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Supreme Court finds no human right to legal status if it’s your own fault you can’t be removed
Irish High Court finds decision to list the UK as a safe country for asylum seekers is unlawful
Government Legal Department told by High Court to keep “rather basic point” in mind when advising on redactions
Yet another Afghan judge successfully challenges exclusion from resettlement scheme
Rewarding failure: Home Secretary permitted to withdraw decision under appeal following failure to admit excluded evidence

Supreme Court

Supreme Court finds no human right to legal status if it’s your own fault you can’t be removed

Reflections on the Supreme Court’s Rwanda judgment

Supreme Court finds Rwanda is not a safe country to which refugees can be removed

Brexit and the Rwanda agreement: what was argued in the Supreme Court?

The Rwanda litigation: who is arguing what in the Supreme Court?

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Court of Appeal

Court of Appeal resolves ambiguity about assumed dependency in EU Settlement Scheme

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

Court of Appeal reduces penalty applied to owner of lorry carrying clandestine entrants

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

Court of Appeal rejects claim that hearing was unfair because tribunal judge asked too many questions

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Upper Tribunal

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

Official evidence of English language test cheating will raise a case to answer, confirms Upper Tribunal

Upper Tribunal considers citizenship deprivation on grounds of deception and good character test

Upper Tribunal gives guidance on ‘new matter’ in an appeal

Upper Tribunal finds guidance for those unable to travel from Gaza to enrol biometrics is unlawful

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High Court

Successful challenge by Masters student to asylum accommodation move

High Court finds passport office prevented from refusing passport to person who may not actually be British

High Court upholds refusal to register child as a British Citizen

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European Court of Human Rights

Asylum in the European Courts: a case roundup

Human rights damages can be awarded for judicial findings

Greek pushback operation violated right to life of 11 people drowned

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Court of Justice of the European Union

CJEU: Women who are victims of gender-based violence can qualify for refugee status

Court of Justice confirms British citizens lost their EU citizenship because of Brexit

Asylum in the European Courts: a case roundup

UK wrongly insisted on Comprehensive Sickness Insurance for years, EU court finds

EU court considers Comprehensive Sickness Insurance

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Asylum, Cases

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

Cases, Nationality

High Court finds passport office prevented from refusing passport to person who may not actually be British

In a really interesting case, the High Court has held that issue estoppel prevents His Majesty’s Passport Office from refusing to issue a passport to an applicant, because of a

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24th July 2024

BY Alex Piletska

Cases, Children, Nationality

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

Cases, EU Free Movement

Court of Appeal resolves ambiguity about assumed dependency in EU Settlement Scheme

The court has held that a parent granted a family permit under the EU Settlement Scheme based on assumed dependency must show actual dependency to get leave to remain when

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17th July 2024

BY Alex Piletska

Cases, EU Free Movement

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

Cases, EU Free Movement

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

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