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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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