Claimants and Defendants in judicial review claims should be familiar with this new Court guide or they could face adverse costs consequences. In this post, Law mostly gives you a comparative analysis of the key changes from last year's guide.
The Administrative Court has issued…
Following the decision in MM (Lebanon) & Others v SSHD [2017] UKSC 10, new Immigration Rules have been drafted to explain what sources of income can be used by a family wanting to live together in the UK. Those rules are not straightforward, with some details which may still catch out…
R (Kiarie) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (Byndloss) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] UKSC 42: The Government's flagship scheme to deport foreign criminals first and hear their appeals later was ruled by the Supreme Court to be incompatible with the…
Inspectors from the Independent Monitoring Board ('IMB') at Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre ('HIRC') have issued their report covering 2016. Thanks to the Immigration Lawyers Practitioners Association for circulating it.
The IMB report shines a spotlight on the often…
Anecdotal evidence suggests an increase in the numbers of asylum claims in the UK based on sexual orientation and gender identity. As legal practitioners, we are seeing disturbing trends and inconsistencies in Home Office decisions on LGBT asylum claims, especially the claims of young gay…
By Katya Ivanova, Georgiana Turculet, LSE Brexit blog,
Last month the Dutch national Monique Hawkins, who made headlines after the initial rejection of her permanent residency application, was granted UK citizenship. But securing her status to live and work in the UK irrespective of the outcome of Brexit negotiations has come at a price.…
Advocate General Bot has released his Opinion on a test case regarding the freedom of movement rights of dual citizens resident in the UK under EU law, after a reference for a preliminary ruling from the High Court in Lounes v SS of the Home Department [2016] EWCH 436 (Admin).
The Facts…
As we reported on EIN in November, the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) and Liverpool Law Clinic published a comprehensive, 100-page best practice guide on statelessness and applications for leave to remain.
You can download your copy of the guide here.
We recently…
The Court of Appeal has, today, dismissed an appeal which sought to challenge the continued application of rule 353 of the Immigration Rules to further human rights submissions. In R (Robinson) v SSHD [2017] EWCA Civ 316, the Appellant argued that amendments made in the Immigration Act…
By Christopher Bertram, Devyani Prabhat & Helena Wray, openDemocracy,
The UK Supreme Court has accepted the principle of a minimum income requirement for bringing family members into Britain, but hope remains for British families split by borders.
For thousands of British citizens and residents separated from loved ones by immigration rules, headlines…
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