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The High Court found that a University’s failure to rescind its withdrawal of sponsorship, or at least inquire about the possibility of doing so with the Home Office, was either a fettering of its discretion or irrational conduct given the circumstances of the case. The judgment is a welcome reminder...
BY Ben Maitland
The Upper Tribunal has said that when the Court of Session is transferring judicial reviews to the tribunal, a decision should be made by the court on permission before the matter is transferred. The case is R (EB) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Scotland; Transfer of claims)...
BY Sonia Lenegan
Panicking about a Christmas present for the human rights lawyer in your life? Landmark Chambers have you covered with the excellent “The Law and Practice of Human Rights”. This is the first (presumably of many) edition and is a huge achievement that was turned around in an impressively quick period...
BY Sonia Lenegan
The Home Secretary has lost her appeal to the Court of Appeal in a case where she sought to restrict the ability of people to, effectively, appeal the deemed withdrawal of their asylum claim and cessation of asylum support by the Home Office to the Asylum Support Tribunal. The case...
BY Sonia Lenegan
This is one of those real train wrecks from the Home Office, where you may want to make yourself a large cup of coffee and read through the whole judgment. It features a person being wrongly told by the Home Office to make a No Time Limit application, followed by...