How should Judges weigh the public interest in applications to revoke a deportation order?
Non-UK nationals who commit serious criminal offences are subject to automatic deportation. The Secretary of State must make a deportation order […]
Asylum seekers don’t ‘play the system’: the system has crashed.
Immigration is a gift to every jaded journalist in post-factual Brexit Britain. Take some meaningless Home Office statistics from 2004 to […]
Private life vs public interest: when does integration defeat deportation from the UK?
Theshort but significant Court of Appeal judgment in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Kamara [2016] EWCA Civ 813 concerned […]
Home Office guidance on deportation of EEA nationals unlawful
The Home Office guidance (published on 20 October 2014) contained the wrong test. It is unlawful, imposes a higher test […]
How to apply UK Parliament’s new(ish) human rights framework
Even before Rhuppiah v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 803, lawyers and Judges have engaged […]
Teacher’s regulator acted outside its power in unlawful prosecutions
Teachers accused of unacceptable professional conduct are usually investigated by the regulator, the National College for Teaching and Leadership (‘NCTL’), and, if […]
Did Byron Burger unlawfully discriminate against employees in Home Office sting?
Potentially. But much depends on what was said and done, and how. The raid On the morning of 4 July 2016, […]
Updated government guidance on Albanian female victims of trafficking
Updated Home Office “Country information and guidance: female victims of trafficking, Albania, July 2016” is now available. A quick look at the […]
Justice Minister Liz Truss due to visit County Court in Clerkenwell
She will miss a demo of my advocacy skills on this occasion as my case is finished. New justice minister […]