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- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court
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- UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
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- UK politics live: Pat McFadden tells Labour activists they should not defend benefits system ‘status quo’ because it ‘writes off’ claimants
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Category Archives: Detention
Home Office ordered to pay over £203,995.24 in damages to Nigerian man
Adegboyega v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 2365 (KB) (15 September 2024) In Mr Adegboyega’s case, the SSHD was ordered to pay over £203,995.24 in damages. A Nigerian national, Mr Adegboyega was unlawfully detained at Brook … Continue reading
Posted in Article 3, Article 8, Damages, Detention, ECHR, European Union, False Imprisonment, Misfeasance, Nigeria, Racism
Tagged Article 8, Brook House IRC, Case Law, Damages, ECHR, Nigeria
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Proper notice is necessary in deprivation of citizenship cases
R (D4) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWCA Civ 33 (26 January 2022) In these proceedings, upholding the decision of Chamberlain J, the Court of Appeal held that section 40(5) of the British Nationality Act 1981 provided … Continue reading
Failure to provide legal aid advice to immigration detainees in prison is unlawful
R (SM) v Bail for Immigration Detainees [2021] EWHC 418 (Admin) (25 February 2021) In these proceedings, Swift J held that the failure to give immigration detainees held in prison access to publicly funded legal advice to an extent equivalent … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Article 14, Article 2, Article 3, Article 5, Article 8, Asylum, Bail, Detention, IRCs, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Case Law, DDAS, ECHR, Judicial Review, LASPO, Legal Aid, Prison, UK Supreme Court
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Home Office is failing potential victims of human trafficking
DA & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWHC 3080 (Admin) (13 November 2020) In judicial review proceedings brought by an Eritrean and two Sudanese nationals who claimed to be victims of human trafficking, Fordham J held that … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Arrivals, Article 3, Asylum, Brexit, Detention, Eritrea, Human Trafficking, Judicial Review, Libya, Modern Slavery, Removals, Sudan
Tagged Asylum, Brexit, Case Law, Human Trafficking, Judicial Review, Libya, Modern Slavery, Removals
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NAO report: Home Office is not delivering value for money
The report on Immigration Enforcement by the National Audit Office (NAO) makes poor reading for the Home Office because it “does not yet have a full understanding of how its activities affect the progress those people take through each part … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Appeals, Appendix FM, Article 8, Asylum, Culture, Deportation, Detention, Families, Fees, Hostile Environment, Immigration Rules, NAO, Windrush
Tagged Article 8, ECHR, Immigration Rules, NAO, Spouses, Tribunals
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Court of Appeal confirms £1 flat rate of pay in IRCs is lawful
Badmus & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 657 (20 May 2020) Sir Terence Etherton MR and Hickinbottom and Simler LJJ have determined in these proceedings that the … Continue reading
Posted in Article 14, Article 4, Article 8, Court of Appeal, Deportation, Detention, ECHR, Employment, IRCs, Judicial Review, Windrush
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Court of Appeal, Detention, ECHR, Judicial Review, Removals
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False imprisonment: Supreme Court overrules Draga
DN (Rwanda), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 7 (26 February 2020) In this important judgment, the Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal’s decision in Draga [2012] EWCA Civ 842 … Continue reading
Supreme Court refuses to take “retrograde step” on the tort of false imprisonment
R (Jalloh) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 4 (12 February 2020) The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the government’s appeal in Jalloh (formerly Jollah) concerning the law on damages for the tort of false imprisonment. The … Continue reading
Systematic failure: Immigration bail hearings 2019, the view from Taylor House
The UK is the only country in Europe without a time limit on detention for immigration purposes, despite pressure from numerous campaigns. The burden is therefore on the applicant to show why he should be allowed out on bail while … Continue reading
Recidivist offender from Italy unsuccessful in Supreme Court
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Franco Vomero (Italy) [2019] UKSC 35 (24 July 2019) In this longstanding dispute about free movement law and Directive 2004/38/EC (the Citizens’ Directive) dating back to 2007, the Supreme Court allowed the government’s appeal in … Continue reading
Does EIG satisfy Dublin III on detaining asylum seekers?
In Hemmati & Ors [2018] EWCA Civ 2122, the Court of Appeal held by a majority that the detention of five asylum seekers pending removal to other Member States had been unlawful because neither the Enforcement Instructions and Guidance Chapter 55 … Continue reading
Posted in Article 5, Asylum, CFR, CJEU, Court of Appeal, Detention, ECHR, European Union, Judicial Review, Lady Hale, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Brexit, Court of Appeal, Detention, ECHR, Judicial Review, Persecution, UK Supreme Court
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Case Preview: B (Algeria) v SSHD
The respondent “B” entered the UK illegally in 1993. He is probably from Algeria. But since he refuses to identify himself his real nationality is unknown. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard the SSHD’s appeal on the issue whether, … Continue reading
Posted in Article 3, Article 5, Bail, CFR, Court of Appeal, Deportation, Detention, Dyson JSC/MR, ECHR, Proportionality, Public Interest, SIAC, Terrorism, UKSC
Tagged Algeria, Court of Appeal, Detention, ECHR, Judicial Review, Terrorism, UK Supreme Court
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Deceptive Criminal from Sierra Leone Triumphs on Citizens’ Directive in Court of Appeal
R (Decker) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2017] EWCA Civ 1752 (03 November 2017) These judicial review proceedings relate to the refusal of a residence card and the right approach to the validity of deportation … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Citizens Directive, Deception, Deportation, Detention, Entry Clearance, European Union, False Statements and Misrepresentations, Judicial Review, OFMs, UKSC
Tagged 2004/38/EC, Asylum, Court of Appeal, Criminal Offences, Deception, European Union, Free Movement, Judicial Review, Spouses, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Free Movement and Deportation: Nonjudicial Restrictions on the Right to Work are Lawful
R (Lauzikas) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWHC 3215 (Admin) (16 December 2016) Like countless other European citizens, the Lithuanian claimant, Lauzikas, came to the UK to work the construction industry. He entered the UK in … Continue reading
Posted in Citizens Directive, Citizenship and Nationality, CJEU, Deportation, Detention, ECHR, Employment, European Union, Human Rights Act, Immigration Act 2014, Notices, Proportionality, UKSC, Working
Tagged 2004/38/EC, Brexit, Case Law, Criminal Offences, Detention, ECHR, European Union, Free Movement, Judicial Review, Removals
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Sahrawi Asylum Seeker’s Detention Upheld
R (ML (Morocco)) v SSHD [2016] EWHC 2177 (Admin) (31 August 2016) The Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons 1954 expresses quite “profound concern” for stateless persons not protected by the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Article 5, Asylum, Crime, Detention, Statelessness
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, Criminal Offences, Detention, Refugee Convention
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Supreme Court on Detention, Deportation and Mental Illness
R (O) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 19 (27 April 2016) Heaven knows: Yarl’s Wood IRC – the infamous British Gulag where pregnant women and children are locked up – may even make the likes … Continue reading
Posted in Article 5, Asylum, Deportation, Detention, ECHR, European Union, Immigration Act 2016, Judicial Review, Legal Aid, Nigeria, UKSC, Yarl's Wood IRC
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, Detention, Judicial Review, Mental Illness, Removals, UK Supreme Court
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Supreme Court: EU Law Fails ‘Nuisance’ Algerian Criminal
R (Nouazli) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 16 (20 April 2016) Algeria and immigration bring to mind the image of radical Islam. For example, in a decade long deportation battle involving six Algerian men which … Continue reading
Posted in Algeria, Article 3, Article 5, CFR, Citizens Directive, CJEU, Deportation, Detention, ECHR, European Union, Immigration Act 2014, Judicial Review, Proportionality, UKSC
Tagged 2004/38/EC, Asylum, Criminal Offences, Detention, ECHR, European Union, Judicial Review, Terrorism, UK Supreme Court
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Case Preview: Belhaj v Straw
Belhaj and another (Respondents) v Straw and others (Appellants) UKSC 2014/0264 concerns allegations by a former opponent of Colonel Gaddafi and his wife that they were abducted and unlawfully taken to Libya in February 2004 and were both allegedly detained … Continue reading
Posted in Al-Sweady, Article 6, Cases, Detention, Disclosure, ECHR, Human Rights Act, Libya, Public Interest
Tagged Case Law, Court of Appeal, Detention, ECHR, Terrorism, UK Supreme Court
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Child Asylum Seeker’s Detention Held Unlawful
AAM (A Child) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 2567 (QB) (27 September 2012) This case has a lot of faces because the legal issues it raises are quite complex. There is a lot in the … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Children, Detention, Human Rights Act, Iran, s 55 BCIA, UKSC
Tagged Detention, ECHR, EIG, False Imprisonment, Refugee Convention
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“Secret Detention”: Assurances and Effective Verification?
XX v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 742 In mid June 2012, the Court of Appeal (Lord Neuberger MR, Richards and Davis LJJ) unanimously upheld the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s (SIAC) decision that the deportation … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 3, Article 5, Article 6, Closed Evidence, Detention, Ethiopia, Terrorism
Tagged Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Terrorism
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