure: caseworker guidance
- Visit the UK for medical treatment
- Guidance: Criminality guidance in article 8 ECHR cases: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test (SELT)
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Guidance: Cases involving pending prosecution: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Returns preparation: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: endorsed funders (Global Talent visa)
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: employing or hosting institutions (Global Talent visa)
- Global Corporate Law
- Key Features of the Singapore Convention on Mediation
- What is the test for a ‘one man company’?
- LIBOR: The Final Nail in the Coffin?
- Banking and Misconduct: A Critique of the Cure of Culture
- Court of Appeal Opens the Door to LIBOR and Benchmark Misrepresentation Claims
- Habib Bank Expelled From New York
- Supreme Court: Equity’s Darling and Guidance on Enforceability of Trusts where the Institution is Unknown
- Conduct Costs on the Rise (2012-2016): No End in Sight
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court
- Immigration News
- Rwanda deportation law should not apply in Northern Ireland, court rules
- UK politics: government to appeal against ruling that blocks Rwanda deportations in Northern Ireland – as it happened
- Chelsea flower show hosts garden designed to help survivors of torture
- UK universities report drop in international students amid visa doubts
- ‘We had money! It was brilliant!’ Margaret Hodge on Labour governments, life as a migrant and quitting as an MP
- Child refugees using people smugglers to reach family in UK, report warns
- Rishi Sunak: UK is facing some of the most dangerous years in its history
- Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. Will it actually work? | Sunder Katwala
- ‘If Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to join us’ … Was Natalie Elphicke’s defection a step too far for Labour?
- Home Office faces legal challenge over risk of lone children being sent to Rwanda
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Students, cancellation, curtailment and private life
Fiaz (cancellation of leave to remain – fairness) Pakistan [2012] UKUT 57 (IAC) (22 February 2012) Facts Having one’s leave/visa curtailed is quite a serious matter but to have it cancelled is a lot worse. In this case the appellant … Continue reading
Chief Inspector unimpressed with Agency
Last year’s border row resulted in John Vine CBE QPM (Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency, “the Inspector”) being commissioned by the Home Secretary “to investigate and report on the level of checks operated at ports of entry to … Continue reading
Posted in Arrivals, Chief Independent Inspector, Security Checks, UKBA
Tagged Border Row, Border Security, Immigration, John Vine, UKBA
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Korean Peninsula: “up against a brick wall”
Secretary of State for the Home Department v SP (North Korea) & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 114 (16 February 2012) The Korean War (1950 – 1953), an historic first instance example of the Cold War getting hot, was a defining … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Court of Appeal, Korean Peninsula, Nationality, Refugee Convention, Tribunals
Tagged 38th Parallel, Asylum, Korean War, Persecution, Removals
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April changes to points-based system
The Immigration Rules are changed all the time. No part of the rules has been varied as much as the points-based system (PBS). The purpose of the PBS was to harmonise the old rules which brought about its creation. Yet, … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration Rules, PBS, Post Study Work, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 4
Tagged Dependants, Immigration Rules, Points Based System
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Using children to stop deportation: Part 2
Sanade and others (British children – Zambrano – Dereci) [2011] UKUT 48 (IAC) (07 February 2012) Sanade (S), Harrison (H), Walker Legal Discussion Tellingly, in considering the appellants’ Article 8 claims, the UT (at [51]) – remembering Lord Wilson’s observations … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Automatic Deportation, Blake J, Cases, Children, CJEU, False Statements and Misrepresentations, s 55 BCIA, Tribunals, UKBA 2007
Tagged ECHR, European Union, Removals, Zambrano
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Using children to stop deportation: Part 1
Sanade and others (British children – Zambrano – Dereci) [2011] UKUT 48 (IAC) (07 February 2012) This Upper Tribunal (UT, President Blake and Judge Jordon) case was about three fathers, the appellants, who relied on their family, especially British children, … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Automatic Deportation, Blake J, Cases, Children, Tribunals, UKBA 2007
Tagged ECHR, European Union, Removals, Zambrano
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Drug dealing and deportation
Masih (deportation – public interest – basic principles) Pakistan [2012] UKUT 46 (IAC) (07 February 2012) Pakistan has a significant minority Christian population (2.8 million) and adherents of the Christian faith in Punjab province are often called Masih – literally … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Automatic Deportation, Pakistan, Tribunals
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, ECHR, Removals
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Work permits, earnings and settlement
Philipson (ILR – not PBS: evidence) India [2012] UKUT 39 (IAC) In the work categories under the immigration rules, earnings are vital for extensions and acquiring settlement rights (or Indefinite Leave to Remain). But, as the Upper Tribunal (Mr Justice … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Blake J, PBS, s 19 UKBA 2007, Settlement, Tier 2, Work Permits
Tagged Earnings, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Settlement
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Automatic deportation and proportionality
Gurung v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 62 (02 February 2012) At times immigration cases have significant criminal elements. In this case, the respondent Rocky Gurung – a Nepali national whose father served as a Gurkha … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Automatic Deportation, Court of Appeal, Gurkhas, Removals, Sedley LJ, UKBA 2007
Tagged Case Law, Criminal Offences, ECHR, Nepal
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