Category Archives: Bank Accounts

Procedural fairness fails skilled migrant in Court of Appeal

R (Topadar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1525 The uncertain outcome in the Supreme Court in R (Pathan) v SSHD [2020] UKSC 41, discussed here, was swiftly put to the test in the case … Continue reading →

Posted in Appendix Skilled Worker, Article 8, Bank Accounts, Court of Appeal, Employment, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, PBS, Procedural Fairness, Tier 2, UKSC | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Court of Appeal takes a strict stance on adducing new evidence to the Upper Tribunal

Kabir v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 1162 (09 July 2019) On the topic of fresh evidence (in the context of deception, false documents, bank statements) the Court of Appeal has held that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bangladesh, Bank Accounts, Banks, Court of Appeal, Deception, Entrepreneurs, False Statements and Misrepresentations, Immigration Rules, PBS, Tier 1 | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Current Accounts in a ‘Hostile Environment’: Bad Banks to Police Immigration Law from Next Year

Should the weeding out of thousands of overstayers, foreign national offenders facing deportation and failed asylum-seekers be delegated to bad banks so that 70m bank accounts can be screened in order to ascertain the account holders’ immigration status? No definitely … Continue reading →

Posted in Bank Accounts, Banks, Conduct Costs, Corporate Governance, David Bolt, Economy, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Act 2016, SFO, Syria | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

New Punishments: Immigration Bill 2015

The onslaught continues. The Immigration Act 2014 promised to root out the ills of the system but now fresh legislation has been proposed to cure things even further and the home office recently announced a welter of new (improved) anti-immigrant … Continue reading →

Posted in Access to Justice, Appeals, Article 8, Bank Accounts, ECHR, Economy, Employment, Enforcement, European Union, Human Rights Act, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Bill 2015, Judicial Review, Politics, Tribunals | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Immigration Act 2014: Bank Accounts

Although the Immigration Bill 2015-16 has arrived, the details of the Immigration Act 2014 are still being digested. Apart from rogue employers and landlords, provisions enacted under the 2014 Act also created a system that deals with immigration offenders in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bank Accounts, Court of Appeal, Economy, Enforcement, FSMA, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Bill 2015, Immigration Rules, Judges, Lady Hale | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments