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A Guide To Private Life Applications
By Alexandra Pease - Barrister Partner

July 2012 saw the introduction of the private life requirements into the Immigration Rules.  The view of the government was that the previous rules did not provide a “clear and comprehensive framework...

 for considering family life and private life”.   The key test for remaining in the UK, the period of seven years reflected the previous DP5/96 policy, under which children who had lived in the UK were not...

When Must the Seriously Ill or Dying Go Home? The Case of SL (St. Lucia)
By Richmond Chambers -

Over the years, a significant amount of case law has emerged giving guidance on removing or deporting individuals in heartbreaking circumstances from the UK; namely, when those individuals are severely ill or...

 dying, but are receiving ongoing medical treatment. In the recent case of SL (St. Lucia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 1894, identifying when removing or deporting these...

Remedy for removal following certification is to be returned
By Richmond Chambers -

In XB v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2557 (Admin) the claimant successfully challenged the Secretary of State’s certification of her fresh claim for asylum as being clearly unfounded....

 The claimant had, by this point, already been removed from the UK, such that the learned judge directed the Secretary of State to ensure that the claimant re-enter the UK so that she could attend her...

Committees raise concerns over Immigration Bill
By Richmond Chambers -

In the past couple of weeks, two separate UK Parliamentary Committees have raised concerns over the Government’s proposed Immigration Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament. Immigration Bill The...

 Bill was introduced by the Home Office in October last year, and proposes a number of major reforms to the UK’s immigration system, including: Cutting the number of decisions that can be appealed...

EU Committee seeks action for Syrian refugees
By Richmond Chambers -

The EU and its member states should guarantee Syrian refugees safe entry to the EU and access to fair asylum procedures, says a resolution approved last week by the European Parliamentary Civil Liberties Committee. It...

 calls on the EU to go on providing humanitarian aid and support and on Syria’s neighboring countries to keep their borders open. Over 2 million refugees, 76% of whom are women and children, have now...

Obstacle course in the EU for asylum seekers
By Richmond Chambers -

Recent research has highlighted that there is still a long way to go in the establishment of a fair and efficient Common European Asylum System despite more than 12 years of harmonising national asylum policies...

 and the adoption of the ‘asylum package’ in June 2013. The research, which was published by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) on asylum systems in 14 EU Member States, illustrates huge...

Judgment in Virabyan v. Armenia handed down by European Court of Human Rights
By Richmond Chambers -

In its recent judgment in the case of Virabyan v. Armenia (Application no. 40094/05), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Armenia to have breached articles 3, 6 and 14 of the European Convention on...

 Human Rights (ECHR).   Paul Richmond of Richmond Chambers, instructed by the Kurdish Human Rights Project, drafted both the initial application to the European Court and the response to the submission of...

Scottish asylum seekers left destitute
By Richmond Chambers -

Hundreds of asylum seekers in Scotland, including children and pregnant women, are being left completely destitute with no support and nowhere to live, and yet they have no way of returning home safely, according...

 to Scottish refugee charities. The claims by the Scottish Refugee Council and Refugee Survival Trust are based on new research by Glasgow Caledonian University’s Scottish Poverty Information Unit,...

The human rights of unaccompanied migrant children
By Richmond Chambers -

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has launched an inquiry into the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the UK, with a particular focus on those who are seeking asylum or have been...

 the victims of trafficking. The Committee seeks evidence on any aspect of this topic, but in particular in relation to the questions set out below: Is the treatment of unaccompanied migrant children and...

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