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 […]
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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 […]
UK Border Agency plans to reduce the number of immigrants who can apply for permanent residence 15 June 2011 The British Government has announced a number of proposals aimed at cutting the ties between many immigration routes and eventual settlement known as indefinite leave to remain in the UK. The UK Border Agency says that […]
Judicial Review is an essential process of Administrative Law. Judicial Review is where an applicant (or Claimant) asks the Administrative Court (a division of the High Court) to rule on the legality or reasonableness of a decision by a public body. Judicial Review is a distinctive feature of English law and rarely seen in other […]
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Asylum Legacy Policy Update
UK Border Agency struggles to deal with asylum application backlog The Home Affairs Select Committee has published a new report on the work of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), pointing to the way how the agency deals with the backlog of approximately 450,000 unresolved asylum applications which was build up during 1990s and 2000s. The […]
