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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Single protection interview: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Information booklet for asylum applications
- Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test (SELT)
- 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’ – UK politics live
- 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: Judicial Review
The label on the tin is obviously important: AI hallucinations and false authorities in the Upper Tribunal
R (Munir) v SSHD (AI hallucinations; supervision; Hamid) [2026] UKUT 81 (IAC) (17 November 2025) In this case, the Upper Tribunal (Judges Lindsley, Keith and Blundell) made a series of observations about the use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and gave … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Cases, Evidence, Hamid, Judicial Review, Removals, Skilled Worker, Tribunals
Tagged AI, Authorities, Hamid, Legal Resources, SRA, Tribunals, Witnesses
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Indian student’s visa cancellation held unlawful
Kaur & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 1942 (Admin) (25 July 2025) In these judicial review proceedings, Matthew Butt KC held that Mrs Kaur’s permission to remain was cancelled … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Cancellation, Damages, ECHR, Human Rights, Immigration Rules, India, IS.91R notice, Judicial Review, RED.0001 notice, Students
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, ECHR, Immigration Rules, India, Judicial Review, Students
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Upper Tribunal refuses costs because proceedings only existed “in the realm of politics and not in the realm of law”
IX, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Judicial Review; costs) [2025] UKUT 154 (IAC) (23 April 2025) The Upper Tribunal (Swift J, UTJ Smith) has reiterated that the general rule (Civil procedure Rules … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Costs, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, MEDP, Refugee Convention, Removals, Rwanda
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, CPR, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Tribunals
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Court of Appeal: No duty on SSHD to conduct assessment of impact of revocation on sponsor
R (Prestwick Care Ltd & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWCA Civ 184 (11 March 2025) Singh, Baker and Jeremy Baker LJJ held in this case that in deciding whether to revoke a Tier 2 … 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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“Good character” requirement for British citizenship cannot be overridden or outweighed by a child applicant’s interests
Jackson, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 2012 (Admin) (31 July 2024) In this case, Sweeting J refused to grant permission to apply for judicial review of the SSHD’s refusal to … Continue reading
Supreme Court dismisses government’s appeal in Syria and TEO case
QX v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] UKSC 26 (05 August 2024) Unanimously dismissing the Home Secretary’s appeal, the Supreme Court held in the case of “QX” that the right to a fair hearing guaranteed by article … Continue reading
Posted in Al Qaeda, Article 6, Article 8, Disclosure, ECHR, Human Rights Act, Judicial Review, Syria, TEO, Terrorism, UKSC
Tagged Al-Qaeda, Article 6, Article 8, Court of Appeal, ECHR, TEO, UK Supreme Court
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SCA must consider creation of debt bondage and repayment by modern slavery
R (On the Application Of SM) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 1683 (Admin) (01 July 2024) In these judicial review proceedings, Sarah Clarke KC (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court) held … Continue reading
Posted in Albania, Children, Debt bondage, ECHR, Human Trafficking, Judicial Review, Modern Slavery, NRM, Passports, SCA
Tagged Case Law, Children, Human Trafficking, Judicial Review, Modern Slavery
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Issue estoppel prevents refusal of passport once a person is judged to be a British citizen by the FTT
R (Islam) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 1838 (Admin) (17 July 2024) In these proceedings, HHJ Auerbach (Sitting as a Judge of the High Court) held that issue estoppel prevented the Home Secretary, through the … Continue reading
Obligation of civil servants under the Civil Service Code not breached by defunct ministerial Rwanda removal decisions
FDA, R (On the Application Of) v Minister for the Cabinet Office & Anor [2024] EWHC 1729 (Admin) (05 July 2024) Rwanda removals were the Conservative party’s vanity project which cost the UK taxpayer £700 million. Everything was wrong with … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asylum, Civil Service Code, ECHR, High Court, International Law, Judicial Review, Politics, Refugee Convention, Rwanda
Tagged Asylum, Civil Servants, ECHR, FDA, Rule 34, Rwanda, Rwanda Policy
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Revocation of sponsor licence without providing a meaningful opportunity to respond is unlawful
R (New Hope Care Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 1270 (Admin) (24 May 2024) In these judicial review proceedings, David Pievsky KC held that the SSHD’s decision to revoke New Hope Care Ltd’s sponsor … Continue reading
Notice of curtailment emailed eight months earlier upheld as lawful
Escobar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 1097 (Admin) (10 May 2024) Sheldon J held in this case that Mr Marco Antonio Escobar, a Bolivian national who had leave to remain in the UK on the … Continue reading
Posted in Curtailment, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Notices, Spouse visa, Spouses
Tagged Case Law, Court of Appeal, Curtailment, Email, Notices
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Court of Appeal’s guidance as to damages and delay in lifting NRPF condition
ASY & Ors v Home Office [2024] EWCA Civ 373 (18 April 2024) Allowing this appeal, the Court of Appeal provided guidance as to when a claimant had a right to damages for breach of their rights under article 3 of … Continue reading
Posted in Article 3, British Citizenship, Children, Court of Appeal, Damages, ECHR, Judicial Review, NRPF
Tagged Case Law, Court of Appeal, Damages, ECHR, Judicial Review
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Illegal Migration Act 2023 is incompatible with human rights
In the matter of an application by JR295 for judicial review [2024] NIKB 35 In these judicial review proceedings, Humphreys J held that the provisions of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 (“IMA”) are incompatible with article 2 of the Ireland/Northern … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Article 3, Article 4, Article 5, Article 6, Article 8, Asylum, Brexit, ECHR, Human Rights Act, Judicial Review, Northern Ireland, Windsor Framework, Withdrawal Agreement
Tagged Case Law, ECHR, Judicial Review, Northern Ireland, UK Supreme Court, Windsor Framework
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Home Office wins in Supreme Court against Belarusian man with “limbo” status
R (AM (Belarus)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] UKSC 13 (24 April 2024) The Supreme Court has allowed the Home Office’s appeal in the case of AM who was a Belarusian who stayed in “limbo” by … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Crime, Deportation, ECHR, ECtHR, False Statements, Hostile Environment, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Public Interest, Statelessness, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Somali ILR holder stranded in Africa for 16 years succeeds in Cart judicial review in Court of Appeal
Ali v Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 372 (17 April 2024) Andrews LJ described this case as “most extraordinary”. The Court of Appeal held that FTTJ Rhys Davies had erred in his interpretation of … Continue reading
Failure to conduct statistical data monitoring on provision of accommodation to vulnerable PNMAS breaches PSED
R (DXK, Ivory Coast) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 579 (Admin) (15 March 2024) In these intricate proceedings, an asylum seeker and new mother known as “DXK” who was a national of the Ivory Coast … Continue reading
Posted in Article 14, Article 3, Article 8, Asylum, ECHR, High Court, Human Rights Act, Ivory Coast, Judicial Review, PNMAS, PSED, Women
Tagged Accommodation, Article 8, ECHR, Judicial Review, PNMAS, PSED, Women
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Appendix FM leave knocks out Zambrano right of residence
R (Akinsanya & Anor) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 469 (Admin) (11 March 2024) Eyre J has held that before Brexit, the right to reside in the UK available to carers under the decision in … Continue reading
Three year delay in making decision on application is lawful
Zhou & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 81 (07 February 2024) The Court of Appeal has held that UT Judge Frances had not erred in refusing a family … Continue reading
