UK: Pre-Removal Detention of Asylum Seekers Confirmed Unlawful

UK: Pre-Removal Detention of Asylum Seekers Confirmed Unlawful

On 27 November the Supreme Court unanimously rejected an appeal by the UK Home Office to overturn a landmark ruling from the the Court of Appeal declaring the detention of asylum seekers while their cases were being assessed in the Dublin Procedure unlawful. The case...
UK: Report Catalogues Fifteen Years of Home Office Failures

UK: Report Catalogues Fifteen Years of Home Office Failures

A new report entitled “Lessons not Learned: the failures of asylum decision-making in the UK” compiles findings from over 50 publications issued over the last fifteen years on the quality of decision-making processes in the UK Home Office. Responding to the upcoming...

UK: Interim Guidance on Age Assessment Following Latest Judgment*

The Home Office has issued interim guidance on age assessment of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, following a successful challenge of its policy in the case of BF (Eritrea) before the Court of Appeal. In its ruling of 23 May 2019, the Court of Appeal held that...