Author: Colin Yeo

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Colin Yeo

Immigration and asylum barrister, blogger, writer and consultant at Garden Court Chambers in London and founder of the Free Movement immigration law website.

Full text of the Immigration Act 2014 if you haven’t seen it already. I’ve been away and am catching up.

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2nd June 2014
BY Colin Yeo

Born just before the revolution in 1978, a man known only as DA grew up an orphan in Iran. He understood that his father had been tortured for his political beliefs and he was raised by his older siblings. When the time came for his compulsory military service, he was...

29th May 2014
BY Colin Yeo

A child referred to in court only as “Maya” is six years old. She has Spina Bifida and is very severely disabled. She also has severe learning difficulties and extremely complex needs. For the last five years she has received highly specialised medical treatment and has attended a special school...

27th May 2014
BY Colin Yeo

UPDATE: Haleemudeen on remittal to UT: SoS conceded Edgehill applied, no need for deference to post-July 2012 and found disproportionate on Art 8 — Mansfield Chambers (@MansfieldImm) June 20, 2014 The facts of Haleemudeen v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 558 reveal another of those...

22nd May 2014
BY Colin Yeo

I’m now away for a fortnight, returning on 2 June 2014. I hope to avoid all things work while away but have set up a few blog posts and Tweets to go out in my absence to continue to service your immigration updates and commentary needs.

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16th May 2014
BY Colin Yeo

Official headnote: The requirement to prove the existence of “contracts” in paragraph 41-SD of Appendix A to the immigration rules does not itself require the contracts in question to be contained in documents. There is, however, a need for such contracts to be evidenced in documentary form. The Home Office...

16th May 2014
BY Colin Yeo

The Supreme Court has allowed the Secretary of State’s appeal against the Court of Appeal judgment in the case of R (on the application of Fitzroy George) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] UKSC 28. The Court of Appeal’s judgment was previously covered here on Free Movement....

15th May 2014
BY Colin Yeo

In a new case called NA (UT rule 45: Singh v Belgium) Iran [2014] UKUT 205 (IAC), heard by the President and Dr Storey, the Upper Tribunal has perhaps inadvertently posed a number of problems for practitioners. The issues are all quite distinct, making the case something of a legal...

9th May 2014
BY Colin Yeo

Welcome to the April 2014 edition of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month’s update podcast covers some asylum and human rights updates on military service and asylum, the big win for Refugee Action on asylum support levels, an interesting grant of permission by the Court of Appeal on...

8th May 2014
BY Colin Yeo

Welcome to the March 2014 edition of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month’s update covers some immigration news updates, a couple of asylum updates, some hefty EU law updates and a few more procedural issues for lawyers. The material is all drawn from the March blog posts on...

2nd May 2014
BY Colin Yeo
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