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10 Mar 2021 16:47
Please donate to Advocate on PC renewal“I donate to Advocate because barristers who do pro bono work through Advocate provide a vital public service to those who would not otherwise be able to enforce their legal rights.” Derek Sweeting QC, Chair of the Bar Council Please support access to justice through Advocate, the Bar’s pro bono more...
Upper Tribunal (IAC) Reported Decisions: December 2020
New Video - Upper Tribunal (IAC) Reported Decisions: December 2020 In this series I summarise the reported decisions of the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber for 2020 tackling them a month at a time. In this video I look at the reported decisions for December 2020 covering permission to more...
8 Mar 2021 12:58
The Weekly Round-Up: Ministerial Maternity Leave, a New Offence and Guidance on Visiting Gran (pt. 1)On Monday the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021 came into force, allowing the Attorney General, Suella Braverman QC, to be the first minister to take maternity leave. The Act grants cabinet ministers six months’ maternity leave whilst retaining their government post, whereas in more...
8 Mar 2021 11:58
The Weekly Round-Up: Family Benefits and Domestic Abuse (pt. 2)In the news: The High Court will hear a case brought by a mother and her 11-month-old baby, who are arguing that they should not be excluded from the UK government’s ‘Healthy Start’ scheme. The scheme provides vouchers for healthy food, nutritional advice, and vitamins to low-income families, but more...
8 Mar 2021 11:44
Doctors acted unlawfully in deciding on eligibility for drug – Court of AppealBasma (suing by her mother and litigation friend Sara Basma) v Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anr [2021] EWCA Civ 278 Sophie Basma (“Sophie”) is 10. She suffers from Type 3 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (“SMA”). SMA is a rare, genetic, neuromuscular disease which progressively more...
2 Mar 2021 16:12
Supreme Court: Shamima Begum may be barred from UKSpecial Immigration Appeals Commission and Secretary of State for the Home Department v R (Begum) [2021] UKSC 7 Since 2019 when Shamima Begum was found in a camp in north Syria, her hopes of returning to the UK have ebbed and flowed (see here and here). Stripped of her British citizenship, she more...
2 Mar 2021 15:53
The Weekly Round-Up: Unconventional Harm Reduction and Shamima Begum’s Final AppealIn the news: The UK has seen an increasingly falling rate in arrests and prosecutions for cannabis possession over recent years, as police forces no longer see the point in enforcement. The Liberal Democrats have campaigned for its legalisation since 2016, and the first medically-prescribed cannabis more...
23 Feb 2021 16:15
Victims of human trafficking: can they be criminals as well?Human trafficking is internationally recognised as threatening human rights and the fundamental values of democratic societies. States have taken action to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking and to provide support to victims of what is the third largest illicit money-making venture in the more...
22 Feb 2021 11:10
The Weekly Round-up: Free Speech: Chilling Effects or Phantom Threats?A number of legal developments put free speech under the spotlight this week. First, media commentators disputed the significance of the Duchess of Sussex’s successful privacy claim against Associated Newspaper Limited, covered in last week’s round-up. A leader in The Times issued the grave warning more...
Immigration Law Conversations: Recent Developments in Deportation Case Law
New Video - Immigration Law Conversations: Recent Developments in Deportation Case Law In this Immigration Law Conversation Stephen Vokes and Emma Rutherford discuss some recent important deportation cases and their implications. Below are the citations and links for the cases discussed in the video more...
17 Feb 2021 10:30
The Weekly Round-up: Phase 2 of the Grenfell InquiryIn the News: Having been temporarily suspended in early January as a result of an increase in COVID-19 cases, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry hearings resumed on 8 February 2021. The fire killed 72 people. The hearings are being conducted remotely using a Zoom-based video platform, which the Inquiry more...
Immigration Law Conversations: myHMCTS, Video Appeals, Appeal Skeleton Arguments and Permission to Appeal
New Video - Immigration Law Conversations: myHMCTS, Video Appeals, Appeal Skeleton Arguments and Permission to Appeal In this wide ranging Immigration Law Conversation I chat to Christopher Cole, of Parker Rhodes Hickmotts Solicitors, about myHMCTS, video appeals Appeal Skeleton Arguments and more...
11 Feb 2021 09:57
Vaccination and public/private coercionIn an earlier post I discussed the problem of “vaccine hesitancy” and written evidence to Parliament to Parliament outlining ways in which a vaccination against Covid-19 without consent could be put on a par with capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and with Section 3 of the Mental Health more...
2 Feb 2021 15:03
Atmospheric pollution relevant to asylum claim, holds French courtOn 18 December of last year, a judgment was handed down by the cour administrative d’appel à Bordeaux (the appeals court of the administrative court of Bordeaux) which, until quite recently, went under the international radar. In a landmark judgment, the Court ruled that the respondent, an asylum more...
1 Feb 2021 12:21
What is a continuing nuisance?Harrison Jalla and others v. (1) Shell International Trading and Shipping Company (2) Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited [2021[ EWCA Civ 63 – read judgment A traditional phrase in the common law, such as “continuing nuisance”, may mean a number of things in different contexts, more...
Upper Tribunal (IAC) Reported Decisions: November 2020
New Video - Upper Tribunal (IAC) Reported Decisions: November 2020 In this series I summarise the reported decisions of the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber for 2020 tackling them a month at a time. In this video I look at the reported decisions for November 2020 covering Country more...
Deportation, Very Significant Obstacles and Exile
New Video: Deportation, Very Significant Obstacles and Exile In this Immigration Law Update video I consider the Court of Appeal decision in Lowe v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 62 (25 January 2021) in which the Court of Appeal restored the decision of the FTT more...
26 Jan 2021 10:54
The Weekly Round-Up: Human Rights vs Unfettered Trade: a Party divided?In the news: Last week’s round-up detailed China’s ongoing oppression of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province. This week, the government narrowly defeated a backbench rebellion in the form of an all-party amendment, strongly endorsed in the Lords, which would have given victims of genocide the more...
26 Jan 2021 10:52
Enforced wearing of masks declared unconstitutionalFollowing my post on the Weimar District Court judgment, here is news from Belgium. This summary of the ruling is from the journal LeVif. The police tribunal in Brussels issued a judgment on 12 January acquitting a man summoned for non-wearing of a mask, according to his lawyer, Hélène Alexandris. more...
25 Jan 2021 12:32
German District Court declares Corona Ordinance UnconstitutionalIn a landmark judgement on January 11, a district court judge in Weimar declared the prohibition on social contact unlawful as contrary to the German Basic Law (Gründgesetz). Its order at the time had been unconstitutional because the Infection Protection Act was not a sufficient legal basis for more...
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