R (on the application of EH) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 2569 (Admin)
1 Crown Office Row's Robert Kellar was instructed for the Defendant in this case. He is not the writer of this post.
The High Court has ruled that the failure to consider the continued…
In a case that in some ways exceptional but in many ways entirely ordinary, the UK Border Agency this week rejected an asylum claim by a young Afghan man. The reason the case was exceptional is that he had previously worked with the British armed forces and been horrendously injured in a…
At any one time there are over 2000 people deprived of their liberty because any UK immigration official considers they have breached a control regulation. In a new book, Alexandra Hall argues that what goes on at the gloomy fringes of the immigration system emerges from principles which…
Nazmun Ismail, barrister, Central Chambers Manchester appeared in KM (Zimbabwe) v SSHD [2012] UKSC 38
The Supreme Court handed down judgment in the appeal of KM on 25 July 2012 along with a joined appeal called RT. It deals with issues of general public importance in relation to the…
On 9 June 2012 the government issued its 'Statement of Intent: Family Migration' which set out how the government expected its long awaited new immigration rules relating to family migration to operate from 9 July 2012 onwards. The 'Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules' – HC194 -…
In his opinion for the Court of Justice of the European Union (in Germany v Y and Z, C-71/11, C-99/11) Advocate General Bot has taken the view that the prohibitions in Pakistani law directed against the Ahmadiyya community are likely to constitute a serious infringement of the freedom of…
The media have been much exercised with the way that 'foreign criminals', who are now liable to 'automatic' deportation, are able to invoke the European Convention on Human Rights in order, quite often, to prevent deportation from going ahead. It is actually six years since the 'foreign…
Judicial Review in the Upper Tribunal - HJT's December Conference
HJT Training held a very successful session on the transfer of judicial reviews to the Upper Tribunal on 30 September 2011. Speakers included Deputy President of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Mark…
The HJT Training conference on transfer of some forms of judicial review into the Upper Tribunal was a sell out and the event was a great success. Mark Ockelton, Deputy President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal, revealed a number of interesting points,…
It is a dark day for asylum seekers and their ability to obtain lawful adjudications on their appeals on Refugee Convention grounds. Alive to the 77% increase in applications for permission to appeal in immigration cases since 2005, the majority of which were from reconsiderations by…
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