As we all settle back into our routines after Summer breaks, it seems a good moment to bring our friends and subscribers up to date with the improvements and updates we have made to EIN and to provide a brief preview of what is “in the pipeline”.
I hope most of you will have noticed the cleaner site design we are now using. It is a subtle set of updates but I think that it provides a less crowded front page, bringing the more commonly used sections of the site within easy reach. It was a deliberately restrained re-design and seems to have been universally well-received.
You may also have noticed that individual Cases within Case Law now have citations clearly labelled at the start of each judgment. For example, if you click on this case,
https://www.ein.org.uk/members/case/lr-male-vots-albania-cg-2026-ukut-00315-iac
and click “Show Cases that Cite this Case”, you will see a decision from 26th August referencing this judgment and an unreported case from 13th August, also citing the case.
This feature is updated as new Case Law is added to the site, so there may well be other cases showing by the time you read this blog.
In addition to this, our Case Law section is now searchable by the number of citations a case has had, i.e., the number of other cases that have cited that case as relevant jurisprudence.
When you are searching for Case Law here:
https://www.ein.org.uk/search_cl
there is a new option in the “Sort results by” box at the bottom - “Most cited”. Click this option and the main list appears in order of most cited cases.
Obviously Supreme Court and HoL cases will tend to have the highest number of citations but, to make the tool really useful, we show you the date that the case was most recently sited AND an average of all the dates that citations were made. This is a very quick way to pick the most recently relevant items from your search and will, I’m sure, be a powerful tool for practitioners.
A deeper structural change, which many of you may have missed has happened around our EIN Resources section, for members who are signed into the site.
This is now labelled “Rules & Guidance” and has the Immigration Rules (with added links to previous versions on the National Archives) and a heavily updated resource of Home Office caseworker guidance.
Where available, we provide an accessible HTML version of each guidance document. Where an accessible version is not available, we provide a plain-text version together with a link to the original PDF on GOV.UK.
This caseworker guidance resource is fully searchable and, for your peace of mind, is checked in real time when you click on a link to any specific piece of guidance. For example, if you click here:
then scroll down, you will see the date and time that the data was retrieved from GOV.UK, direct links to the original resource and, crucially a clear green button to tell you that, at the moment that you clicked the link, the information displayed is verified as current by GOV.UK. Where an accessible HTML version of the guidance is available, this is fetched directly from GOV.UK in real time; where we provide a PDF copy, the data is checked against GOV.UK in real time. Where appropriate, there will also be links to previous versions of the guidance on the National Archives for anyone dealing with historical cases, etc. who needs to know the guidance that was in force at the time they are working with.
I hope you will agree that this is a useful and time-saving resource; please do explore it for yourselves.
You can still find practice directions/statements from the Tribunal and UNHCR guidance/guidelines as before.
We have some other plans and improvements in the works; it won’t be a surprise to any practitioner that the Best Practice Guide is due for revision in the light of the many changes in Immigration Law in recent times. Those changes make the new guide both a mammoth task and, unfortunately, something of a moving target. Rest assured, though, that this work is underway and that we will be launching a brand new BPG in the New Year.
I hope you have found this brief update useful. I wish you all a successful remaining quarter of 2026 and, as ever, if you have any queries, suggestions or comments about this blog or any other aspect of EIN, please do feel free to contact me at jonathan.bridge@ein.org.uk.