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The coronavirus pandemic created an impetus for the legal world to finally begin accepting digitalisation of processes, moving away from the traditional paper process to an online version. The immigration process is already faced with a myriad of concerns which…
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Mr Justice Lane releases updated presidential guidance note on arrangements in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) during the Covid-19 pandemic
21 September 2020: Amended version of March's Presidential Guidance Note No 1 2020Public Accounts Committee raises serious concerns over the work of the Home Office Immigration Enforcement directorate
18 September 2020: Report calls for the transformation of Immigration Enforcement into a data-led organisationNew report by TheCityUK and Ernst & Young examines UK post-Brexit immigration policy and international trade agreements
15 September 2020: Report calls for immigration strategy that provides business-friendly support for the financial services industryNew statement of changes to the Immigration Rules introduces Student and Child Student routes to replace Tier 4
10 September 2020: New study routes are first to be introduced as part of the new points-based immigration systemGuest blog
The impact of digitalisation on the immigration process
High Court dismisses challenge to conditions at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre - an extended look
In Soltany and Others v SSHD [2020] EWHC 2291 (Admin), the High Court dismissed a challenge to the conditions at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), which at the material times in 2017 and 2018, was run by G4S.
The claim for judicial review, which was brought by three…
Passports: Foreign law must be proved by expert evidence
Hussein and Another (Status of passports: foreign law) [2020] UKUT 250 (IAC): CMG Ockelton VP has explained that (i) a person who holds a genuine passport, apparently issued to him, and not falsified or altered, has to be regarded as a national of the State that issued the…
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G (A Child : Child Abduction) [2020] EWCA Civ 1185
Court of Appeal
HA (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1176
Court of Appeal
KAM (Nuba – return) Sudan CG [2020] UKUT 00269 (IAC)
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Adiukwu [2020] CSIH 47
Scottish Court of Session
AB (preserved FtT findings; Wisniewski principles) Iraq [2020] UKUT 00268 (IAC)
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Latest country reports
"They Have Robbed Me of My Life": Xenophobic Violence Against Non-Nationals in South Africa
Country Policy and Information Note - Libya: Security and humanitarian situation (September 2020)
Report of the independent international fact-finding mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Advance Unedited Version)
Report to the Government of the Republic of Moldova on the visit to the Republic of Moldova carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 28 January to 7 February 2020
Situation of human rights in Yemen, including violations and abuses since September 2014 - Comprehensive report of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen (Advance unedited version)
Latest legislation
Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
SI 2020 No. 1001. These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 to insert a new definition of online procedure advocacy services and two new tables of fees to enable payment of remuneration by the Lord Chancellor to providers of civil legal services where the HM…
Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
SI 2020 No. 515. Amends the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 and the provision made for Immigration and Asylum standard fees, by adding two fees to enable payment of remuneration by the Lord Chancellor to providers of civil legal services where the HM Courts & Tribunals…
Tribunal Procedure (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020
SI 2020 No. 416 (L. 11). These Rules make temporary amendments to the various rules which apply in the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal. Rule 10 amends the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014. Coming into force 10th April 2020.
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