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Ordinary family ties won't stop deportation of "foreign criminals", finds Court of Appeal

By Richard O’Dair, Law mostly, 22 November 2016

The Court of Appeal has asserted the relevance of the Immigration Rules in Article 8 appeals against deportation orders, taking a fine tooth-comb to Tribunal decisions that don't attach sufficient weight to the Rules. "The [Employment Appeals Tribunal] must respect the factual findings…

Migrants in limbo in Europe have the right to live in dignity

By Nils Muižnieks, 15 November 2016

In some countries, they call them "invisible persons", in others – "ghosts". Throughout Europe there are many migrants, primarily rejected asylum seekers, who live in a state of protracted legal and social limbo without any long-term prospects. The authorities refuse to regularize them or…

Case Comment: R (Johnson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 56

By Aidan Wills, UK Supreme Court Blog, 04 November 2016

This judgment concerns continuing discrimination arising from the denial of automatic British citizenship at birth to a person born outside wedlock. The Supreme Court held (unanimously) that it is a violation of ECHR, art 8, read with art 14, to deport a "foreign criminal" who would have…

Tooth and lies: assessing the age of lone refugee children

By Ben Amunwa, Law mostly, 24 October 2016

A Tory MP has called for child refugees from the Calais camp to be subjected to dental x-rays to determine their ages. Here's why dentists and judges disagree. An awful lot has been said about the recent arrival in the UK of fourteen children from the Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp that's…

The Historian as Judge

By Lord Sumption, 11 October 2016

The Historian as Judge - Lord Sumption's address to judges of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber and Administrative Appeals Chamber at the Rolls Building, London on 6 October 2016: I am told that this evening is part of a series training sessions for Upper Tribunal judges. My first…

Concrete Walls and Bureaucratic Barriers to Access to Justice for Migrants

By Justine Stefanelli, UK Human Rights Blog, 06 October 2016

Work recently began on a wall in Calais, funded by the UK government, to prevent migrants and asylum seekers from crossing the Channel to Britain. Nearly simultaneously, the government announced that it would increase immigration tribunal fees by over 500%, erecting a different type of…

Barack Obama says the refugee crisis is a ‘test of our humanity’ – is Britain failing it?

By Nando Sigona via The Conversation, 22 September 2016

In a compassionate and compelling speech, Barack Obama called the response to the global refugee crisis “a test of our humanity” and invited world leaders attending the Leaders' Summit on Refugees on September 20 to do more to assist those fleeing war and persecution. The British prime…

Strasbourg finds that UK authorities again fail to show "due diligence" in deportation proceedings

By Fraser Simpson, UK Human Rights Blog, 15 September 2016

V.M. v. the United Kingdom, Application no. 49734/12, 1 September 2016 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that part of an individual's detention pending deportation violated the right to liberty protected by Article 5, ECHR. This judgment is the second recent ruling to find a…

A warning against populists and demagogues in Europe and U.S.

By Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, OHCHR, 06 September 2016

A speech by Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, The Hague, Monday, 05 September 2016 Dear Friends, I wish to address this short statement to Mr. Geert Wilders, his acolytes, indeed to all those like him – the populists, demagogues and political…

Non-implementation of the European Court of Human Rights' judgments: our shared responsibility

By Nils Muižnieks, 23 August 2016

In December last year, the Council of Europe's Steering Committee on Human Rights (CDDH) published a report on the longer-term future of the system of the European Convention on Human Rights ("the Convention"). There were two challenges which particularly struck me: firstly, prolonged non…

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