Detention
Our posts about immigration bail
- Secondary legislation regulating immigration detention including detention reviews and reporting duties on detention centre GPs
- Main Home Office detention policy
- Starting point for securing the release of a vulnerable detainee
- Regularly updated information about timescale for Emergency Travel Documents
- Regulations about the use of Rule 40 and 42 to segregate detainees
Key posts on detention
Our posts on the Hardial Singh principles
- High Court bail for vulnerable detainee
- What are the Hardial Singh principles?
- Mixed messages on delays during detention from the High Court
- Home Office can detain migrants for up to five weeks after law requires that they be released
- Supreme Court finds detention of asylum seekers unlawful
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£17,500 awarded for 40 days of unlawful detention during the pandemic
In R (Abulbakr) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 1183 (Admin), the High Court has ordered the Home Office to pay a detainee £17,500 for 40 days of unlawful detention caused by unreasonable delay in providing a release address. ...
12th July 2022Home Office has no power to vary High Court bail conditions
In R (BVN) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 1159 (Admin) the High Court has confirmed that the Secretary of State has no power to interfere with the conditions attached to a grant of High Court bail. It is an unusual issue and ...
23rd May 2022Damning report finds “systemic failures” of detention centres to identify harm
A damning report on healthcare and safeguarding in detention has concluded that the existing protocols for vulnerable detainees are “totally and utterly flawed”. The Medical Justice report Harmed not Heard focuses on the inadequacy of the Ru ...
4th May 2022Telephone reporting for people on immigration bail
From April 2022 the Home Office has moved to using telephone reporting as a mainstream reporting alternative. This follows on from changes implemented on an emergency basis during the pandemic lockdown and sustained lobbying by migrants rights groups. ...
3rd May 2022Afghan refugee detained for 98 days wins High Court false imprisonment appeal
Ali v The Home Office [2022] EWHC 866 (QB) is a successful appeal against the Central London County Court’s decision to dismiss the false imprisonment claim of a recognised Afghan refugee, detained for 98 days under the Detained Fast Track proc ...
21st April 2022Mandatory GPS tagging for people on immigration bail
Last August, the provisions in Schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 2016 providing for foreign national offenders liable to deportation to be subject to mandatory tagging as a condition of immigration bail were commenced. This provision was designed to ...
21st February 2022