- Supreme Court pronounces on “unduly harsh” deportation test, again
- Deportation law up for MORE revision: Supreme Court to hear appeal in HA (Iraq) case
- The effect of deportation on children: Imran case reversed
- Reconciliation with victim a factor against deportation
- Deportation of father not “unduly harsh” on child in loving home
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How to gather evidence in support of a deportation appeal
10th September 2018
What is the law governing the deportation of EU nationals?
23rd August 2017
What does “unduly harsh” mean in deportation cases?
17th July 2019
Out of country appeals
- Challenge to “deport first, appeal later” process rejected
- “Sorry episode”: Chief Justice reprimands Home Office for disclosure failures
- First-tier Tribunal discourages oral evidence from abroad
- Upper Tribunal revisits issue of permission for video evidence from abroad
- Does every Zoom witness abroad need foreign state permission to dial in?
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No Windrush compensation for man whose ILR lapsed while imprisoned abroad
A claimant wrongly given a deportation order couldn’t benefit from the Windrush Compensation Scheme because his indefinite leave to remain had already lapsed, the High Court has held in R (on the application of Thompson) v Secretary of State for the ...
11th August 2023Court of Appeal provides further guidance on unduly harsh deportation test
The unduly harsh test in deportation cases has been subject to litigation for years and we have written about it in several articles, most recently in relation to the Supreme Court case of HA (Iraq). The Court of Appeal has now published its jud ...
30th May 2023Latest figures show only 8% of deportation appeals allowed on human rights ground only
Figures the Ministry of Justice was instructed to publish by the Office for Statistics Regulation show that just 8% of all deportation appeals lodged in 2020/21 were allowed on human rights grounds only. The one-off statistical release follows from th ...
21st November 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 2022Challenge to “deport first, appeal later” process rejected
The Upper Tribunal has rejected a challenge to the Article 8 compliance of the “deport first, appeal later” system despite previously having ordered the Home Office to bring the claimant back to the UK to ensure he had an effective appeal. ...
28th June 2022Supreme Court allows foreign criminal deportation case
The Supreme Court has allowed the appeal against the deportation of a Jamaican man who arrived in the UK aged ten. The case is SC (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 15. The judgment covers the application of the co ...
16th June 2022