“The UK government is considering legal action against Spain over the imposition of additional border checks in Gibraltar, Downing Street has said.”
BBC News, 12th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A refugee group said it would not take legal action over a scheme that saw vans drive through London calling on illegal immigrants to leave.”
BBC News, 12th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A scheme which saw vans drive through London calling on illegal immigrants to leave is to be investigated by the advertising watchdog.”
BBC News, 9th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Home Office is facing an investigation into whether its officials broke the law by carrying out ‘racist’ spot checks to find illegal immigrants, as it emerged that domestic violence victims may also have been questioned about their right to be in Britain.”
The Independent, 3rd August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Controversial government adverts urging illegal immigrants to ‘go home’ have been reported to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) by a Labour peer.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Same-sex couples face continued uncertainty over their legal rights abroad that could leave them vulnerable. Family lawyer Fiona Wood explains more.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Around 100 suspected war criminals applied for UK citizenship last year, many of whom are thought to have been living in Britain for years, it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Ministry of Justice is to make it tougher for judicial reviews to be brought to court, following concerns that the procedure is being abused by pressure groups and campaigners.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The requirement, laid down under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971, that rules affecting immigrants be laid before Parliament before they became lawful applied to rules which a migrant had to fulfil as a condition of his obtaining leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom and did not apply to rules which an educational establishment had to fulfil before it was entitled to sponsor students from outside the European Economic Area.”
WLR Daily, 17th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“David Wood, the head of the Home Office’s immigration enforcement, has given a qualified apology to the family of Jimmy Mubenga, the Angolan asylum seeker who an inquest jury last week ruled was unlawfully killed by three G4S escort guards.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Only one in every 100 reports of illegal immigration has resulted in someone being removed from the country, the Home Office has admitted.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“When applied to either recognised refugees or British citizens Appendix FM of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (HC 395), as inserted, which prevented entry clearance to a party to a marriage where the income of the sponsor did not meet the minimum threshold, was a disproportionate interference with the right to respect for family life under article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 5th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Immigration Act 1971, Schedule 2, paragraph 16(2) (‘paragraph 16’) empowers the Home Secretary, acting through immigration officers, to detain a person if there is reasonable ground to suspect that he is liable to be removed as an illegal entrant to the United Kingdom. Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 (‘section 55’) imposes duties regarding the welfare of children on the Secretary of State and immigration officers in all immigration matters. The issue on this appeal was whether section 55 rendered the appellant’s detention for a period of 13 days unlawful, in circumstances in which the respondent acted in the mistaken but reasonable belief that the appellant was aged over 18.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Home Office’s backlog of 500,000 unresolved immigration and asylum cases will not be cleared for another 37 years at current rates of progress, according to a parliamentary watchdog.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (AA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: [2013] UKSC 49; [2013] WLR (D) 272
“The Home Secretary did not act unlawfully when she detained a 17-year-old illegal immigrant in the mistaken but reasonable belief that he was aged over 18.”
WLR Daily, 10th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A bogus couple whose sham marriage was scuppered after the bride could not remember the groom’s name have been jailed. Jayeola Abiola, 27, a Nigerian national, barely knew his would-be wife Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes, 29, from Portugal. They planned to walk down the aisle to the ballad The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – a choice Hull crown court heard was ‘rather apt.’ ”
The Guardian, 11th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court, 10th July 2013
“Rogue firms employing illegal immigrants face new £20,000 penalty per illegal worker.”
Home Office, 9th July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
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