“The Home Office investigates just six per cent of tip-offs from the public about suspected illegal immigrants, a new report has disclosed.
Nearly 49,000 reports were received over nine months about foreigners alleged to be living or working illegally in Britain, but officials looked into only 2,695 of them.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In this case the claimant was a failed asylum seeker. She had arrived in the UK at the age of 16. When she turned 18, the local authority continued to support her accommodation and education under section 23C of the Children Act 1989. This imposes after-care duties towards ‘former relevant children’, including by subsection (4) financial assistance in connection with education or training ‘to the extent that [her] welfare and [her] educational or training needs require it’. ”
Education Law Blog, 27th October 2013
Source: www.education11kbw.com
Sannie and another v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] WLR (D) 419
“A European Economic Area residence card did not exist in perpetuity once granted and the Secretary of State for the Home Department could revoke a residence card if a lack of entitlement was established.”
WLR Daily, 30th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The most senior judge in England and Wales says a public consultation will open on the ‘divisive’ subject soon.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two security workers have been jailed for helping to smuggle illegal immigrants through Birmingham Airport.”
BBC News, 4th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Plans for a £3,000 ‘security bond’ for some ‘high risk’ overseas visitors to the UK are to be abandoned, the Home Office has confirmed.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ali Naseem Bajwa QC and Terry McGuinness examine port stops carried out under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog,
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“There was no presumption that the eligibility guidelines issued by the UNHCR in relation to Iraq should be followed unless there were cogent reasons for not doing so.”
WLR Daily, 23rd October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A couple who trafficked a 10-year-old girl to the UK who was repeatedly raped and kept as a servant for nearly a decade have been jailed.”
BBC News, 23rd October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
MF (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1192; [2013] WLR (D) 380
“The new immigration rules, introduced by Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (2012) (HC 194) into Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (1994) (HC 395), which concerned the deportation of foreign criminals and the evaluation of their article 8 rights under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, were a complete code. Where a foreign criminal came within the provisions of paragraph 399 or 399A of HC395, as amended,, he could be entitled to leave to remain on a limited or indefinite basis on article 8 grounds, but where those paragraphs did not apply very compelling reasons, described as ‘exceptional circumstances’, would be required to outweigh the public interest in deportation.”
WLR Daily, 8th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Government has today published the Immigration Bill in the Commons. We have previously commented on this planned bill and we had been hoping that it might be quietly shelved or downgraded. However that appears not to be the case. From our point of view we are only interested in the housing related provisions in Chapter 1 of Part 3 (which start here) and I am not going to discuss the rest of the Bill.”
NearlyLegal, 10th October 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“Scotland Yard acted unlawfully after failing to fully investigate claims that innocent Muslims were detained and harassed at airports under sweeping anti-terrorism laws, the police watchdog has claimed.”
The Independent, 10th October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Immigration Bill: overarching documents.”
Home Office, 10th October 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
“MF (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1192. In what circumstances can a foreign criminal resist deportation on the basis of his right to family life under Article 8 of the Convention? Until 2012 this question was governed entirely by judge-made case law. Then rules 398, 399 and 399A were introduced into the Immigration Rules HC 395.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Home Secretary Theresa May says illegal immigrants will find it much harder to set up home in the UK under new laws. The Immigration Bill will require banks to check the immigration status of people applying to open accounts, and private landlords to make similar checks on their tenants.”
BBC News, 10th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Supreme Court, 9th October 2013
“The Home Office’s ‘go home’ poster vans targeting illegal immigrants have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for quoting misleading arrest statistics.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“As previously announced a number of changes to the Immigration Rules come into effect today, Tuesday 1 October 2013.”
UK Border Agency, 30th September 2013
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Home Secretary said she would end ‘abuse’ of article 8, which protects right to family life.”
The Independent, 30th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Liz Davies, writing in the Morning Star on Saturday 14 September, delivers a grim warning about the future of legal aid.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 17th September 2013
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
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