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Immigration Judicial Review moving to Tribunal

By Mark Symes, 04 March 2011

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…

Fresh claims

By Colin Yeo, 08 March 2011

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…

Zimbabweans - new Country Guidance in EM, and developments on Article 8

By Mark Symes, 15 March 2011

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…

Proving Rights of Residence regarding EEA Estranged Spouses

By Mark Symes, 17 May 2011

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…

Supreme Court finds immigration detainee was falsely imprisoned

By Mark Symes, 31 May 2011

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…

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