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Author: Bilaal Shabbir

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Bilaal Shabbir

Bilaal is an Advocate at the Scottish Bar and practises in both Scotland and Jersey, focusing on public law, commercial dispute resolution and offshore trust litigation. He is a Panel Member on the Football Association’s (FA) National Serious Case Panel.

Court of Session gives guidance on transferring judicial reviews to the Upper Tribunal

In JR v Advocate General for Scotland [2024] CSOH 64, the Court of Session has encouraged greater use of the powers to transfer a judicial review to the Upper Tribunal […]

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27th June 2024
BY Bilaal Shabbir

Varying an application for leave will undermine a delay challenge

In Zhou & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 81 the Court of Appeal has re-affirmed the high threshold for challenging delays in decision-making […]

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14th February 2024
BY Bilaal Shabbir

High Court reminder in age assessment challenge of the importance of providing papers on time

The case of R (Karimi) v Sheffield City Council [2024] EWHC 93 (Admin) is a reminder of the importance of filing skeleton arguments in a timely manner with the court. […]

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30th January 2024
BY Bilaal Shabbir

Scottish inquiry finds immigration detention centre death was avoidable

A Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry has held that a number of defects in the system of working in Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre led to the death of a 54-year old […]

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15th June 2023
BY Bilaal Shabbir

Court declines to take legal guardianship of refugee children missing from hotels

The High Court has decided it should not invoke its wardship jurisdiction in relation to missing and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. In Article 39 v Secretary of State for the Home […]

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13th June 2023
BY Bilaal Shabbir

Court finds Afghan resettlement decision was made contrary to policy and without adequate reasons

The High Court has found that the Secretary of State for Defence had not given full and adequate reasons and had acted contrary to its policy when considering an application […]

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19th May 2023
BY Bilaal Shabbir

Court of Appeal re-affirms restrictive parameters of domestic violence provisions in immigration rules

The Court of Appeal has re-affirmed that the domestic violence provisions in the immigration rules are restricted to certain categories of partners and is not open to partners of Points […]

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28th April 2023
BY Bilaal Shabbir

Not all procedural errors need to be remitted says Upper Tribunal

The Upper Tribunal has watered down the effect of a recent decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of AEB v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] […]

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20th February 2023
BY Bilaal Shabbir

Procedural errors should be remitted says Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal has found that the Upper Tribunal should not have continued to decide an appeal itself when it set aside a decision of the First-tier Tribunal. The […]

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22nd November 2022
BY Bilaal Shabbir

New Interim Guidance: Requesting a second opinion for an external medical report

The Home Office has released a new Interim Guidance: Requesting a second opinion for an external medical report/Medico-Legal Report as part of their offender management caseworker guidance. The new guidance […]

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3rd November 2022
BY Bilaal Shabbir
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