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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
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- Guidance: Pakistan: country policy and information notes
- Migration transparency data
- Form: Information for your immigration bail reporting appointment
- Guidance: Document checks and charges for carriers
- Guidance: Sponsor a seasonal worker
- Global Corporate Law
- Key Features of the Singapore Convention on Mediation
- What is the test for a ‘one man company’?
- LIBOR: The Final Nail in the Coffin?
- Banking and Misconduct: A Critique of the Cure of Culture
- Court of Appeal Opens the Door to LIBOR and Benchmark Misrepresentation Claims
- Habib Bank Expelled From New York
- Supreme Court: Equity’s Darling and Guidance on Enforceability of Trusts where the Institution is Unknown
- Conduct Costs on the Rise (2012-2016): No End in Sight
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court
- Immigration News
- Shabana Mahmood hints she could water down plans on leave to remain
- Shabana Mahmood says Labour party wants to create ‘fairness in our immigration system’ – as it happened
- Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
- UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
- Facing up to the threat that Reform poses to our democracy | Letters
- UK politics live: Pat McFadden tells Labour activists they should not defend benefits system ‘status quo’ because it ‘writes off’ claimants
- ‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
- Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference
- Ukrainians in UK fear homelessness over host scheme funding cuts
- Londoners get £3bn a year subsidy because structure of council tax biased against north, says thinktank – UK politics live
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Category Archives: European Union
Court of Appeal dismisses EEA residence card appeal
Tipu v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWCA Civ 215 (05 March 2025) Bean, Andrews and Falk LJJ held in this appeal that the Upper Tribunal had been right to reject the residence claim of Mr Tipu, … Continue reading
Court of Appeal: Tribunal correct to say refusal must advise on right of appeal
R (Chowdhury) v The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration And Asylum Chamber) & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 1380 (08 November 2024) The Court of Appeal held in this case that the Upper Tribunal had not erred in finding that a decision notice … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Court of Appeal, European Union, Judicial Review, Notices
Tagged Appeals, Case Law, Court of Appeal, European Union, Judicial Review, Notices, Tribunals
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Court of Appeal: Bouchereau is irrelevant to test of ‘imperative grounds of public security’
Secretary of State for the Home Department v George [2024] EWCA Civ 1192 (14 October 2024) The Court of Appeal held in this deportation case that although the historic case of R v Bouchereau (Pierre Roger) (30/77) [1978] QB 732 had provided … Continue reading
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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Court of Appeal allows SSHD’s appeal on showing dependency
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Rexhaj [2024] EWCA Civ 784 (11 July 2024) The Court of Appeal has held that an Albanian national’s prior grant of leave to enter the UK pursuant to entry clearance under Appendix … Continue reading
Court of Appeal: Albanian siblings of EU nationals wrongly refused status under EUSS
Vasa v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 777 (10 July 2024) The Court of Appeal held in this case that the SSHD had erred in refusing to grant pre-settled or settled status under the … Continue reading
Cross-examination of appellant by judge was unfair
Hima v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 680 (26 June 2024) The Court of Appeal held in this case that the Upper Tribunal had erred in deciding that the First-tier Tribunal’s decision upholding the … Continue reading
Posted in Albania, Asylum, Cross-Examination, European Union, Judges, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, European Union, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Court of Appeal disapproves of tribunal’s decision in Capparelli
R (Roehrig) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 240 (12 March 2024) The Court of Appeal has held that a child born to a French national mother who was ordinarily resident in the UK while … Continue reading
Refusal to issue passport owing to fraud held unlawful
R (Gjini) v SSHD [2021] EWHC 1677 (Admin) (21 June 2021) In these proceedings, Morris J decided that the SSHD’s refusal to issue a British passport to one Mr Leonard Gjini, a dual British and Albanian national, who had obtained … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Citizenship and Nationality, Deprivation of Citizenship, European Union, False Statements and Misrepresentations, Fraud, High Court, Judicial Review, Proportionality
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, British Citizenship, British Nationality Act 1981, Judicial Review, WMS
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Limited leave to remain does not knock out a Zambrano claim
R (Akinsanya) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 1535 (Admin) (09 June 2021) Mostyn J has held that the SSHD had erred when formulating in Annex 1 paragraph (b) of Appendix EU to the Immigration Rules the … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix EU, Appendix FM, Article 8, Brexit, Children, CJEU, Court of Appeal, ECHR, European Union, EUSS, Human Rights Act, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, NRPF, Permanent Residence, UKSC, Zambrano
Tagged Article 8, Brexit, Court of Appeal, ECHR, European Union, EUSS, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, UK Supreme Court, Zambrano
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“Immigration exemption” from the GDPR is unlawful
R (The Open Rights Group & Anor) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2021] EWCA Civ 800 (26 May 2021) The Court of Appeal has decided that that “immigration exemption” paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Appeals, Article 8, CFR, CJEU, Court of Appeal, ECHR, European Union, GDPR, Hostile Environment, Judicial Review, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Court of Appeal, DPA, European Union, GDPR, Judicial Review, UK Supreme Court
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Local authority can apply for EUSS settled status for children in care without court approval
W and Re Z (EU Settled Status for Looked After Children) [2021] EWHC 783 (Fam) (31 March 2021) In these proceedings the court was required to determine whether local authorities needed its authorisation to apply for immigration status or passports … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix EU, Brexit, Children, European Union, EUSS, Family Court, Free Movement, Settled Status, Settlement, Windrush
Tagged Brexit, Children, European Union, Passports, Settled Status, Withdrawal Agreement
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Proof, expert evidence and credibility in trafficking cases
MN v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1746 (21 December 2020) The Court of Appeal has decided that the two-stage procedure provided for by the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) to determine whether a person is … Continue reading
Posted in Article 4, Council of Europe, Court of Appeal, ECAT, ECHR, European Union, Expert Evidence, Female Genital Mutilation, Forced marriage, Human Trafficking, Judicial Review, Nigeria, Slavery, UKSC
Tagged Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, European Union, Judicial Review, UK Supreme Court
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No further “exceptional circumstances” test for Zambrano carers in deportation cases
Robinson (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 53 (16 December 2020) This appeal raised the issue whether a third-country national (TCN) otherwise benefiting from the derivative right to reside within EU territory pursuant to the … Continue reading
Posted in Brexit, CFR, Children, CJEU, Court of Appeal, European Union, Jamaica, UKSC
Tagged Brexit, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, European Union, UK Supreme Court
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Upper Tribunal says gender terminology respecting the chosen identity of claimants must be used
Mx M (gender identity – HJ (Iran) – (terminology) El Salvador [2020] UKUT 313 (IAC) (22 October 2020) In this case involving an appellant who was a national of El Salvador and who considered themselves a homosexual man when living … Continue reading
Regulation 33 certification: Court of Appeal quashes refusal of interim relief to Portuguese national
R (Mendes) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 924 (17 July 2020) The only target of this appeal was Murray J’s order refusing interim relief in the form of a mandatory order requiring the Home … Continue reading
Mother of British child fails on Chikwamba and Zambrano
Younas (section 117B(6)(b); Chikwamba; Zambrano) [2020] UKUT 129 (IAC)(24 March 2020) Chikwamba [2008] UKHL 40 and Zambrano (C-34/09, EU:C:2011:124) were landmark cases. The Chikwamba principle is that there is no public interest in removing a person from the UK in … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix FM, Article 8, Asylum, Children, CJEU, COVID-19, ECHR, European Union, Human Rights Act, Immigration Rules, Judges, Pakistan, Proportionality, Public Interest, Removals, Spouses, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, ECHR, European Union, Immigration Rules, Spouses, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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“Open for business”: Analysis of the UK’s new PBS
An “Australian-style points-based system” (new PBS) to control immigration was one of six guarantees given by Boris Johnson to “get Brexit done in January and unleash the potential of our whole country.” The new PBS is the cornerstone of the UK’s post-Brexit immigration … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix EU, Brexit, COVID-19, European Union, EUSS, Free Movement, Immigration Rules, Paragraph 322(5), PBS, Politics, Settlement, Students, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 4, UKSC
Tagged Coronavirus, Economy, European Union, Free Movement, Immigration Rules, Points Based System, UK Supreme Court
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Brexit: Appeal rights for EUSS applicants
The EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS), under which 3.34 million applications have been made and more than 3 million applicants have been granted status, caused uproar because applicants were not given any appeal rights and only had the right to administrative … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, European Union, EUSS, Free Movement, Immigration Rules, Tribunals
Tagged 2004/38/EC, European Union, Free Movement, Tribunals
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