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Freedom of Religion - A significant new AG opinion?

By Ed Mynott, 10 May 2012

In his opinion for the Court of Justice of the European Union (in Germany v Y and Z, C-71/11, C-99/11) Advocate General Bot has taken the view that the prohibitions in Pakistani law directed against the Ahmadiyya community are likely to constitute a...

Getting Tough at Strasbourg?

By Richard, 8 May 2012

The media have been much exercised with the way that 'foreign criminals', who are now liable to 'automatic' deportation, are able to invoke the European Convention on Human Rights in order, quite often, to prevent deportation from...

Judicial Review in the Upper Tribunal - HJT's December Conference

By Mark Symes, 18 October 2011

Judicial Review in the Upper Tribunal - HJT's December Conference HJT Training held a very successful session on the transfer of judicial reviews to the Upper Tribunal on 30 September 2011. Speakers included Deputy President of the Upper...

Transfer of judicial review

By Colin Yeo, 10 October 2011

The HJT Training conference on transfer of some forms of judicial review into the Upper Tribunal was a sell out and the event was a great success. Mark Ockelton, Deputy President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal, revealed...

Asylum Appeals to the Court of Appeal Radically Cut

By Mark Symes, 15 August 2011

It is a dark day for asylum seekers and their ability to obtain lawful adjudications on their appeals on Refugee Convention grounds. Alive to the 77% increase in applications for permission to appeal in immigration cases since 2005, the majority of...

Latest News

UNHCR publishes a comparative study on the interpretation of "Particular Social Group"

15 May 2012:
UNHCR has published a comparative study of how jurisprudence has developed in the last decade in relation to the interpretation of Convention Ground "Particular Social Group...
Immigration and asylum policy: Government plans and progress made

11 May 2012: House of Commons Library report providing an overview of the Government's immigration and asylum policy priorities, and the progress it has made so far in implementing them
Removing full right of appeal for family visitors

10 May 2012:
A clause in the Crime and Courts Bill, published on 10 May 2012, will remove the full right of appeal for those applying to enter the UK as a family visitor. Subject to Parliamentary...

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Immigration: domestic violence

House of Commons Library information report of 11 April 2012 on the new policy concession in effect since 1 April 2012 for migrant victims of domestic violence
Home Office Immigration Rules [Current Version in effect from 06-04-2012]

A complete and consolidated single page version of the Home Office UK Border Agency Immigration Rules, in effect from 06 April 2012
Statement of changes in Immigration Rules Cm 8337 (April 2012)

Presented to Parliament on 4 April 2012. The purpose of these changes are: to implement annual limits for Tier 2 of the Points-Based System; to raise the skills threshold for the Tier 2 (General) and Tier 2 (Intra-Company Transfer)...

Latest Legislation

Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2012

SI 2012 No. 971. These Regulations, made under sections 51(3), 52(1) and 52(3) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, specify fees relating to immigration and nationality. They are made for the purposes of the Immigration...
Immigration and Nationality (Cost Recovery Fees) Regulations 2012

SI 2012 No. 813. These Regulations, made under sections 51(3), 52(1) and 52(3) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, specify fees relating to immigration and nationality. They are made for the purposes of the Immigration...
Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Procedure) Rules 2005 [EIN Annotated Version]

Amended and annotated version of S.I. 2005/230 (wef 4th April 2005), up-to-date as of 19th December 2011.

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