Last autumn's huge loss of lives near Lampedusa, when hundreds of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean, was one of the latest and most dramatic death tolls in the recent history of irregular crossing of that sea. It ought to have led to a complete rethink of EU policy toward border…
The Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, delivered a speech to a select group of key stakeholders, ranging from business to NGOs, in front of a 'One Nation Labour' projection. An interesting intervention a month before the European and local elections in the UK.
The Labour Party has long…
Context
Directive 2004/38 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely grants qualifying Union citizens rights of residence in Member States other than their own, and allows family members to derive rights of residence from the Union citizen. As…
International students all have the added step of applying for their UK study visa. With the extensive amount of organisation that goes into preparing to study abroad, the application process for a student visa can often be seen as nothing more than a daunting hassle.
The UK has a points…
My first encounter with the importance of a much deeper and wider knowledge of decisions in cases and factual backgrounds which could have an impact on immigration appeals, with which I had become involved as an adjudicator way back in 1979, was when I was dished out with the limited…
EM (Eritrea) and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] UKSC 12
The Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal's decision on the correct test for when an asylum seeker or refugee resists their return to another EU country (here Italy) in which they first sought…
The case of ZZ v SSHD [2014] EWCA Civ 7 shows that, in certain circumstances, the European Charter may come to an individual's rescue in terms of procedural protection even when the European Convention of Human Rights does not apply. While this news will no doubt be of concern to some…
The business of the law can tend to harden the heart – but every now and then a case comes along that drives off the spectre of compassion fatigue. This was the effect of a recent libel claim in which I obtained substantial damages and published apologies for a 20-year-old Afghan…
By Professor Madeleine Arnot and Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge Migration Research Network,
Professor Madeleine Arnot and Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Co-Convenors of the new Cambridge Migration Research Network, discuss the Network's rationale and aims, and our preoccupation with the impact of migrant populations.
Immigration and migration have become symbolic of the 21st…
The Court of Appeal has today allowed an appeal by a woman who was unlawfully detained by the Home Office despite being seriously mentally ill. The judgment gives importance guidance on when the Home Secretary can lawfully detain people with serious mental illnesses who are liable to be…
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