“The implications of the tougher-sounding rhetoric of the immigration minister, Phil Woolas, started to become clear yesterday when he disclosed he is to block appeals to high court judges from failed asylum seekers facing deportation.”
The Guardian, 21st November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Immigration minister Phil Woolas faced a scathing attack from leading lawyers after suggesting those representing asylum seekers were ‘playing the system’.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Immigration minister Phil Woolas has attacked lawyers and charities working on behalf of asylum seekers, accusing them of undermining the law and ‘playing the system’. In an interview with the Guardian, Woolas described the legal professionals and NGO workers as ‘an industry’, and said most asylum seekers were not fleeing persecution but were economic migrants.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Helow v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Another
House of Lords
“A judge’s membership of a Jewish association whose magazine had expressed partisan views against Palestinian causes did not in itself imply that the judge shared or endorsed such views so as to have raised the possibility of bias and want of impartiality when determining an immigration appeal by a Palestinian activist.”
The Times, 5th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Almost 80,000 asylum-seekers from countries described by the Foreign Office as dangerous and unstable have been refused refuge in Britain in the past five years.”
The Independent, 5th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Six asylum seekers are reportedly claiming £300,000 in compensation for being wrongly detained by immigration officials.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The new Immigration Minister has condemned his own Government for the way it handled migration and asylum-seekers.”
The Times, 21st October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina (Liverpool City Council) v Hillingdon London Borough Council
Queen’s Bench Division
“An asylum-seeker who turned out to be a child in need had to be looked after by the first local authority where he lived when he made his application and not the second one into whose care he had been temporarily released.”
The Times, 3rd October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“Claims by hundreds of asylum-seekers that they have been beaten or abused by British guards during their detention and removal from this country are to be independently investigated for the first time, The Independent has learnt.”
The Independent, 30th September 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Changes to Britain’s asylum and immigration controls could breach human rights, a European watchdog has warned.”
BBC News, 18th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers acting for Iraqi interpreters who risked their lives working for the British military in Iraq failed yesterday to ease the tight conditions that must be met for them to be resettled in Britain.”
The Times, 11th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
TB (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“It would be wrong as a matter of principle if the Secretary of State for the Home Department could circumvent the decision of an immigration appeal tribunal by an administrative decision.”
The Times, 9th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“Incidences of self-harm in immigration detention centres rose 73 per cent in the first six months of this year, Home Office figures have revealed. The sharp increase has provoked calls for the Government to re-examine its policy of treating asylum-seekers as prisoners.”
The Independent, 31st August 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
JT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 878; [2008] WLR (D) 260
“When construing s 8(1) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004, which provided various factors that the court should take account of in assessing the credibility of an asylum seeker, the qualifying word ‘potentially’ should be read into an explanatory clause which would then read: ‘as (potentially) damaging the claimant’s credibility’.”
WLR Daily, 29th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
NA v United Kingdom (Application No. 25904/07)
European Court of Human Rights
” The level of risk of ill-treatment in returning failed asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka was indicated by the fact that since 2007 the European Court of Human Rights has granted interim measures preventing the return of 342 Tamil applicants from the United Kingdom.”
The Times, 28th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Three asylum seekers’ claims from the the Outsourcing Abuse report, which documents almost 300 allegations of assault.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Outsourcing Abuse (PDF)
“The threat of deportation has been lifted from more than 10,000 Zimbabwean asylum-seekers while Robert Mugabe remains in power.”
The Independent, 11th July 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain should stop detaining thousands of children of foreigners seeking asylum, the Independent Asylum Commission said in a report published on Thursday.”
Reuters, 10th July 2008
Source: www.reuters.com
“Attempts by Gordon Brown to use a meeting of G8 leaders this week to campaign for tougher action against Zimbabwe are in danger of being undermined by claims that Britain is forcing as many as 11,000 Zimbabweans seeking refuge here to make a stark choice between destitution or returning home to possible torture or death. Letters obtained by The Observer show that the Home Office continues to order failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers to return home in the face of mounting violence.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The ban on deporting asylum-seekers back to Darfur has been lifted by the Government despite warnings of widespread murder and torture of dissidents in the Sudanese region.”
The Independent, 7th July 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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