Category: Immigration
40 percent of UK deportations cancelled, says new report
The latest report from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Bolt, confirms that 4 out of 10 […]
Good news for students deported on flimsy evidence of fraud
The Independent reports that the Upper Tribunal has found in favour of students who had their leave to remain cancelled […]
Fresh articles on housing, immigration and costs
For those of you interested in civil, housing, immigration & costs law, please visit my publications page where I’ve uploaded […]
The awful truth about the detention of torture survivors in the UK
Torture survivors should not normally be detained by the Home Office. But the awful truth is that they are. Regularly.
the justice gap: New secret evidence rule in immigration tribunal lawful but should ‘almost never be used’
A version of my blog on the secret evidence rule in the Immigration Tribunal was kindly published by the justice gap. […]
Dear Theresa… an open email on the UK’s response to the Refugee Crisis
Date: 8 March 2016, 06:38 From: Benjamin Amunwa <bamunwa@36bedfordrow.co.uk>; To: Theresa May MP <mayt@parliament.uk>; Subject: Your first annual asylum strategy Dear […]
Secret evidence in the Immigration Tribunal is lawful but dodgy, says High Court
Fair, open justice has deep roots in the English legal system. But the Immigration Act 2014 and other measures have […]
How not to do disclosure: a government lawyer’s guide
The High Court has made scathing criticisms of government lawyers who failed to comply with their disclose obligations in a […]
A very long detention…
Grzegorz Machnikowski v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 54 (Admin) This is a peculiar case. The […]
Who bears the burden of proving a sham marriage?
Initially, the Secretary of State, according to the Court of Appeal in Luciara Machado Rosa v SSHD [2016] EWCA Civ […]