UPPER TRIBUNAL (IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM CHAMBER) – THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE – QUEEN^S BENCH DIVISION ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
R is a national of the DRC, born in 1985. He arrived in the United Kingdom in November 2010 and applied for as Read more...
Unlawful detention – Court of Appeal – detention under the Immigration Acts
This is the judgment in relation to the detention of a foreign national criminal. The Court of Appeal held that the Home Secretary acted unlawful in detainin Read more...
Contempt of Court – Not in the face of the Court- alleged breach of order – legal aid
The Court, having considered the lack of guidance available on the issue of legal aid which must be available in a civil contempt matter, gave guid Read more...
England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court) - Efenure, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 3072 (Admin)
Duncan Lewis’ case of Ejovi Lawrence Efenure was handed down on 16 Oc Read more...
Immigration/Public Law – Administrative Court – Acted for Claimant - Dublin II Regulation – Claimant resisting removal to the Netherlands – Art 3(2) Discretion – Excellent Review of Refoulement. Dismissed. Read more...
England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Decisions >> SQ (Pakistan) & Anor, R (on the application of) v The Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber & Anor [2013] EWCA Civ 1251 (22 October 2013)
The landma Read more...
Immigration Law – IAC, Upper Tribunal: British Nationality – Appeal against Decision to Deprive Person of British Citizenship
Upper Tribunal, IAC Held: An appeal under section 40A of the British Nationality Act 1981 again Read more...
Immigration – Fresh Claim Judicial Review - Field House Upper Tribunal IAC – Challenging the respondent’s decisions to refuse to treat the applicant’s submissions as a fresh claim as Wednesbury unreasonable – Dismissed
The Read more...
Family & Child Care Law – Court of Appeal (Civil Division) – Final Care Order – Welfare Balancing Exercise
Second appeal against decision to make final care order placing a child into long term foster care. Detailed examin Read more...
Administrative Court – Pro Bono – Application for Permission to apply for Judicial Review - Public Funding Refusal – Court of Protection
Case involved an application for permission to apply for judicial review of a final Read more...
Immigration Law – High Court (Administrative Court) – Adequate Reception Facilities – Kabul, Afghanistan
The claimant, aged 20, was a national of Afghanistan who was a failed asylum seeker but granted discretionary leave t Read more...
“…The Upper Tribunal’s new Country Guidance case, GJ, NT and MP (post-civil war: returnees) Sri Lanka [2013] UKUT 319 (IAC), was promulgated on the 5th July 2013. Duncan Lewis represented the Interested Party, Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), in the p Read more...
Immigration Law - High Court (Administrative Court) - Legal Aid Agency Funding – Successful challenges to scope
For the purpose of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, it Read more...
Immigration Law – High Court (Administrative Court) – Detained Asylum Fast Track Process
Legality of the processing by the Secretary of State of asylum claims under the Fast Track procedures in the circumstances where the Read more...
Immigration Law – High Court (Administrative Court) – Mental Health Article 3 Considerations – Third Party
Sri Lankan Tamil refugee with a right of residence in the UK, seeks to prevent the Defendant removing her brother Read more...
Immigration Law – High Court (Administrative Court) – Mental Health Article 3 Considerations – Third Party
Sri Lankan Tamil refugee with a right of residence in the UK, seeks to prevent the Defendant removing her brother t Read more...
Family Law - High Court (Administrative Court) - Legal Aid Agency Funding – Successful challenges to funding decision
A successful judicial review of the Legal Aid Agency’s decision to refuse to pay the full costs of a par Read more...
Public Law / Regulatory – High Court (Administrative Court) – Challenging decision of the Architects Registration Board
Challenge to a decision of the Architects Registration Board under s.22(1) of the Architects Act 1997 Read more...
Immigration Law – High Court (Administrative Law) – Challenge against Third Country decision to remove to Cyprus – Matter Stayed pending EM (Eritrea)
An application for judicial review challenging the defendant^s decision Read more...
Article 11 Reception directive - Damages for breach of European Directive – Causation – Article 8 ECHR
The Court of Appeal rejected the Appellant Negassi’s claim for damages based upon the admitted though unintentional bre Read more...
Immigration Law - Court of Appeal (Civil Division) on appeal from the Upper Tribunal – Foreign National Prisoner – Deportation – Article 8 ECHR Read more...
Held that there was no proof of a systemic deficiency in asylum procedures in Malta nor was there evidence that failed asylum seekers would be detained on their return there. No obligations were owed regarding failed asylum seekers to permit them to Read more...
Solicitors, Kat Hacker & James Packer deliver Duncan Lewis’ first full judgement in European Court of Human Rights as it tackles the issue of Dis Read more...
Immigration – Human Rights – Article 3 ECHR – Afghanistan – Disabled Asylum Seekers
Solicitors, Kat Hacker & James Packer deliver Duncan Lewis’ first full judgement in European Court of Human Rights as it tackles the issue of Disabled Person Read more...
Immigration/Public Law Detention – Administrative Court – Acted for Claimant - Challenge to lawfulness of Claimant’s detention pending Deportation – Art. 5 ECHR – Good review of Hardial Singh Principles – Automatic Deportation – Failure to Grant Bail Read more...
Family Law & Child Care Law – Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Application for permission to appeal against a return order to Cyprus under the Hague Convention Child Abduction Convention 1988 where it was argued by the mother that undertakin Read more...