From today, 15 April 2015, there will no longer be an automatic right to appeal in Extradition proceedings. Section 160 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, changes the law so that applications for leave appeal have to be made to the High Court and a judge will…
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights yesterday struck the complaint in M.E. v Sweden from its list. In doing so, the Court missed a key opportunity to make a significant statement on the treatment of individuals in Council of Europe states who seek asylum on the grounds…
Newly released last month from the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) was a judicial analysis of Article 15(c) of Council Directive 2011/95/EU (the recast Qualification Directive).
The full report — Article 15(c) Qualification Directive (2011/95/EU) - A judicial analysis — runs to 124…
In a notable dissenting opinion in today's European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case of S.J. v. Belgium (Application no. 70055/10), Judge Pinto de Albuquerque has spoken out strongly on the protection of the human rights of seriously ill migrants in Europe and the "unfortunate…
Singh and Khalid v SSHD [2015] EWCA Civ 74
These two appeals the assessment of article 8 ECHR claims in immigration cases. It is an important addition to the current cases on which rules apply to applications for leave to enter or remain made before the new Immigration Rules came into…
Factual Background
The respondent was a Jamaican national who claimed asylum in the UK on the basis that he would be persecuted in Jamaica because he was a homosexual. However, the appellant considered that "in general" there was "no serious risk of persecution" in…
By Sarah Campbell, Bail for Immigration Detainees via openDemocracy,
Last Monday 2nd March, Channel 4 news screened disturbing footage from an undercover investigation into Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire, England. Staff were filmed referring to the asylum-seeking and migrant women held there as "animals", "…
Today the Government has published its migration statistics for 2014, which include the annual asylum figures.
As we are all aware, the truth about asylum is often in short supply, with the same old myths and scare stories peddled again and again.
At the Refugee Council, we believe it's…
On 6 April 2013, the UK Border Agency's statelessness determination procedure was incorporated into new immigration rules. Statelessness has been an issue on the international legal agenda since World War Two, after which the UN promulgated the 1954 Statelessness Convention. The UK…
BB, PP, U and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 9 (23 January 2015)
This was an appeal by Algerian nationals who had been found by the Special Immigration and Appeals Commission (SIAC) to constitute a threat to UK national security, against deportation…
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