“The Home Office’s ‘go home’ poster vans targeting illegal immigrants have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for quoting misleading arrest statistics.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“As previously announced a number of changes to the Immigration Rules come into effect today, Tuesday 1 October 2013.”
UK Border Agency, 30th September 2013
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Home Secretary said she would end ‘abuse’ of article 8, which protects right to family life.”
The Independent, 30th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Liz Davies, writing in the Morning Star on Saturday 14 September, delivers a grim warning about the future of legal aid.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 17th September 2013
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“A former detainee at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre has alleged that women held there have been subjected to unwanted sexual advances and abuse by security guards and other officials.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“People who have served prison terms are being kept behind bars while they wait to be deported, government data shows.”
The Independent, 15th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular breakfast cereal variety box of human rights news and views. The full list of links can be found here. You can find previous roundups here. Post by Sarina Kidd, edited and links compiled by Adam Wagner.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th September 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“There is much current debate over judicial review, prompted in large part by successive government consultation papers. This note provides an overview of recent developments concerning immigration judicial reviews, which have, for many years, provided the bulk of all judicial review claims.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 12th September 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“Today, Friday 6 September 2013, a written ministerial statement was laid in Parliament outlining a number of changes to the Immigration Rules.”
UK Border Agency, 6th September 2013
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A violent foreign criminal who burned a woman’s face with melted plastic and scalded her with boiling water has defeated a bid to deport him from Britain because of his human rights, the Telegraph can disclose.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“UK citizens must earn more than £18,600 to bring a non-EU spouse into the country.”
The Independent, 8th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Secretary of State was entitled to use the new certification provisions in sections 2C of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997, as inserted by section 15 of the Justice and Security Act 2013, to terminate existing judicial review proceedings in which she was herself a party.”
WLR Daily, 9th August 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“More than 300 foreign criminals escaped deportation last year after they argued it would breach their human rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In a judgment with implications for the detention of David Miranda, the High Court has today dismissed an appeal against a conviction for wilfully failing to comply with a duty imposed by virtue of Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th August 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Three high court judges have said there is room for improvement in the operation of counter-terror powers used by police special branch officers to stop, question and detain 70,000 people a year passing through Britain’s airports and ports.”
The Guardian, 28th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s anti-terror laws watchdog is to investigate whether laws were used “lawfully, appropriately and humanely” when police detained David Miranda at Heathrow airport for nine hours.”
The Guardian, 22nd August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Home Secretary Theresa May has defended the police’s use of anti-terror laws to hold and question David Miranda, the partner of a Guardian journalist.”
BBC News, 21st August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers representing a Brazilian man detained at Heathrow airport have begun judicial review proceedings against the Home Office and the police.”
BBC News, 22nd August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The home secretary has confirmed that she was given advanced notice of the decision by the police to detain David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, at Heathrow airport.”
The Guardian, 20th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“David Miranda will prepare a legal challenge over his detention at Heathrow Airport under terror legislation, the Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has said.”
The Independent, 20th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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