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New report examines the problems of the use of detention for immigration purposes

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Date of publication

10 October 2014

Summary

Detention Action releases in-depth report which seeks to understand the key problems of the detention system

The UK in the European Convention: fudge, or a shining example?

Blog post

Date of publication

09 October 2014

Written by

Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog

Detention Action's appeal to suspend the Detained Fast Track system is dismissed by Court of Appeal

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Date of publication

09 October 2014

Summary

Following earlier High Court judgment, Court of Appeal refuses to suspend the Detained Fast Track (DFT) system for asylum applicants

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford baffled by Government's hostile student visa system

Latest news

Date of publication

08 October 2014

Summary

Professor Andrew Hamilton asks why Government policy is limiting one of the UK's most effective generators of overseas revenue

Home Office to share immigration data with Ireland under new Memorandum of Understanding

Latest news

Date of publication

07 October 2014

Summary

UK and Ireland to exchange immigration information and new British-Irish Visa Scheme to allow visitors to travel to both countries on a single visa

Conservatives' British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities will break formal link between British courts and ECtHR

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Date of publication

03 October 2014

Summary

Conservative Party announces proposals to repeal Human Rights Act and end pre-eminence of ECtHR judgments

Ban Ki-moon: Never before in UN history have we had so many refugees and asylum-seekers

Latest news

Date of publication

02 October 2014

Summary

UN Secretary-General says a multitude of global crises has caused a record level of displacement and calls on the international community to respond

IOM, Amnesty International document the perils and growing death toll of irregular migration

Latest news

Date of publication

30 September 2014

Summary

New reports by the International Organization for Migration and Amnesty International examine the fatal journeys undertaken by migrants and refugees

New Tribunal Procedure Rules for the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) announced

Latest news

Date of publication

29 September 2014

Summary

The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Procedure) Rules 2005 to be replaced as new Rules, published today, come into force on October 20th

UNHCR: Asylum claims in industrialised countries up 24 per cent in the first half of 2014

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Date of publication

29 September 2014

Summary

UNHCR releases latest Asylum Trends report for first six months of 2014, claims up overall but steady in the UK

EIN 16th AGM to be held on October 24th in London

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Date of publication

24 September 2014

Summary

Notice of EIN's next AGM at Garden Court Chambers, London on Friday, October 24th at 5.30pm

Yvette Cooper says Labour would scrap net migration target, Miliband forgets section of speech on immigration

Latest news

Date of publication

24 September 2014

Summary

Shadow Home Secretary says net migration target has completely distorted Government immigration policy and Labour would scrap it

UK and France agree to joint measures to tackle migrants seeking to cross the Channel from Calais

Latest news

Date of publication

22 September 2014

Summary

Britain to contribute £12m to improve security at Calais to reduce irregular migration

UNHCR, IOM raise alarm over the growing numbers of migrants dying in the Mediterranean

Latest news

Date of publication

17 September 2014

Summary

IOM's Director General says the numbers dying off Europe's coasts are shocking and unacceptable, UNHCR calls it an escalating crisis

UKSC Blog interviews Lord Neuberger

Blog post

Date of publication

16 September 2014

Written by

UK Supreme Court Blog