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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
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- 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
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Category Archives: Kenya
Court of Appeal examines procedural unfairness in EEA family permit case and holds FTT acted unfairly on remittances
Abdi & Ors v Entry Clearance Officer [2023] EWCA Civ 1455 (07 December 2023) The Court of Appeal has held that the FTT had acted unfairly during the hearing of an appeal against the SSHD’s refusal of Dahir Elmi Abdi, … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Court of Appeal, Dependants, EUSS, Fairness, Kenya, Procedural Fairness, Somalia, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged European Union, Procedural Unfairness, Remittances, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Government loses bid to lower bar for exclusion of extremists from refugee status
The Secretary of State for the Home Department v NF [2021] EWCA Civ 17 (11 January 2021) The Court of Appeal has dismissed the government’s appeal as to the lowering of the high threshold for the engagement of article 1F(c) … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Al-Shabab, Appeals, Asylum, Court of Appeal, Kenya, Refugee Convention, Somalia, Terrorism, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, Court of Appeal, Kenya, Refugee Convention, Terrorism, UK Supreme Court
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Passports: Foreign law must be proved by expert evidence
Hussein and Another (Status of passports: foreign law) [2020] UKUT 250 (IAC) CMG Ockelton VP has explained that (i) a person who holds a genuine passport, apparently issued to him, and not falsified or altered, has to be regarded as … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Dependants, ECHR, Kenya, Nationality, Refugee Convention, Somalia, Tanzania, Tribunals
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Expert Evidence, Experts, Kenya, Pakistan, Passports, Persecution, Removals, Tanzania, Tribunals
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Case Preview: Kiarie and Byndloss v SSHD
After a raft of cases on the “foreign criminal” theme – such as Nouazli [2016] UKSC 16, Johnson [2016] UKSC 56, Makhlouf [2016] UKSC 59 and Hesham Ali [2016] UKSC 60 – were decided last year, Kiarie and Byndloss (Appellants) … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Appeals, Article 8, Automatic Deportation, Children, Deportation, ECHR, Human Rights Act, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Act 2016, Jamaica, Judicial Review, Kenya, Public Interest, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, Criminal Offences, ECHR, Judicial Review, UK Supreme Court
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Terror Imam: Monitoring Measures Breach ECHR
DD v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 1681 (Admin) (19 June 2015) No matter where one looks, judges seem to be hell-bent on helping wicked individuals. For example, SIAC’s recent decision that N2’s continued detention was … Continue reading
Posted in Al-Shabab, Article 3, Article 8, Asylum, Human Rights Act, Islam, Kenya, Refugee Convention, Somalia, Terrorism
Tagged Criminal Offences, ECHR, Pakistan, Persecution, Terrorism, TPIM
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Case Comment: SI (variation/curtailment – human rights ground) Pakistan [2011] UKUT 00118 (IAC)
This brief case makes a hulking legal point. Moreover, it illustrates the games which the UKBA “plays” with the objects of its control. Although the outcome was not in favour of SI (the appellant), the case is quite valuable because … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Dependants, East African Asians, Families, Immigration Rules, Kenya, Pakistan, Removals, Sedley LJ, Settlement, SQVS, Tribunals, UKBA
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Dependants, ECHR, Families, Kenya, Pakistan, Removals, SQVS, UKBA
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Case Comment: FW v SSHD [2011] EWCA Civ 264
Lies and false statements in immigration applications are a common problem. Many a “clever” foreigner, often meritorious enough to qualify for the coveted Post Study Work visa, has fallen foul of the deception rules. It really isn’t a great idea … Continue reading
Agency’s interim limit for Tier 2 reveals conflicting figures
We have now officially entered a very grim period in modern British history which is beginning to mirror the horrors and discrimination which the British authorities imposed on the “citizens of the United Kingdom and the Colonies” by way of … Continue reading
Posted in AP (Russia), East African Asians, Immigration Cap, Immigration Rules, Kenya, Pankina, PBS, Tier 2, UKBA
Tagged AP (Russia), Immigration Cap, Points Based System, UKBA
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Case Comment: FW (Paragraph 322: untruthful answer) Kenya [2010] UKUT 165 (IAC)
Under the common law lies, silences, omissions, misleading statements and false representations all give rise to liability in criminal and civil matters. Immigration matters tend to contain a mixture of both civil and criminal elements when ascertaining a person’s worthiness … Continue reading
British nationality claims: The Case of the East African Asians
How the claim arises (see update here) There is a large population of South Asians in East Africa. Their presence there dates back to the time of the British Empire when large numbers of South Asian workers were brought to … Continue reading
Kenyan constitutional reform: potential problems in Africa’s Asian British citizenship maze
It is entirely possible that Kenyan Asians who were persecuted in Kenya and discriminated against at home in the UK (which denied them their rightful entry into the UK through perverse legislation such as the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968) will … Continue reading
