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Kigen & Anor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 1286 (11 December 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) - On Appeal from the Upper Tribunal -(Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
This is an appeal against the order of Upper Tribunal Judge Freeman dated 12th February 2015 dismissing the appellants^ applicat Read more...
DM (Zimbabwe) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 1288 (11 December 2015) (11 December 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) - On Appeal from the Upper Tribunal - Immigration & Asylum Chamber
This is an appeal by a foreign criminal against a deportation decision. The main issue in this appeal is whether certain statements Read more...
KP, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (IJR) [2016] UKUT 27 (IAC) (10 December 2015)
Upper Tribunal - Immigration & Asylum Chamber
The applicant challenges the respondent^s decision of 28 May 2015 not to treat his further submissions as amounting to a ^fresh claim^ under para 353 of the Immigration Rules ( Statement o Read more...
TY (Sri Lanka) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 1233 (1 December 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division)- On Appeal from the Upper Tribunal(Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
This is an appeal against a decision of the Upper Tribunal that (i) the appellant has no derivative right to remain in the Unit Read more...
AT v SS (No 2) [2015] EWHC 3328 (Fam) (18 November 2015)
In the High Court of Justice - Family Division
On 29 September 2015 I made a return order pursuant to Art 12 of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (hereafter ^the Convention^) in respect of a ch Read more...
Hysa & Ors, R.( On the Application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 1195 (12 November 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) - On Appeal from the High Court of Justice - Queen^s Bench Division - Administrative Court
This is an appeal from the judgment of Ouseley J in which he decided that each of the three appellants, Read more...
Sehwerert, R (on the application of) v Entry Clearance Officer & Ors [2015] EWCA Civ 1141 (10 November 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) - On Appeal from the Upper Tribunal - Immigration and Asylum Chamber
Case reported in the Morning Star Newspaper
The appellant is one of five Cuban nationals, known as the "Cub Read more...
Calder, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWCA Civ 1050 (15 October 2015)
In this appeal, the claimant appeals against the judgment of HH Judge Gore QC, sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court in the Administrative Court in Manchester, dismissing his challenge by way of judicial review of the lawfulness of his recall t Read more...
Gohil v Gohil [2015] UKSC 61 (14 October 2015)
Mrs Gohil appeals against an order of the Court of Appeal dated 13 March 2014. By a judgment delivered by McFarlane LJ, with which Arden and Pitchford LJJ agreed, the Court of Appeal then explained its decision to set aside an order made by Moylan J Read more...
AT v SS [2015] EWHC 2703 (Fam) (29 September 2015)
In the High Court of Justice - Family Division
In this case I am concerned with a little boy called S. S is now aged 5 years old. This is an application by S^s father, AT for the summary return of S to Holland pursuant to the provisio Read more...
Bakhtiyar, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Costs on AoS) (IJR) [2015] UKUT 519 (IAC) (9 September 2015)
In the Upper Tribunal - Immigration and Asylum Chamber
The applicant, a national of Azerbaijan, came to the United Kingdom on 13 October 2013. Although he had a visit visa (valid for only a short time thereafter) he was refused entry Read more...
Sood, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 831 (28 July 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) - On the Appeal from the High Court of Justice, Queen^s Bench Division Administrative Court
The sole issue in this appeal concerns the circumstances when, notwithstanding a person^s right to an Read more...
Hancock, Re [2015] EWHC 2324 (Fam) (22 July 2015)
In the High Court of Justice - Family Division
The background, which is uncontroversial, is that on 20 August 2013 His Honour Judge Newton, as he then was, sitting at Ipswich County Court, as it then was, made final care and placement Read more...
A-S (Children) [2015] EWCA Civ 748 (17 July 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) - On Appeal from the Family Court at Bristol - His Honour Judge Marston
This is an appeal, pursuant to permission given on 2 January 2015 by Lewison LJ, from a judgment and order of His Honour J Read more...
Sanjari, R (on the application of) v The Crown Court at Birmingham [2015] EWHC 2037 (Admin) (15 July 2015)
In the High Court of Justice - Queen’s Bench Division - Divisional Court
This renewed application for permission to bring judicial review raises important issues regarding applications to judges of the Crown Court to transfer represen Read more...
R (A Child), R v [2015] EWCA Civ 674 [2015] EWCA Civ 674, [2015] WLR(D) 295 (2 July 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) - On Appeal from the High Court - Family Division
At a hearing in January 2015 Mr Justice Hayden was required to determine whether or not the Family Court in England and Wales had jurisdiction t Read more...
Sino, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Rev 2) [2015] EWHC 1831 (Admin) (25 June 2015)
In the High Court of Justice- Queen’s bench Division- Administrative Court
The essence of this claim is that the Claimant has been unlawfully detained for specific periods, illustrated in the chronology below, and that he remains at p Read more...
Bhatt, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 1724 (Admin) (18 June 2015)
In the High Court of Justice - Queen^s Bench Division - Administrative Court
The Claimants in this case are a brother and sister who are Indian nationals, who came to this country lawfully on student visas, which were later extended f Read more...
Newcastle City Council v WM & Ors [2015] EWFC 42 (08 May 2015) [2015] EWFC 42 (8 May 2015)
In the Family Court - Sitting at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
At the heart of this dispute lies the future of three young children, aged 6, 4 and 3, whose young mother has learning disabilities, and is acknowledged by the Official Solicitor, h Read more...
AB and Others (internet activity – state of evidence) [2015] UKUT 257 (IAC) (30 April 2015)
The appellants in this case are citizens of Iran. In very broad terms they each claim they are refugees because of their “blogging” activity on the internet. The word “blogging” will be readily understood by a contemporary reader but for the avoidanc Read more...
MS, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 1095 (Admin) (22 April 2015)
In the High Court of Justice - Queen’s Bench Division- Administrative Court
These are three claims for judicial review of decisions of the Defendant, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, rejecting the claim of each Claimant Read more...
RB (Sri Lanka), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 813 (Admin) (31 March 2015)
In the High Court of Justice - Queen’s Bench Division - Administrative Court
The Claimant, RB, challenges the Defendant^s decisions to:
(i) refuse to treat his further submissions as amounting to a fresh claim for the purpose Read more...
SR (A Child : habitual residence) (Rev 4) [2015] EWHC 742 (Fam) (19 March 2015)
In the High Court of Justice - Family Division
SR has recently started full time education here in the UK and has been in foster care since October 2013. Initially that placement was under the aegis of a Police Protection Order, subse Read more...
ZA (Iraq), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 168 (3 March 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) - On Appeal from the High Court of Justice - Queen’s Bench Division
This is an appeal against the Order dated 2nd December 2013 of Mr. C M G Ockleton, sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court Read more...
SB and ABD, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (IJR) (Rev 1) [2015] UKUT 136 (IAC) (3 March 2015)
Upper Tribunal- Immigration & Asylum Chamber
The first Applicant, born 6 February 1994, is the mother of the second Applicant, born 30 May 2011. I refer to the first Applicant as ‘the Applicant’ herein. The Applicant entered the Unite Read more...
PG (USA) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 118 (26 February 2015)
In the Court of Appeal- Civil Division- On Appeal from Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Tribunal - Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Tribunal)
The appellant, Phyllis Gain, is a 76-year-old national of the United States of Am Read more...
The Queen (on the application of AI) -and- Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 244 (Admin) (9 February 2015)
The claimant claims to be a non-Arab Darfuri (of Tunjur ethnic origin) national of Sudan. He travelled to the United Kingdom via France where he claimed asylum. His asylum claim was refused. He arrived in the United Kingdom in 2012 and claimed asylum Read more...
The Queen on Application of ZA (Iraq) -and- The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 168 (5 February 2015)
In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) - On Appeal From the High Court of Justice -Queen’s Bench Division
ZA asserted that his prolonged detention under immigration powers on the basis that he would be returned to Iraq was unlawful, Read more...
Idris, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department (IJR) [2015] UKUT 95 (IAC) (4 February 2015)
In the Upper Tribunal - Immigration and Asylum Chamber
This is an application for judicial review of the decision of the Secretary of State for the Home Department (‘SSHD’) to refuse the Applicant’s application for leave to remain in Read more...
The Queen on Application of Zargul Safi -and- Secretary of State for the Home Department[2015] EWHC 95 (22 January 2015)
In the High Court of Justice- Queen’s Bench Division- Administrative Court
The Claimant seeks to quash the decisions of the Secretary of State for the Home Department dated 22 May 2012 and 6 February 2014 refusing the Claimant leave t Read more...
THE QUEEN (on the application of KHADRA AHMED ALI) - and -THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT [2015] EWHC 7 (Admin) (16 January 2015)
High Court of Justice- Queen^s Bench Division- Administrative Court
The Claimant who was born in Somalia on 26 October 1972 and entered the United Kingdom on 2 September 2001 lives with her husband who is a British Citizen and with he Read more...