Tag: Human rights

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 […]

Ben Amunwa / 11 August 2016

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 […]

Ben Amunwa / 9 August 2016

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 […]

Ben Amunwa / 8 August 2016

What do Judges say about Parliament’s new human rights framework on family and private life?

Quite a lot, actually. And to mark two years since it was introduced in immigration appeals, I’ve made a handy table […]

Ben Amunwa / 26 July 2016

I asked Theresa May to rethink the refugee crisis. Now she might have to.

A letter from the Home Office casts doubt over Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to cut the number of asylum seekers in the UK.

Ben Amunwa / 16 July 2016

Updated Home Office guidance on detention of pregnant women now available

Updated Home Office guidance (Chapters 46 to 62: of the Enforcement Instructions Guidance) is now available, covering immigration detention and enforcement. […]

Ben Amunwa / 12 July 2016

Court of Appeal gives fresh guidance for “invalid” ETS fraud cases

After getting busted on BBC Panorama for fraud on an industrial scale, the Home Office’s approved language testing contractor, Educational Testing […]

Ben Amunwa / 11 July 2016

When is it reasonable to remove a settled child from the UK?

The stream of case law on Parliament’s new statutory human rights framework for Article 8 immigration cases has disgorged another important but unhelpful […]

Ben Amunwa / 8 July 2016