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Author: Sonia Lenegan

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Sonia Lenegan

Sonia Lenegan is an experienced immigration, asylum and public law solicitor. She has been practising for over ten years and was previously legal director at the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association and legal and policy director at Rainbow Migration. Sonia is the Editor of Free Movement.

Successful challenge by Masters student to asylum accommodation move

A claimant has successfully challenged a move from his asylum accommodation after a failure on the part of the Home Office to engage with the evidence as to why the […]

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26th July 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan

Asylum processing to resume as new regulations allow grants of leave to be made

The Illegal Migration Act 2023 (Amendment) Regulations 2024 have ended the prohibition on grants of leave for people who have claimed asylum. The effect of the regulations is to consolidate […]

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25th July 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan

High Court upholds refusal to register child as a British Citizen

The High Court has found that a decision to refuse to register a child as a British Citizen was lawful, despite the “barely stated” reasons given. The case is R […]

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22nd July 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan

Immigration roundup podcast: June 2024

Here is your June round up of Free Movement. In this episode Colin and Sonia discuss why the Illegal Migration Act should be repealed, an appalling decision on trafficking delays, […]

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18th July 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan

Court of Appeal finds breach of Withdrawal Agreement in “mystery” stamp case

It’s the return of the “mystery” stamp! Although the Court of Appeal has come to a different conclusion than the Upper Tribunal did, holding that while a passport stamp did […]

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11th July 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan

Home Office policy on delaying consideration of EUSS applications held to be unlawful

The “Pending Prosecutions” section of the EU Settlement Scheme: suitability requirements version 8.0 policy, which provided for applications to be paused where there was a pending prosecution, has been held […]

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10th July 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan

Harmondsworth detention centre inspection report: “worst conditions” ever seen

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a report on an unannounced inspection of Harmondsworth immigration removal centre, a facility run by Mitie Care and Custody, concluding that “there is […]

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9th July 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan

Asylum Support Tribunal says it can consider lawfulness of Home Office withdrawal of asylum claims

The Asylum Support Tribunal has found that there is a right of appeal against a decision to stop a person’s asylum support where their asylum claim has been deemed withdrawn […]

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2nd July 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan

First-tier Tribunal judge carried out “wholly inappropriate” cross-examination of appellant

The Court of Appeal has, for the third time this year, had to intervene where the Upper Tribunal has failed to do so, in a case involving poor conduct on […]

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1st July 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan

Failure to implement Windrush recommendations held to be unlawful by High Court

The High Court has held that the decision made by Suella Braverman not to implement recommendations made in Wendy Williams’ review into the Windrush scandal was unlawful. The recommendations specifically […]

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26th June 2024
BY Sonia Lenegan
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