Category Archives: Legal News
Torture survivors win asylum seeker detention ruling

Survivors of torture have won a legal challenge against Home Office rules on asylum seeker detention in the UK. Survivors…

Thoughts on Child Refugees in the UK

This is a link to some thoughts about the University of Kent’s recent conference on the challenges of immigration law, written by…

Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention in the UK

The European Network on Statelessness has produced a document outlining current problems and recommending responses.  It is available as a PDF…

European Convention on Human Rights ‘advisory only’?

Francis Webber has recently published this discussion of recent government decisions in relation to international law.

Mary Bosworth on Immigration Detention Reports

 Mary Bosworth has written an overview of  two reports released on 14 January into immigration detention in Britain. The first, written…

Free on Bail; Facing Trial

Abdul Haroun, the man who walked the Channel Tunnel, was granted asylum under the 1951 Refugee Convention on 24 December last…

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