…agreement to pay towards the outstanding amounts owed under Supreme Court order in the judgement dated (21/03/2019) draws a direct connection between your family, yourself and the Supreme Court judgment…
15th August 2022…drowned When is exploitation a “commercial activity”? Supreme Court decides Basfar v Wong Syrian refugee loses High Court bid to get immigration appointment fee refunded (mention) Borders inspector slams “ineffective…
12th August 2022…an earlier Court of Appeal ruling about the meaning of “unduly harsh” in cases affecting children, the Home Office was attempting to persuade the Supreme Court to follow a different…
21st July 2022…falls within the exception to a diplomat’s immunity from civil suit? When this arose several years ago in Al-Malki v Reyes [2017] UKSC 61, the Supreme Court did not find…
6th July 2022…such a penalty by the Canadian Supreme Court, for example (B010 v Canada [2015] SCC 58, at paragraphs 57 and 63). The United Kingdom’s proposal to create two different classes…
22nd June 2022…the Supreme Court seemed to think being a criminal showed positive robustness. Few if any of the Justices of the Supreme Court have experience in the criminal justice system and…
16th June 2022Practitioners will no doubt be aware of the Supreme Court’s decision in AM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 17. The justices endorsed the European…
19th May 2022…conclusion in the Supreme Court, considering the express reservation of her position to do so. The court’s decision also confirms that there is nothing in domestic law to prevent the…
18th March 2022…place of that of the Home Secretary; its hands were tied by the Supreme Court decision in Shamima Begum that the courts must give the Home Secretary’s assessment due respect….
10th March 2022…the outcome of the appeal (the government had won). The Supreme Court requested removal of the tweet, which was not done. The court itself notified the media that the information…
17th February 2022…psychiatrist, who had recommended that she get indefinite leave to be treated for complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Relationship between ECAT and the discretionary leave policy Recent Supreme Court judgments The…
16th February 2022The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the level at which the government has set the fees for children to register as British citizens. The court held that the…
2nd February 2022…in a case of this kind”. The tribunal also refused permission to argue a new ground in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Begum [2021] UKSC 7: that the…
24th January 2022…Court of Appeal game-changer for validity and continuous residence Deportation (8.52) The effect of deportation on children: Imran case reversed Deportation law up for MORE revision: Supreme Court to hear…
14th January 2022…on immigration bail and the need to object court orders even where they are invalid and Fratila on benefits and pre-settled status. There are more Supreme Court decisions to come…
1st January 2022…Court of Appeal allowed their appeals. The Secretary of State now appeals to the Supreme Court. The issue is: In what circumstances is it “unduly harsh” to deport a foreign…
21st December 2021…their conduct, character and associations. The Court of Appeal considered this provision in Hussain & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 2781. The court…
6th December 2021…ruling in their favour in the Court of Appeal. The UK government took the case to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, in July 2021, the Court of Justice of…
1st December 2021…answer is quite a lot, but not too much. The background to this case is the Supreme Court decision in Begum, which was decided after the SIAC judgment under appeal….
26th November 2021…Court of Appeal was refused permission. Then came the Supreme Court decision in R (Pathan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 41. See here for a…
24th November 2021…defective order of a court or tribunal without first having that order set aside or varied. The answer, the Supreme Court has concluded unanimously, is no. The facts The Home…
20th October 2021…as a result of somewhat contradictory decisions, as alluded to by the Supreme Court in KO (Nigeria) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] UKSC 53…
18th October 2021The fact that the Detained Fast Track asylum appeal process was systemically unfair doesn’t mean it was automatically unfair in every case decided under it, according to the Supreme Court….
22nd September 2021…discuss asylum, including a disappointing Supreme Court decision on age assessment, before concluding with the latest on immigration appeals. If you would like to claim CPD points for reading the…
10th September 2021…Upper Tribunal has found that the “modified” (for which, read “lowered”) test for Article 3 breach in medical treatment cases – enthusiastically endorsed by the Supreme Court in AM (Zimbabwe)…
16th August 2021…we begin with a Supreme Court decision on deportation and some developments on immigration judicial reviews. We then move to business immigration, where a new type of visa has just…
13th August 2021…this case up shortly after the High Court’s judgment was published. All of the commentary on that judgment remains good in light of the Court of Appeal’s decision, so we…
5th August 2021In paragraph 121 of the Supreme Court’s decision in G v G [2021] UKSC 9, decided in March 2021, Lord Stephens held: a child named as a dependant on the…
5th August 2021The Supreme Court has upheld the policy of treating asylum seekers who claim to be children as adults if two Home Office officials think that the person looks significantly over…
2nd August 2021…the court or tribunal itself, as the Supreme Court explained in R(A) v London Borough of Croydon [2009] UKSC 8. The process is set out in guidance rather than legislation….
20th July 2021In Sanambar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 2 the Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal against deportation of an Iranian citizen who arrived in the…
16th July 2021…on the Supreme Court when it comes to decide the Fratila case, also on pre-settled status and access to benefits, in light of the Court of Justice’s findings in CG….
16th July 2021…defined in such a way as to overrule the Shah and Islam and Fornah cases from the Supreme Court but that is unlikely to affect that many cases. Clause 29…
6th July 2021…the Supreme Court’s decision in KO (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] UKSC 53. In that case, the Supreme Court held that the only relevant consideration…
30th June 2021…suffered a big blow with the 2017 Supreme Court decision of Kiarie and Byndloss. Part of the court’s criticisms of the system was around the difficulties of giving evidence remotely,…
17th May 2021…only country seeking to penalise refugees for assisting other refugees. Canada introduced laws criminalising such behaviour. But in 2015 those laws were struck down by the Canadian Supreme Court in…
14th May 2021…[2017] UKSC 42, the Supreme Court held that out-of-country appeals may be unlawful when the person cannot effectively appeal against the decision from outside the UK. This might be because…
6th May 2021…is not working very well. Court of Appeal to the rescue Fortunately, the Court of Appeal has now found that the difference is irrational. Lord Justice Dingemans said: In my…
19th April 2021…Supreme Court in ST (Eritrea) [2012] UKSC 12 (our write-up here) held otherwise. Hathaway analyses and criticises this judgment in some detail but, for refugee rights advocates, an existing Supreme…
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