- No appeal against Upper Tribunal refusal to set aside its own decision
- Home Office entitled to refuse Windrush citizenship applications on good character grounds
- Supreme Court pronounces on “unduly harsh” deportation test, again
- Syrian refugee loses High Court bid to get immigration appointment fee refunded
- Human trafficking case correctly handled with “anxious scrutiny”
Case law
New case law articles
Supreme Court
- Supreme Court pronounces on “unduly harsh” deportation test, again
- When is exploitation a “commercial activity”? Supreme Court decides Basfar v Wong
- Supreme Court allows foreign criminal deportation case
- Supreme Court upholds government’s right to set child citizenship fees as it chooses
- Deportation law up for MORE revision: Supreme Court to hear appeal in HA (Iraq) case
Court of Appeal
- No appeal against Upper Tribunal refusal to set aside its own decision
- Home Office entitled to refuse Windrush citizenship applications on good character grounds
- Human trafficking case correctly handled with “anxious scrutiny”
- Section 3C leave is not there to get people to ten years’ lawful residence
- Do political beliefs need to be genuinely held to get asylum?
Upper Tribunal
- New Chamber President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal announced
- Upper Tribunal reopens another Cart case
- Challenge to “deport first, appeal later” process rejected
- Judge takes “points based system” a bit too literally
- Whether income is “lawfully derived” to be assessed case by case, Upper Tribunal holds
High Court
- Syrian refugee loses High Court bid to get immigration appointment fee refunded
- £17,500 awarded for 40 days of unlawful detention during the pandemic
- No costs awarded for judicial review of asylum dispersal policy
European Court of Human Rights
- Greek pushback operation violated right to life of 11 people drowned
- European Court of Human Rights considers fairness of remote hearings
- Blanket rule delaying family reunion for temporary refugees violates human rights
Court of Justice of the European Union
- UK wrongly insisted on Comprehensive Sickness Insurance for years, EU court finds
- EU court considers Comprehensive Sickness Insurance
- Denying benefits to EU pre-settled status holders justified if no fundamental rights breached
- Non-Europeans can be detained for longer, EU Court of Justice decides
- Court of Justice decision on cessation of protection for Somali refugees
Useful links
- New decisions of the UK Supreme Court
- The latest decisions reported on Bailii for the Court of Appeal (Civil)
- The latest decisions reported on Bailii for the Administrative Court
- Database of Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) judgments
- Database of Court of Justice of the European Union judgments
- Database of European Court of Human Rights judgments
No appeal against Upper Tribunal refusal to set aside its own decision
There is no right of appeal against a refusal by the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) to set aside a decision disposing of proceedings. So held the Court of Appeal in DJ (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWC ...
5th August 2022Home Office entitled to refuse Windrush citizenship applications on good character grounds
Hubert Howard arrived in the United Kingdom in 1960, aged four. He was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies back then and was fully entitled to enter the country of his nationality. The law changed around him over the years but he carried on w ...
2nd August 2022Supreme Court pronounces on “unduly harsh” deportation test, again
In what I calculate to be the fifth Supreme Court case addressing the meaning of the words used in Theresa May’s 2014 reforms of deportation law, the justices have rejected three linked Home Office appeals seeking to reinstate deportation orders ...
21st July 2022Syrian refugee loses High Court bid to get immigration appointment fee refunded
A Syrian refugee who paid £440 to secure settlement appointments despite being heavily in debt has lost a High Court bid to get his money back. The case is R (MS) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 1413 (Admin). Home Office poli ...
19th July 2022Human trafficking case correctly handled with “anxious scrutiny”
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an Albanian woman’s judicial review challenge to a finding that she was not a human trafficking victim, holding that those deciding her case had handled it with the correct level of “anxious scrutiny” ...
19th July 2022Greek pushback operation violated right to life of 11 people drowned
The European Court of Human Rights has concluded that a maritime pushback operation conducted by Greek coastguards in 2014 violated the right to life of the 11 people who drowned in the process. The case is Safi and Others v Greece (application no. 54 ...
13th July 2022