UK: Court finds detention of asylum seekers to be unlawful, opening the way for damages claims
The UK Court of Appeal has found that detention of five asylum seekers, pending removal to other European countries under the Dublin Regulation, was unlawful and could give rise to a claim for damages. The case concerned the detention, in 2015, of five foreign...
UK: Non-violent activists face life sentences for ‘terrorist offences’
In March 2017, 15 activists locked themselves together around an immigration removal charter flight that was preparing to deport undocumented migrants from Stansted airport to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. The action by the members of the campaign group End...
UK Home Office to offer leave to Calais children, but critics warn move is ‘arbitrary and unfair’
Minister for immigration, Caroline Nokes, announced on Thursday that the Home Office is to offer children who were brought to the UK when the ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais was demolished, an exceptional form of “Calais leave”. This leave which will included the right to...