Tag: Public law
Jeremy Hunt scraps plans to force new contract on NHS junior doctors
I’ve blogged recently about the junior doctors’ new contract and the strike actions across the NHS. It’s usually quite hard for an employer […]
What’s the right approach to Article 8 in ‘foreign criminal’ deportation cases?
Where a foreign national is convicted of an offence and sentenced to at least 4 years imprisonment, the government must make […]
Full judgment in Theresa May’s student fraud scandal
[UPDATE: the Upper Tribunal has now published this case. It is available here, as SM and Ihsan Qadir v Secretary of […]
What does the junior doctors’ strike tell us about UK employment law?
As junior doctors continue strike action against UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plans to impose new contracts, there seems to […]
1 suicide attempt everyday at UK immigration detention centres
There were a shocking 393 reported attempts across the detention estate in 2015: the highest number on record and an average […]
How many students has Theresa May deported unlawfully?
Hundreds? Thousands? 48,000? Up to 50,000? It’s not clear.
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 […]
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 […]