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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Returns preparation: caseworker guidance
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- Guidance: Pakistan: country policy and information notes
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Guidance: Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and leaving care: funding instructions
- Guidance: Visitors and transit: customer service standards
- Guidance: Visa processing times: applications outside the UK
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- 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
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- Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. Will it actually work? | Sunder Katwala
- Chelsea flower show hosts garden designed to help torture survivors
- 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
- ‘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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- Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK
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Category Archives: Asylum
Home Office wins in Supreme Court against Belarusian man with “limbo” status
R (AM (Belarus)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] UKSC 13 (24 April 2024) The Supreme Court has allowed the Home Office’s appeal in the case of AM who was a Belarusian who stayed in “limbo” by … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Crime, Deportation, ECHR, ECtHR, False Statements, Hostile Environment, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Public Interest, Statelessness, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Failure to conduct statistical data monitoring on provision of accommodation to vulnerable PNMAS breaches PSED
R (DXK, Ivory Coast) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 579 (Admin) (15 March 2024) In these intricate proceedings, an asylum seeker and new mother known as “DXK” who was a national of the Ivory Coast … Continue reading
Posted in Article 14, Article 3, Article 8, Asylum, ECHR, High Court, Human Rights Act, Ivory Coast, Judicial Review, PNMAS, PSED, Women
Tagged Accommodation, Article 8, ECHR, Judicial Review, PNMAS, PSED, Women
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Court of Appeal: FTT failed to apply Iran country guidance to Kurdish asylum seeker’s case
FA (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 149 (22 February 2024) The Court of Appeal has held that the UT should have concluded that the FTT had failed to apply the current Iran country … Continue reading
Posted in Article 3, Asylum, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Iran, Kurds, Persecution, Statelessness, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Iran, Kurds, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Court of Appeal: ‘Very significant obstacles to integration’ is an objective test
NC v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 1379 (22 November 2023) The Court of Appeal has held that the First-tier Tribunal had erred in its application of the “very significant obstacles to integration” test set … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Tribunals
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Tribunals
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SSHD’s Rwanda policy appeal dismissed by Supreme Court
R (on the application of AAA (Syria) & Ors) v SSHD [2023] UKSC 42 (15 November 2023) In this judgment, unanimously dismissing the SSHD’s appeal, the Supreme Court agreed with the Court of Appeal’s conclusion that the Rwanda policy is … Continue reading
MQM London member wins in Court of Appeal
WAS (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 894 (26 July 2023) In a difficult case, Elisabeth Laing LJ allowed the appeal of “WAS” against the dismissal of his asylum claim by the Upper Tribunal … Continue reading
Upper Tribunal: Postponing biometrics and entry clearance
R (MRS & Anor) v ECO (Biometrics, Entry Clearance, Article 8) [2023] UKUT 85 (IAC) (30 Mar 2023) The Upper Tribunal thinks that it is open for the Home Office, in line with article 8 of the ECHR, to have a biometric … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Article 8, Asylum, Biometrics, Children, ECHR, Entry Clearance, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Taliban
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Case Law, ECHR, Judicial Review, Tribunals
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Court of Appeal on credibility, standard of proof and appellate court’s role
MAH (Egypt) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 216 (28 February 2023) The central issue in this appeal was whether the Upper Tribunal was entitled to reach the conclusion that the appellant’s claim for international … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Credibility, Egypt, Fairness, High Court of Australia, Immigration Rules, Refugee Convention, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Case Law, Court of Appeal, Egypt, Immigration Rules, UK Supreme Court
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Policy of removing asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful
AAA v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Rwanda) [2022] EWHC 3230 (Admin) (19 December 2022) The High Court has held that the SSHD’s policy of removing asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their asylum claims determined there rather … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Article 3, Asylum, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Israel, Judicial Review, MEDP, Parliament, Refugee Convention, Removals, Rwanda
Tagged Asylum, ECHR, Human Rights Act 1998, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, MEDP, Rwanda, UK Supreme Court, UNHCR
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Supreme Court allows Jamaican criminal’s appeal
SC (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 15 (15 June 2022) The Supreme Court allowed the complex deportation appeal of “SC”, a Jamaican national born in 1991 who arrived in the UK in December 2001 … Continue reading
Upper Tribunal: Guidance on mental health experts
HA (expert evidence, mental health) Sri Lanka [2022] UKUT 111 (IAC) (25 March 2022) This important guidance concerned the correct approach to be adopted in a human rights appeal in which it is argued that removing an individual from, or … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 3, Asylum, ECHR, ECtHR, Expert Evidence, Human Rights Act, Sri Lanka
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, ECHR, Psychiatric Reports, Sri Lanka, Tribunals
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Wrongfully removed Afghan child wins Francovich damages
QH (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWCA Civ 421 (01 April 2022) The Court of Appeal has held that a mere declaration was not just satisfaction for the SSHD’s admitted violations of the rights—pursuant to … Continue reading
Permission to work guidance for asylum seekers breached section 55 duty
R (Cardona) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 2656 (Admin) (04 October 2021) Linden J decided that the permission to work and volunteering for asylum seekers policy of 22 May 2019 (Version 8), was defective so … Continue reading
Supreme Court: Systemic unfairness in fast-track rules did not automatically invalidate all FTT decisions
R (TN (Vietnam)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 41 (22 September 2021) Through this judgment, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal of “TN” which concerned the effect of structural unfairness in the Fast Track Procedure Rules 2005 on individual appeal … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Asylum, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Human Trafficking, Judicial Review, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Court of Appeal, FTR, Judicial Review, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Afghan Refugees in Pakistan: Webinar on 31 August 2021
The withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban after two decades has left the world stunned and the UK rushed to airlift more than 4,000 UK nationals and Afghan citizens, while Joe Biden intends to … Continue reading
Posted in Afghan War, Article 3, Asylum, Karachi, Pakistan, Persecution, Refugee Convention, Taliban, Terrorism, United Nations
Tagged Afghanistan, Asylum, Refugees, Taliban
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SSHD wins in Supreme Court on legality of policy on initial age assessment of child asylum seekers
R (BF (Eritrea)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 38 (30 July 2021) In this case, the Supreme Court unanimously allowed the SSHD’s appeal by holding that she was not obliged to issue policy guidance to … Continue reading
Posted in Article 3, Article 5, Article 8, Asylum, Children, Court of Appeal, ECHR
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Case Law, Court of Appeal, UK Supreme Court
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Supreme Court dismisses deportation appeal of settled Iranian national who lawfully entered the UK as a child
Sanambar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 30 (16 July 2021) The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed Mr Sanambar’s appeal and held that the Upper Tribunal correctly approached the balancing exercise required by article 8 of the ECHR and it … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Automatic Deportation, Deportation, ECHR, ECtHR, Families, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Rules, Iran, Public Interest, Removals, Settlement, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Üner, Case Law, Court of Appeal, Immigration Rules, Maslov, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Trafficking victim’s return from France ordered by court
AA (Sudan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 1869 (Admin) (06 July 2021) In these proceedings case, Wall J decided that it was arguable that it had been unlawful for the SSHD to have had in … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Asylum, France, High Court, Judicial Review, Modern Slavery, Sudan, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, Human Trafficking, Judicial Review, Modern Slavery, UK Supreme Court
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Guidance for lone asylum seeking minors held unlawful
R (Safe Passage International) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 1821 (Admin) (02 July 2021) In these proceedings, Dingemans LJ and Dove J held that policy guidance issued by the SSHD to Home Office caseworkers concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Brexit, Children, CJEU, Judicial Review
Tagged Asylum, Brexit, Case Law, Dublin III, Judicial Review, TCR
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