May 20, 2024 Illegal Migration Act 2023: disapplied in Northern Ireland and incompatible with the ECHR By Adam Straw KC In Re The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission [2024] NIKB 35, the High Court in Northern Ireland held that a number of central...
Apr 02, 2024 Interim Measures at the European Court of Human Rights - Form, Substance, Future By Cian Murphy Interim measures – steps that a court indicates to maintain the status quo until it decides the dispute – can be a key feature of...
Jul 25, 2022 The Supreme Court explores the limits of diplomatic immunity in Basfar v Wong By Shanthi Sivakumaran The principle of legal immunity from civil and criminal suits for diplomatic agents is a long recognised and protected principle in...
Feb 11, 2022 Waiting in the wings: Zambrano carers to get EUSS re-think By Michael Spencer The Court of Appeal has dismissed the Home Secretary’s appeal in Akinsanya, confirming that she misinterpreted UK law when setting the...
Feb 09, 2022 Donnchadh Greene and Gabriel Tan: Statutory Interpretation and Citizenship: D4 v SSHD and PRCBC v SSHD – UK Constitutional Law Association By Donnchadh Greene This piece considers two recent decisions – one by the Court of Appeal (“CA”): D4 v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022]...
Jan 19, 2022 Home Office acted unlawfully in detaining unaccompanied young people for age assessments at port in Kent By Shu Shin Luh Since September 2020, hundreds of unaccompanied young people arriving in Kent have been detained by the Home Secretary for the purposes...
Dec 22, 2021 Deportation order does not terminate EU right to reside By Agata Patyna Simon Cox In Silva v SSHD, 11 November 2021, the High Court declared that a decision to deport under the Immigration (European Economic Area)...
Jun 14, 2021 Citizens of somewhere: ‘Zambrano’ carers and the EU Settlement Scheme By Michael Spencer R (on the application of Akinsanya) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 1535 (Admin) What was this case about? The...
Mar 05, 2021 Fee waivers: Home Office defeated again By Alasdair Mackenzie In a fresh reversal for its long-standing practice of charging people large fees for various immigration-related processes, the Home...
Jul 25, 2020 Unfit for work? Fair trial rights means benefit pending review By Simon Cox Mr Connor, a litigant in person, yesterday persuaded the High Court to strike down a benefit review rule as a breach of Article 6 of the...
May 27, 2020 The new Immigration Bill-could it cause another Windrush Scandal? By Doughty Street Chambers Krishnendu Mukherjee This week the House of Commons heard the second reading of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2020...
Apr 23, 2020 What is the Home Office not telling us? By Alasdair Mackenzie How can the Home Office be prevented from withholding important information in immigration appeals? In Nimo (appeals: duty of...