IAS closes leaving thousands of migrants and asylum seekers without legal advice The Immigration Advisory Service (IAS), the largest provider of state-funded legal advice on immigration and asylum in the UK, announced this week that it had been placed into administration. The charity, which has existed for 35 years and employs 300 people in 14 […]
Author: Cyrus Mansouri
Judicial Review to the High Court on Immigration Matters In situations where an application made to the UK Border Agency has been refused without a right of appeal or where all avenues of appeal have been exhausted, often the only option available to challenge that decision of the Secretary of State is by way of […]
Disqualification from driving Here you will find a copy of the relevant law, relating to driving disqualification, with the relevant section numbers: 34. Disqualification for certain offences (1) Where a person is convicted of an offence involving obligatory disqualification, the court must order him to be disqualified for such period not less than twelve months […]
Secret race discrimination by the UKBA against Pakistan nationals Section 29 of the Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination by public authorities. Schedule 3, paragraph 17 of the Act allows for the Minister to personally authorise discrimination ‘with respect to a particular case or class of case’. This is, in effect, a law which permits the […]
Community orders, sometimes referred to as community sentences, are imposed in criminal proceedings throughout England & Wales and they allow judges or magistrates to tailor a sentence to meet the needs or circumstances of the offender. The intention is that the sentence is served in the community under the supervision of the Probation Service and is intended as a […]
