Why children should be barred from cells – Legal Voice
‘Shauneen Lambe explains why Just for Kids Law is calling for urgent reform in the way arrested children are treated.’
Legal Voice, 26th July 2016
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
Category: detention
Migrant children are being failed by UK, says Lords committee report – The Guardian
‘The UK is shirking its responsibility to care for thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, dismissing them as “somebody else’s problem”, a report has concluded.’
The Guardian, 26th July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Government accused of scrapping pledge to end child detention in prison-style immigration removal centres – The Independent
‘The Government has been accused of quietly ditching its policy of ending child detention in prison-style immigration centres after it announced the closure of new flagship accommodation for families being removed from the UK.’
The Independent, 22nd July 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Teenager sues after repeatedly being held overnight in police cell – The Guardian
‘Test case against Met police and Islington council brought on behalf of 14-year-old boy by Just for Kids Law, which says cells are not fit places for children.’
The Guardian, 21st July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Yarl’s Wood detention centre staff replaced by ‘self-service kiosks’ – The Guardian
‘Staff are being replaced by “self-service kiosks” at the troubled Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre as the main way of driving through a £42m cut in the costs of a new Home Office contract to run the centre, it has been disclosed.’
The Guardian, 7th July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Battle to stop Jack Straw facing Libya rendition charges – The Guardian
‘The government has spent at least £600,000 of taxpayers’ money trying to prevent a civil case being brought against it by a husband and wife who allege that British intelligence was complicit in their detention, rendition and torture.’
The Guardian, 26th June 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Home Office loses test case on asylum seekers ‘who look 18 or older’ – The Guardian
‘A test case judgment has been handed down in the high court preventing the Home Office from detaining child asylum seekers just because officials think they look 18 or older.’
The Guardian, 20th June 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Keeping up to date with inquest law in a clinical context: can a medical patient be treated as “detained by the state”? – Cloisters
‘Those regularly instructed to represent families at inquests will no doubt already be familiar with the valuable resource that is the Chief Coroner and his website, as well as the extremely useful sites of membership organizations like Inquest and AvMA. If it’s been a little while since your last instructions, and lack of funding makes an open source particularly attractive.’
Cloisters, 6th June 2016
Source: www.cloisters.com
Families separated for immigration purposes – UK Human Rights Blog
‘Last year 32,446 people subject to immigration control in the UK were detained by the government. Some had entered the country irregularly and were quickly removed. Others were detained pending removal or deportation. More than half of them were released back into the community, meaning that their detention had served no purpose.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th June 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Home Office refuses to reveal whether women in Yarl’s Wood have been raped in case it ‘damages the commercial interests’ of companies – The Independent
‘Last year, the chief prisons inspector called Yarl’s Wood ‘a place of national concern’ following concerns over alleged sexual abuse and intimidation of women detained there.’
The Independent, 13th June 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
EU Court rules no jail for illegal migrants – BBC News
‘Non-EU migrants illegally entering an EU state in the Schengen zone should not face detention on those grounds, says the European Court of Justice.’
BBC News, 7th June 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
IPCC criticises Sussex police over hooding of disabled 11-year-old girl – The Guardian
‘Sussex police have been strongly criticised by the force watchdog after an 11-year-old disabled girl was hooded, handcuffed and detained in custody for a total of more than 60 hours.’
The Guardian, 8th June 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
High Court strikes down unfair decision in DFT of vulnerable victim of torture – Free Movement
‘In the first judgment of its kind since the suspension of the Detained Fast Track on 2 July 2015, the High Court struck down the Home Secretary’s refusal and certification of an asylum claim which was made in the structurally unfair and unjust Detained Fast Track (DFT) and ordered the Home Secretary to remake the decision afresh without regard to material obtained in the unfair process. The case is R (on the application of Zafar) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWHC 1217 (Admin).’
Free Movement, 25th May 2016
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
Logan Peters killed himself following police custody – BBC News
‘A series of police failures caused a man to kill himself a day after being released from custody, an inquest found.’
BBC News, 27th May 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Serial killer Joanna Dennehy loses claim her human rights are being violated – The Independent
‘Serial killer Joanna Dennehy has lost her High Court claim that she is entitled to damages for human rights violations after being placed in solitary confinement in jail.’
The Independent, 26th May 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Independent Monitoring Board slams Heathrow Immigration Removal Centres – Free Movement
‘What were Harmondsworth and Colnbrook Detention Centres have been brought under the same management, and are now called Heathrow Immigration Removal Centres. Nonetheless, as the Independent Monitoring Board’s report shows, detention centres by another name still have their same old problems. The Board’s recommendations focus on treatment of vulnerable people, both mentally and physically.’
Free Movement, 23rd May 2016
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
Teenage girls given 12 months youth detention over Facebook baby kidnap plot – The Independent
‘Two teenage girls have been sentenced to 12 months youth detention for conspiracy to kidnap babies in September last year.’
The Independent, 21st May 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Mau Mau lawsuit due to begin at high court – The Guardian
‘Compensation claims for torture, rape, wrongful detention and forced labour brought by 40,000 Kenyans who allege they were mistreated by British officials during the Mau Mau insurgency are due to be heard in the high court in London on Monday.’
The Guardian, 22nd May 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man found guilty of manslaughter for road rage stabbing of solicitor – The Guardian
‘The family of a retired solicitor stabbed to death by a man with known mental health problems following a minor car accident has criticised the NHS for failings that left him free to kill.’
The Guardian, 16th May 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Paranoid schizophrenic man who pushed passenger onto Tube tracks sent to mental health hospital ‘indefinitely’ – The Independent
‘A mentally ill man who caused horrific injuries to a fellow passenger after pushing him under the Tube has been detained indefinitely.’
The Independent, 16th May 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
