The Court of Appeal has issued a welcome corrective to the tribunals, telling them not to impose an “unrealistic evidential burden” on asylum applicants who
The latest report from Dr Jo Wilding, “No Access to Justice 2” looks at the continuing immigration and asylum legal aid crisis. This is an
An appellant who is a Yemeni national who has lived in China since he was one year old ahs lost his appeal against the refusal
The Migration Advisory Committee has published its report on the minimum income requirement for families of British or settled migrants and has recommended that the
May is over and the immigration white paper has finally been published, so Sonia spends a bit of time at the beginning of this month’s
The Court of Appeal has found that an error by the Upper Tribunal in failing to place a relevant document before the decision making judge
The Court of Appeal has once again asked the Home Office to please do something about the state of Appendix EU. The context this time
The latest quarterly immigration and asylum statistics have been published, covering the period January to March 2025. The asylum backlog is down, but that is
The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Court of Appeal, which had agreed with the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s decision to dismiss an
An unhappy Court of Appeal has warned against the “the type of informal case expansion that was deprecated by this Court in R (Talpada) v Secretary
The Court of Appeal has issued a welcome corrective to the tribunals, telling them not to impose an “unrealistic evidential burden” on asylum applicants who claim that they are subject to monitoring by their home government. The case is MH (Bangladesh) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025]...
The latest report from Dr Jo Wilding, “No Access to Justice 2” looks at the continuing immigration and asylum legal aid crisis. This is an update to her 2022 report and includes a region by region analysis of demand and provision. In the 2022 report, London was the only region...
An appellant who is a Yemeni national who has lived in China since he was one year old ahs lost his appeal against the refusal of humanitarian protection on the grounds that he can return to China, despite the absence of evidence that China would grant him entry. The court...
The Migration Advisory Committee has published its report on the minimum income requirement for families of British or settled migrants and has recommended that the government does not increase the minimum income threshold to the skilled worker threshold of £38,700 from the current level of £29,000. The call for evidence...
May is over and the immigration white paper has finally been published, so Sonia spends a bit of time at the beginning of this month’s podcast reliving the horrors of that. Andrew covers a very wide range of topics in this episode, from deprivation of citizenship to “self sponsorship” to...
The Court of Appeal has found that an error by the Upper Tribunal in failing to place a relevant document before the decision making judge brought the case within the very limited exceptions for a Cart judicial review to proceed. The substantive challenge, however, was dismissed. The case is R...
The Court of Appeal has once again asked the Home Office to please do something about the state of Appendix EU. The context this time was trying to understand what the rules say about the definition of a durable partner. The case is Mustaj v Secretary of State for the...
The latest quarterly immigration and asylum statistics have been published, covering the period January to March 2025. The asylum backlog is down, but that is fairly meaningless given how atrocious decision making is at the moment, those cases are now the First-tier Tribunal’s problem. Syrians seeking asylum in the UK...
The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Court of Appeal, which had agreed with the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s decision to dismiss an appeal against deprivation of British citizenship and an application for entry clearance by a woman in Syria. The case is U3 v Secretary of State...
An unhappy Court of Appeal has warned against the “the type of informal case expansion that was deprecated by this Court in R (Talpada) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 841” and reminded litigants of the need to make formal applications when wanting to amend...
