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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 Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Mark Ockelton,...
The 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 a number of interesting points, including the pending release...
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 which were from reconsiderations by ordinary...
On 25 May 2011 the Supreme Court allowed the appeal in Kambadzi v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] UKSC 23
The issue was whether the Appellant was falsely imprisoned in circumstances in which there was a statutory power to detain, but the Secretary of State had failed to exercise...
In the recent decision of Amos, we find the Court of Appeal commenting on the approach to the European Union law of right found in the Citizens Directive and transposed into the domestic EEA Regulations by Regulation 10(5) and 15(1)(f).
The Court summarised the requirements for permanent residence...
The decision in EM Zimbabwe of 14 March 2011 changes the prevailing situation of Zimbabwe asylum seekers. From 19 November 2008 until 13 March 2011, RN Zimbabwe prevailed, meaning that the critical issue for a person whose primary asylum claim had failed, and now relied on the general country...
In R (on the application of MN (Tanzania)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 193 the Court of Appeal has yet again returned to the vexed issue of the standard of review in asylum fresh claim judicial reviews. As Mark discussed last week, this category of judicial review...
Presently the Administrative Court has a power to transfer judicial review proceedings into the Upper Tribunal: but rather a sterile one in the immigration field, because of the wording of section 31A of the Seniors (previously, Supreme) Courts Act 1981, which excludes judicial review where it...
As entry for migrants becomes increasingly difficult under the Points Based System, it is necessary to consider what other avenues might be available for firms to bring staff into the United Kingdom. For those firms incorporated elsewhere in the European Union there may be an avenue under the...
Can an asylum seeker be a student for immigration rule purposes ? This matters in practice, because if they can, it might be wrong for the Secretary of State to curtail their leave to remain as a student when refusing them asylum. Time there was when one might have imagined only answer to this...
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About HJT Training guest blog
This guest blog is provided to EIN courtesy of HJT Training, specialists in immigration law training. The contents are copyrighted by HJT Training. The blog is intended to be a repository of useful updating information, to be used by HT Training when compiling future sets of training materials. We hope that readers will also find it useful.
Blog posts are authored by Mark Symes, a co-founder of HJT Training and a barrister at Garden Court Chambers specialising in all aspects of immigration law, and by Colin Yeo, a HJT Training director and a barrister at Renaissance Chambers specialising in all aspects of immigration law and child care proceedings.
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