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When deportation is not unduly harsh
Video Update: When deportation is not unduly harsh In this Immigration Law update video I consider the Court of Appeal decision in TD (Albania) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 619 (29 April 2021), which is the latest decision grappling with the unduly harsh test in more...
Deadlines for EU Settlement Scheme Applications and Late Applications
Video Update: Deadlines for EU Settlement Scheme Applications and Late Applications In this video I look at the deadlines for applications under Appendix EU and the provisions for late applications. I summarise the Home Office guidance on how they will deal with late applications. Resources referred more...
Rule 276B, Disregarded Overstaying & Lawful Residence
New Video: Rule 276B, Disregarded Overstaying & Lawful Residence In this immigration law update video I summarise the reported case of Muneeb Asif (Paragraph 276B - disregard - previous overstaying) [2021] UKUT 96 (IAC) the head note of which states, ‘On the proper construction of paragraph 276B more...
Fast track immigration route opens for prestigious award winners - changes to the global talent visa
Video Update - Fast track immigration route opens for prestigious award winners - changes to the global talent visa In this short update video I look at the changes to the Global Talent visa which allow applicants who have received a prestigious prize to bypass the endorsement requirement. This more...
New Visa Scheme for Young Indian Professionals
Video Update - New Visa Scheme for Young Indian Professionals In this short update video I look at the new UK - India ‘Migration and Mobility Partnership’ signed on 4th May 2021 which includes a Young Professionals scheme to allow young Indian and British professionals to work and live in each other more...
‘Obstacles and Aspirations’ A Conversation with Bushra Ali on her journey in the legal profession
New Video ‘Obstacles and Aspirations’ A Conversation with Bushra Ali on her journey in the legal profession In this wide ranging conversation I chat to Bushra Ali about her career journey from growing up in North Wales to becoming President of the Leicestershire Law Society and founding the Bushra more...
29 Apr 2021 09:33
Immigration removal and an Article 2 inquestR (Lawal) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2021), Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), Unreported, JR/626/2020 (V) — read judgment The death of an immigration detainee, as with all prisoners, is rightly subject to legal scrutiny. This is because detainees are completely more...
29 Apr 2021 09:31
The missing Rule 35 mechanism for immigration detention in prisonThe Court of Appeal in MR (Pakistan) and Another v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 541 recently dealt with appeals regarding the absence of a process to assess the vulnerability of a person detained under immigration powers at Her Majesty’s Prisons (“HMPs”). This absence more...
27 Apr 2021 11:18
The Weekly Round-up: Home Office deaths and Post Office “thefts”In the News: The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) has found that Priti Patel breached her procedural obligations under Article 2 of the ECHR in respect of deaths in immigration detention. The application for judicial review arose following the death of Oscar Lucky Okwurime on 12 more...
27 Apr 2021 11:17
Home Office Windrush decision was irrational, holds High CourtR (On the Application of Hubert Howard (deceased, substituted by Maresha Howard Rose pursuant to CPR 19.2(4) and PD 19A)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 1023 (Admin) — read judgment Hubert Howard was born in 1956 and came to the United Kingdom in 1960, aged almost 4 from more...
Entry Clearance Appeals Must be Started Online: Presidential Practice Statement No1 of 2021
New Video - Entry Clearance Appeals Must be Started Online: Presidential Practice Statement No1 of 2021 In this latest immigration law update video I look at the FTT IAC Presidential Practice Statement No1 of 2021 which takes effect from 26th April 2021. Amongst other things this Practice Statement more...
19 Apr 2021 15:26
Mandatory vaccinations for care home workers – a slippery slope?Or, as Andrew Neil put it on the Spectator TV News Channel this week, “A Dripping Roast For Lawyers”. To be fair, Neil was referring to the patchwork of mandatory vaccines across the United States. But with the publication yesterday of the Government’s consultation paper on vaccine requirements for more...
19 Apr 2021 15:14
The Weekly Round-Up: Amnesty unimpressed and government care home guidance “grossly discriminatory”In the news: On Wednesday, Amnesty International released its 2020/21 report on the state of the world’s human rights. Amnesty’s UK director, Kate Allen, also called for an inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic and said “the government is now shamefully trying to strip away our more...
6 Apr 2021 10:26
The Weekly Round-Up: New Police Powers and Domestic Abuse in the Family CourtsOn Friday, former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett raised his issues with the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, an enormous piece of legislation that reforms much existing legislation and common law offences. Lord Blunkett pointed to the difficulties the police could face in interpreting the more...
6 Apr 2021 10:01
The Chinese State attacks the Bar: A Call to Arms – Lord Sandhurst QCOn 26 March, the Government of the People’s Republic of China announced sanctions against a number of British individuals and entities. Most publicity has been attracted by the inclusion of well-known politicians on the list. But the most sinister inclusion may be “Essex Court Chambers”. Whereas the more...
24 Mar 2021 11:14
Abortion in Northern Ireland: at the interface between politics and lawAbortion reform in Northern Ireland has had a fraught history, to say the least. Matters appeared to finally come to a head when in 2019, the UK Parliament enacted the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc.) Act 2019 (2019 Act), which created a duty on the Secretary of State to implement more...
22 Mar 2021 11:18
Re B: soldiers and the criminal process in Northern IrelandRe B’s application [2020] NIQB 76 was a challenge to a decision to prosecute a soldier for offences going back to 1972. Part of the small but politically divisive cohort of prosecutions arising out of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Re B provides a classic example of how courts approach the issue more...
Immigration Law Webinar - Quotes from Classic Immigration Cases: Old & New
Immigration Law Webinar - Quotes from Classic Immigration Cases: Old & New ‘Deportation, Article 8, Long Residence, Credibility, Asylum, EEA Law and much more’ In this webinar I go through some of my recent immigration law images which I have posted online. The webinar covers recent and older more...
16 Mar 2021 12:26
The Weekly Round-Up: Women’s Rights – a Long Way to GoIn the news: Women’s rights and gender equality issues have been at the forefront of the news this week. The appalling murder of Sarah Everard, abducted when walking home in London, has elicited a huge social media response. In particular, it has highlighted the problematic phenomenon of more...
15 Mar 2021 12:38
‘Revenge porn’ is a misnomerWhy we should replace ‘revenge porn’ with ‘image based sexual abuse’ and reform the mens rea of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 The digital world is becoming an increasingly dominant part of daily life. This has been thrown into sharp relief by the current public health crisis, which has more...
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