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Home Office faces backlash over immigration detention
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Office has been widely criticised by various groups over immigration detention without time limits. The department has, for a long time, refused to introduce a specific time limit for immigration detention....

 The government has rejected calls and proposals to end the indefinite incarceration of UK immigrants. It argues that it would severely constrain efforts aimed at ensuring effective control of...

Varying Immigration Bail Conditions
By Richmond Chambers -

This guide is primarily for persons who have been granted immigration bail and are interested in applying to vary their immigration bail conditions. If, rather than seeking a variation of immigration bail conditions,...

 you are interested in making an application for immigration bail, please see A Short Guide to Applying for Immigration Bail. What are immigration bail conditions? When a person is granted immigration...

A Short Guide To Applying For Immigration Bail
By Richmond Chambers -

New immigration detention powers came into force on 15 January 2018, primarily contained in Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016. The new framework provides for a single power to grant immigration bail, available...

 to both the Secretary of State and the First Tier Tribunal. The newly published Guidance, which also replaces all previous guidance on temporary admission, temporary release on immigration bail and...

Deportation - Part 3: Detention
By Richmond Chambers -

In the first entry in this series of blogs, we clarified what deportation is, how deportation procedures can be engaged, and what the Secretary of State (via the Home Office) can do to enforce their decision...

 to deport an individual. In the second, the avenues of challenging such a decision were examined. In this third entry, we will take a look at perhaps the most controversial aspect of deportation law in England...

Home Office 'reckless' with detainment
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Affairs Select Committee have released a highly critical report into the detention of immigrants as managed by the Home Office. They state that the government department has a ‘reckless’ attitude...

 towards the detainment of immigrants and that this has led to people being wrongfully detained. The report found that there are issues with almost every part of the detention process and that the Home...

How UK immigration detention compares to other countries
By Richmond Chambers -

A recent news story in The Guardian highlighted just how UK immigration detention compares to detention in Europe and elsewhere in the world. It may be surprising to learn the UK is the only EU member...

 state not to place limits on the amount of time people can be kept in detention. The UK’s immigration detention system is one of the largest in Europe, although countries like Australia and the United States...

Deportation - Part 2: Appeals and Judicial Review
By Richmond Chambers -

In the first entry in this series of blogs, we clarified what deportation is, how deportation procedures can be engaged, and what the Secretary of State (via the Home Office) can do to enforce their decision to...

 deport an individual. In this entry, we will be taking a closer look at what that individual (of EEA or non-EEA origin) can do to challenge such a decision. Deportation – Pre-Appeal It is important to...

Deportation - Part 1: An Overview
By Richmond Chambers -

In ensuring the myriad of laws, rules and policies that make up the UK’s immigration system have bite, the Secretary of State is afforded the power to remove foreign nationals to their countries of origin....

 One method of removal used is known as deportation. What is Deportation? Contrary to popular belief, deportation does not refer to any situation in which a foreign national is required to leave the UK....

Red Cross calls for end to indefinite detention in UK immigration system
By Richmond Chambers -

The British Red Cross has become the first major charity to call for an overhaul of the UK immigration detention system, with proposed policy changes including a 28 day maximum detention time for migrants and asylum...

 seekers. Figures obtained by the charity via freedom of information requests showed that of the asylum seekers who were released from detention in 2016 – some 14,733 people – a shocking 42% had been...

BMA report on health-related human rights of detained individuals
By Alexandra Pease - Barrister Partner

British Medical Association: Locked up, locked out: health and human rights in immigration detention, a recently published report “explores the role of doctors in protecting and promoting the...

 health-related human rights of detained individuals”.  You can download a copy to read from the BMA website.   The aim of the report is to provide guidance for Doctors and practitioners working in immigration removal...

Immigration Bail at the First-tier Tribunal
By Richmond Chambers -

A person may be detained under immigration powers if they are liable to removal or deportation. Home Office policy is to use detention as a last resort, yet 24,333 people were detained under immigration powers...

 in the year to March 2019.  This article focuses on immigration bail applications made to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum Chamber). Immigration bail procedure Once an immigration bail...

Deportation Update
By Alexis Slatter - Immigration Barrister

In NA (Pakistan) v SSHD [2016] EWCA Civ 662, the Court of Appeal corrected the obvious drafting error in section 117C(3) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (as amended by the Immigration Act 2014),...

 and ruled that foreign criminal ‘medium offenders’ (those with sentences of between one and four years’ imprisonment) have the same fall back protection as ‘serious offenders’ (those sentenced...
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