This article provides an overview of some of the safeguards available for those who are held in immigration detention, focussing particularly on those who have
Here, we look at the practicalities involved in getting a good medico-legal report. We have previously explained what a medico-legal report is and that article
The Home Office has lost a judicial review over its controversial change to the definition of torture in a claim brought by unlawfully detained torture
This article provides an overview of some of the safeguards available for those who are held in immigration detention, focussing particularly on those who have been victims of torture. These safeguards are all the more important following the expansion of detention powers under section 12 of the Illegal Migration Act....
Here, we look at the practicalities involved in getting a good medico-legal report. We have previously explained what a medico-legal report is and that article should be read alongside this one. These reports can be a game changer in cases involving vulnerable clients, but in the current climate it is...
The Home Office has lost a judicial review over its controversial change to the definition of torture in a claim brought by unlawfully detained torture victims. The judgment is in the case of Medical Justice & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWHC 2461 (Admin). In...
