The UK in the European Convention: fudge, or a shining example?
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Detention Action's appeal to suspend the Detained Fast Track system is dismissed by Court of Appeal
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Following earlier High Court judgment, Court of Appeal refuses to suspend the Detained Fast Track (DFT) system for asylum applicants
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford baffled by Government's hostile student visa system
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Professor Andrew Hamilton asks why Government policy is limiting one of the UK's most effective generators of overseas revenue
Home Office to share immigration data with Ireland under new Memorandum of Understanding
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UK and Ireland to exchange immigration information and new British-Irish Visa Scheme to allow visitors to travel to both countries on a single visa
Conservatives' British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities will break formal link between British courts and ECtHR
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Conservative Party announces proposals to repeal Human Rights Act and end pre-eminence of ECtHR judgments
Ban Ki-moon: Never before in UN history have we had so many refugees and asylum-seekers
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UN Secretary-General says a multitude of global crises has caused a record level of displacement and calls on the international community to respond
IOM, Amnesty International document the perils and growing death toll of irregular migration
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New reports by the International Organization for Migration and Amnesty International examine the fatal journeys undertaken by migrants and refugees
New Tribunal Procedure Rules for the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) announced
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The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Procedure) Rules 2005 to be replaced as new Rules, published today, come into force on October 20th
UNHCR: Asylum claims in industrialised countries up 24 per cent in the first half of 2014
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UNHCR releases latest Asylum Trends report for first six months of 2014, claims up overall but steady in the UK
EIN 16th AGM to be held on October 24th in London
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Notice of EIN's next AGM at Garden Court Chambers, London on Friday, October 24th at 5.30pm
Yvette Cooper says Labour would scrap net migration target, Miliband forgets section of speech on immigration
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Shadow Home Secretary says net migration target has completely distorted Government immigration policy and Labour would scrap it
UK and France agree to joint measures to tackle migrants seeking to cross the Channel from Calais
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Britain to contribute £12m to improve security at Calais to reduce irregular migration
UNHCR, IOM raise alarm over the growing numbers of migrants dying in the Mediterranean
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IOM's Director General says the numbers dying off Europe's coasts are shocking and unacceptable, UNHCR calls it an escalating crisis
UKSC Blog interviews Lord Neuberger
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Bail for Immigration Detainees report examines the hidden use of prisons for immigration detention
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BID says over 1,000 are held in prison for the purposes of immigration detention and are entirely absent from published Home Office statistics