Event: Migration in ‘hostile environments’ – a 36 Immigration Forum
As the prospect of a ‘hard’ Brexit looms, join barristers from 36 Immigration to discuss the coming changes to immigration enforcement, the rights of EEA nationals and EU refugee policy.
Did Jeremy Hunt act illegally by forcing a new contract on junior doctors?
The High Court is considering a legal challenge by the junior doctors against a divisive new contract. It has potential to be one of this Autumn’s key cases in the public law field.
New Home Office guidance on adults ‘at risk’ in immigration detention
New Home Office guidance on the detention of vulnerable adults comes into force today. [1] Read it here.
EU citizens aren’t “bargaining chips” in Brexit negotiations, warns Home Affairs Select Committee
On 11 July 2016, days after the Brexit vote, the Cabinet Office assured us that EU nationals in the UK […]
I’m supposed to be on holiday. So what am I doing writing this?
View this post on Instagram La Concha, Spain. A post shared by Ben Amunwa (@benamunwa) on Sep 6, 2016 at […]
When is it ‘necessary’ for a child with SEN to be given an EHC Plan?
Special Educational Needs (‘SEN’) law can be something of a bureaucratic labyrinth, navigated with equal frustration by parents, carers, young persons […]
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 […]
On the frontline of the EU-Turkey Deal
This time next month, I will be on the Greek Island of Chios to assist with refugee work partnered with the solicitor’s firm Reed […]
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 […]