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 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…
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…
Even before Rhuppiah v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 803, lawyers and Judges have engaged in mental gymnastics worthy of the Olympic stadium when applying Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights in immigration cases.
It's complicated.…
By Matrix Legal Support Service, UK Supreme Court Blog,
The Supreme Court heard the appeal in R (Agyarko) v Secretary of State for the Home Department on 6-7 April 2016. It concerned the correct test to be applied where an individual unlawfully present in the UK asserts that they should be permitted to remain in the UK as a result of their…
While the points-based system will be more than familiar to nearly all EIN members, anyone not working within the field of immigration in the UK could be forgiven for thinking that such a system was a purely Australian concept, based on the calls for the UK to adopt the Australian system…
Secretary of State for the Home Department v MSM (Somalia) and UNHCR (Intervener) [2016] EWCA Civ 715: This case raised an important issue in relation to modification of conduct in refugee cases where the convention ground is imputed political opinion. The Respondent was a journalist from…
The stream of case law on Parliament's new statutory human rights framework for Article 8 immigration cases has disgorged another important but unhelpful decision: MA (Pakistan) and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 705.
MA (Pakistan) concerned the…
"What if…?" These kinds of questions may now seem pointless in the aftermath of the victory of Leave in the EU Referendum. Instead we hear 'What's done is done', 'Leave means Leave', 'out is out', etc., etc., etc.
But one question has always…
COUNTDOWN TO THE REFERENDUM:
A series of articles by Matrix that will explore a number of legal topics surrounding the UK referendum on 23 June 2016.
Immigration and Brexit
Nick Armstrong is a member of the Matrix immigration team, and most of his EU work is that in that context. He…
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