The law should not punish children for the sins of their parents. If anything it should shield them from the consequences, wherever possible.
But if the children belong to a 'foreign criminal', as defined by the UK's deportation regime, 'punish away' seems to be the…
By Matrix Legal Support Service, UK Supreme Court Blog,
R (O) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 19, on appeal from: [2014] EWCA Civ 990: The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal concerning the appellant's challenge to her continued detention in Immigration Removal Centres which had resulted in her poor…
I’m on a packed Piccadilly Line train in rush hour. I’m going to provide moral support to a former member of the Write to Life Group, at her asylum appeal hearing at the First Tier Immigration Tribunal - somewhere near Heathrow Airport.
The TfL website gave me four different…
Torture is universally held in open contempt by the UK legal system. Except, of course, in national security cases, where the evidence of UK complicity in torture overseas may be kept secret, as the High Court case of Kamoka & Ors v The Security Service & Ors [2016] EWHC 769 (QB)…
Where a foreign national is convicted of an offence and sentenced to at least 4 years imprisonment, the government must make a deportation order against them.
If that person then appeals against the deportation order on the grounds that the decision breaches their rights to family and…
The European Union’s response to the migration crisis that began in 2015 has had two distinct phases. While there was initial support for humanitarian solutions to the increasing number of people claiming asylum, hope for a primarily humanitarian approach has long since evaporated.
The…
University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre
Annual Lecture 2016
Making Judgments on Human Rights Issues
Sir Rabinder Singh
1. It is a great pleasure to return to the University of Nottingham, especially as I have such fond memories of being a junior lecturer here, more years ago…
After no fewer than five emergency summits, a solution to Europe's refugee crisis remains elusive. The list of failures is long and growing including the failure to deliver "hotspots", reception centres meant to process refugees who arrive in frontline states such as Italy and Greece, and…
Samia Wasif and another v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 82
What is the difference between a case that is "totally without merit" and one that is "not arguable"? Are either of those more or less hopeless than a case that is "bound to…
In recent days, accounts have emerged of asylum seekers in Middlesborough being targeted for abuse because of distinctive red doors on their accommodation, while a plan to have them wear red wristbands was hurriedly scrapped in Cardiff. Clearly, asylum seekers in the UK are still too…
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