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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: endorsed funders (Global Talent visa)
- Guidance: Powers and operational procedure: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: employing or hosting institutions (Global Talent visa)
- 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
- Transparency data: Ukraine Visa Schemes: visa data
- 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
- Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. Will it actually work? | Sunder Katwala
- 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
- ‘Self-defeating’: senior Tories warn Sunak against clampdown on international students
- Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK
- Labour government would halt Rwanda deportations from day one, Starmer says
- ‘Cringeworthy’: what people in Dover think of Labour and Keir Starmer – video
- Rebecca Hendin on small boats and the Eurovision song contest – cartoon
- ‘Hard truths’: how far will Starmer push to show Labour has changed?
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Tag Archives: Kenya
Government loses bid to lower bar for exclusion of extremists from refugee status
The Secretary of State for the Home Department v NF [2021] EWCA Civ 17 (11 January 2021) The Court of Appeal has dismissed the government’s appeal as to the lowering of the high threshold for the engagement of article 1F(c) … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Al-Shabab, Appeals, Asylum, Court of Appeal, Kenya, Refugee Convention, Somalia, Terrorism, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, Court of Appeal, Kenya, Refugee Convention, Terrorism, UK Supreme Court
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Passports: Foreign law must be proved by expert evidence
Hussein and Another (Status of passports: foreign law) [2020] UKUT 250 (IAC) CMG Ockelton VP has explained that (i) a person who holds a genuine passport, apparently issued to him, and not falsified or altered, has to be regarded as … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Dependants, ECHR, Kenya, Nationality, Refugee Convention, Somalia, Tanzania, Tribunals
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Expert Evidence, Experts, Kenya, Pakistan, Passports, Persecution, Removals, Tanzania, Tribunals
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Case Comment: SI (variation/curtailment – human rights ground) Pakistan [2011] UKUT 00118 (IAC)
This brief case makes a hulking legal point. Moreover, it illustrates the games which the UKBA “plays” with the objects of its control. Although the outcome was not in favour of SI (the appellant), the case is quite valuable because … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Dependants, East African Asians, Families, Immigration Rules, Kenya, Pakistan, Removals, Sedley LJ, Settlement, SQVS, Tribunals, UKBA
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Dependants, ECHR, Families, Kenya, Pakistan, Removals, SQVS, UKBA
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Case Comment: FW (Paragraph 322: untruthful answer) Kenya [2010] UKUT 165 (IAC)
Under the common law lies, silences, omissions, misleading statements and false representations all give rise to liability in criminal and civil matters. Immigration matters tend to contain a mixture of both civil and criminal elements when ascertaining a person’s worthiness … Continue reading
British nationality claims: The Case of the East African Asians
How the claim arises (see update here) There is a large population of South Asians in East Africa. Their presence there dates back to the time of the British Empire when large numbers of South Asian workers were brought to … Continue reading
Kenyan constitutional reform: potential problems in Africa’s Asian British citizenship maze
It is entirely possible that Kenyan Asians who were persecuted in Kenya and discriminated against at home in the UK (which denied them their rightful entry into the UK through perverse legislation such as the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968) will … Continue reading
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