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A claimant has been refused permission for judicial review to challenge the refusal of his naturalisation application on good character grounds. The decision followed an oral permission hearing and the case is R (BSD) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 3333 (Admin). BSD arrived in the...
BY Sonia Lenegan
In this briefing we will take a look at what is really going on with the main features of the contemporary asylum system: arrivals, the backlog, detention, removal and resettlement. The information is drawn mainly from the quarterly immigration statistics and transparency data for the year ended September 2025, the...
BY Colin Yeo
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has disclosed some further details on the new immigration and asylum appeal body. The plans are contained in a letter to the chair of the Justice Committee. Some further hints at the process behind the scenes separately emerged in live questions to Sarah Sackman, Minister...
BY Colin Yeo
A charity has been refused permission to challenge “Operation Tornado” on the grounds that it has an indirectly discriminatory effect on people with the protected characteristic of disability, race (colour) and sex. “Operation Tornado” is what the government has named the increase in immigration raids since the Labour government was...
BY Sonia Lenegan
The Upper Tribunal has heard a challenge by a cohort of Syrian nationals regarding the certification of their asylum claims on the basis that they could be returned to a safe third country, in this case Bulgaria. It is believed that this case is the first of its kind since...