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BREAKING: High Court finds immigration detention systems are in breach of Art 3 ECHR as they fail to provide appropriate safeguards to care for individuals with HIV. First domestic case finding an Art 3 ECHR systems breach.
More to follow.
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In the last 5 days, we have been in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and ECtHR. The interim measure from Strasbourg set the wheels in motion for all remaining others to be taken off the flight. No one went to Rwanda yday. No one is above the law. The fight continues
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We welcome the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of one of our clients due to be removed tonight to Rwanda. More to follow!
Interim measure granted in case concerning asylum-seeker’s imminent removal from the UK to Rwanda
#ECHR
#CEDH
#ECHRpress
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Home Office concede Vietnamese client unlawfully detained for 6mths & have paid substantial damages. He’s a trafficking survivor & despite not speaking English his asylum interview went ahead without interpreter. His answers (or lack of) were used to justify his ongoing detention
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BIG NEWS:
Today, the High Court ruled that the Home Secretary breached the human rights of two members of the
#Windrush
generation when she refused to recognise them as British citizens.
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Some Friday positivity: client’s dad arrived in UK today, after successful family reunion app. He hadn’t seen children for 6yrs or wife since he was kidnapped in Syria last yr. He can’t believe he’s now safe, with his family & that they have enough food to cook all together again
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Today, the Home Office agreed to transfer our 26th client out of the ex-military barracks Penally Camp, based on “his individual circumstances”. However, none of these v. vulnerable clients should have been housed in the barracks in the first place. Our wider challenge continues.
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SUCCESS!
#HomeOffice
ordered to pay over £100k in damages to our client, unlawfully detained for 410 days. Judge found that detention caused client’s PTSD & awarded significant personal injury damages. Our
@georgia_banks
instructing David Sellwood
@gardencourtlaw
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One of our ex-clients was trafficked as a child and has now gone on to work tirelessly to end child criminal exploitation himself. He has secured a University place to study Criminology and Sociology in order to further his work but is not eligible for a student loan.
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As ever, an honour to represent our individual clients, but also to act for
@DetentionAction
@Care4Calais
&
@pcs_union
to challenge not only Tuesday’s flight, but also the
#Rwanda
policy itself. Many of our clients are off the flight but the legal challenge continues next week.
BREAKING We've been granted permission to appeal the High Court decision allowing next week's
#Rwanda
flight on Monday. Our full legal case against the policy will be heard in the next few weeks. We need your help more than ever to
#StopRwanda
Please go to
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Our Afghan client, a very talented cricket bowler who hopes to play for England, has been granted asylum! His case had been refused despite arriving just 11yrs old & was referred to us by
@refugeecouncil
’s cricket project. We’re so pleased he can finally be safe.
@JamieB2712
acts
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Samim has confirmed that he is now in Istanbul and will be flown to the UK this evening. We are delighted to have him back safe
#savesamim
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4 yrs ago, client was dragged around airport by Serco staff using a waist restraint belt & chain before a charter flight. We’re delighted to say she’s finally been granted asylum due to risk she’d face on return to Nigeria as a lone disabled woman.
@bayneshannah1
@helencbaron
act
Court stays removal to Nigeria tonight. Hopefully a little peace for her after such an ordeal.
@matrixchambers
and DL's Hannah Baynes acting
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Our team is so honoured to have won ‘Best Contribution by a Law Firm’ at the
@Law_Works
Pro Bono Awards 2022 for our work obtaining a Rule 39 injunction in the ECHR which helped to stop the Home Office’s first flight to Rwanda. 👏👏to all the other winners & nominees!🥳
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NEWS: We won! Judgment will help significantly improve access to legal aid & justice for all immigration detainees held in prisons
@ToufiqueHossain
@jeremy_bloom
Jonah Mendelsohn
@BIDdetention
Chris Buttler &
@alibandegani
@matrixchambers
@gardencourtlaw
We're in the high court today challenging the inadequate access to immigration advice for detainees in prison.
See link below
@matrixchambers
@gardencourtlaw
@BIDdetention
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BREAKING NEWS: The Court of Appeal has just ruled by a majority that
#Rwanda
is NOT a safe third country.
More to follow.
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Happy to announce that our client Samim Bagzid is to be returned to the UK after court injunction.
@JamieB2712
@SKBarrister
.
#savesamim
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Further stay GRANTED! High Court stays removal of our client on charter flight to Zimbabwe. Judge agreed Emergency Travel Document process may violate client’s Art 3 rights on return. Wider claim to stay flight refused as Judge didn’t have individual facts of those not before her
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BREAKING. Home Office has withdrawn the Pushbacks policy, a week before the final judicial review hearing on it. More to follow!
We acted for
@pcs_union
and
@Care4Calais
We’re acting for both
@pcs_union
&
@Care4Calais
in a JR challenging the lawfulness of SSHD’s Pushback Policy to redirect migrant boats back to France.
Read more:
@ToufiqueHossain
@jeremy_bloom
@NinadePuyKamp
Chris Buttler QC James Robottom
@matrixchambers
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NEWS: We’ve been granted permission to judicially review the
#government
rules and current Permission to Work policy for
#asylum
seekers.
#RefugeesWelcome
#RefugeeWeek2020
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NEWS: Courts halts charter flight to Spain tomorrow after judge finds an arguable risk that Dublin returnees would face destitution and homelessness. Relieved to see the rule of law upheld and our vulnerable clients’ rights protected.
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BREAKING: High Court rules SSHD committed ‘a colossal interference’ in right to family life of a
#Windrush
victim, breaching Article 8 ECHR.
@ToufiqueHossain
@jeremy_bloom
Jonah Mendelsohn
@NinadePuyKamp
inst. Chris Buttler QC &
@alibandegani
@matrixchambers
@gardencourtlaw
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Over the last week, our team took on 19 clients from Yemen, Kuwait, Iran and Afghanistan facing removal to France this morning. After urgent last minute action all 19 were confirmed deferred, stayed, or never served with removal directions.
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After a long battle, two Eritrean sisters we represent have finally been granted asylum! For 11 years, the Home Office insisted they return to Saudi Arabia, & denied they were at any risk. We’re so pleased they’re finally able to move on with their lives. Our
@AliSulaiha
acting.
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NEWS: The Brook House Inquiry will commence public hearings tomorrow, the first inquiry into immigration detention in the UK.
We’re representing 13 Core Participants & Witnesses, mainly former detainees at Brook House who experienced bullying, racist abuse or physical assault.
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4 hr hearing at the court of appeal:
@ukhomeoffice
application is refused (again).
#SamimBigzad
will be in UK tom
@SKBarrister
@JamieB2712
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BREAKING: Supreme Court unanimously rules that detention of asylum seekers under Dublin III regulation solely for purpose of removal was unlawful. Hundreds/thousands detained unlawfully between 1.1.14 and 15.3.17 and may be entitled to common law damages.
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5 yrs after his detention,
#HomeOffice
finally agree to pay our client 45k in damages. Our lewis_kett and
@razahalim
@gardencourtlaw
acting.
Stark facts of his case reveal the failing and inhumane system…
THREAD (1/5)
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NEWS! Court hearing today: HO has agreed they & their contractors have no power to impose restrictions on movement of asylum seekers living in hotels and cannot threaten residents re. non-compliance. HO to immediately inform providers & residents that no such restrictions exist.
We’re instructed by several clients in hotels who are subjected to unlawful & disproportionate restrictions, including strict time limits for leaving & curfews. Interim Relief hearing is listed for next week
@SheroyZaq
@georgia_banks
@GeorgiaGudex
inst Laura Dubinsky
@Care4Calais
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Order from the Upper Tribunal just in - Home Office ordered not to remove our client to Zimbabwe tomorrow. We remain concerned that Court intervention was needed & other Zimbabwean nationals still face unlawful deportation tomorrow
#stoptheplane
#keepbryaninwakefield
#Zimbabwe150
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The
#homeoffice
tried to deport Najat a week ago. We had to go to the Court of Appeal to stop it. This is him being welcomed home by his family this afternoon. They asked us to show the damage the
#hostile
#environment
causes. It must end.
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“It is precisely this sort of ugly authoritarianism that the rule of law is called upon to counter. The entire legal profession is proud of those lawyers who are being so crudely & dangerously vilified”
Proud of our profession & to uphold the rule of law, without fear or favour.
Lawyers call for apology from Johnson and Patel for endangering colleagues
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BREAKING: Home Office withdraws new evidential test for ‘reasonable grounds’ (RG) decisions in Modern Slavery Statutory Guidance and agrees to reconsider & review part of the policy which required objective evidence at RG stage.
Interim relief granted in challenge over new statutory guidance on Modern Slavery. Claimant is represented by Shalini Patel & Thomas Munns
@DLPublicLaw
. Counsel instructed: Chris Buttler KC & Katy Sheridan
@matrixchambers
& Raza Halim
@gardencourtlaw
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NEWS: Our clients in the Rwanda litigation have been granted permission to appeal on all outstanding grounds. The appeal will be heard by the Court of Appeal in the final week of April.
A link to the a summary of our 8 grounds of appeal to follow.
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High Court granted injunction yday to stop asylum seeker tortured in Sudan and Libya, being evicted by Home Office, into the freezing cold, during lockdown, in the middle of a pandemic.
Our
@bayneshannah1
,
@helencbaron
&
@MarieNEDELEC3
inst.
@razahalim
@gardencourtlaw
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Our Afghan client has been granted asylum! She is a fierce advocate for women’s rights, a Chevening scholar & has previously assisted
@amnesty
with their vital work. We’re so happy she will now be safe to continue her work in the United Kingdom. Our
@JamieB2712
acting.
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BREAKING:
#HomeOffice
’s appeal against the injunction refused. Stay on removal for individuals held at Harmondsworth and Colnbrook stands.
We are still appealing our wider challenge which includes those held at Brook House, to the Court of Appeal.
#Jamaica50
#enddeportation
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Great
#Friday
news: client who’s been seeking asylum for 5 years has been recognised as a refugee! He’s been through so much – imprisoned as a child in Eritrea, kidnapped & tortured in Chad & Libya, then detained in UK. We're so pleased he's finally able to focus on the future.
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URGENT: Today we issued proceedings to stop removal of anyone detained in Heathrow detention centres following detainee’s tragic death at Harmondsworth IRC last Thursday. Stay granted for 3 detainees who may have information about his death; still pursuing stay on all removals
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SSHD withdraws plan to house asylum seekers on isolated industrial estate next to Yarl’s Wood IRC. Our client, a resident of Bedford, threatened legal action to stop asylum seekers being housed in these inhumane conditions. We seek urgent confirmation that withdrawal is permanent
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BREAKING: Supreme Court unanimously upholds the Court of Appeal’s decision that Rwanda is NOT a safe third country to return asylum seekers and that the policy is unlawful.
More to follow.
#Rwanda
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BREAKING: Court finds SSHD’s Deaths in Detention policy is in breach of her obligations under Art 2 ECHR. Further finds SSHD acted unlawfully when attempting to remove client without securing witness evidence after the death of a detainee caused by neglect.
In 2019 the SSHD tried to remove our client, a key witness to the death of a detainee caused by neglect. Yday, we were in Court challenging SSHD’s failure to preserve evidence & to stay removals following a death in detention
@JamieB2712
@sonalinaikqc
@razahalim
@Stephen_Clark42
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Appeal allowed for client who fled Afghanistan as a child. Even before recent events, his brothers were murdered by Taliban & Judge found he would not be safe anywhere in the country. We’re so relieved he can now find safety in the UK.
@JamieB2712
@harrietojshort
@OnePumpCourt
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NEWS: We are representing
@DetentionAction
in a potential legal challenge over detention of asylum seeking children in Kent, in contravention of law and policy. These children need to be with their families or in care, not in detention.
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Amazing outcome last week: After 15yrs, Judge finally accepts client is gay & has been in relationship for 10yrs. He was almost removed to Afghanistan on Christmas Day despite evidence of past torture. Thanks to
@rainbowmigrants
for support & evidence
@JamieB2712
@Eleri_Griffiths
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BREAKING: In separate and concurrent judicial review challenge, Court of Appeal grants injunction staying the removal of any individuals at the Heathrow detention centres on the Jamaican charter flight who did not have access to a non-O2 SIM card on or before 3 February 2020.
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Some great Friday news: both our Syrian client, a torture survivor, & our Darfuri client, a torture & trafficking survivor, have been granted asylum in UK! This is brilliant news but their strong asylum claims should not have taken over 1 year to be decided. Our
@tomgnunn
acting
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BREAKING NEWS:
We've won! The Lord Chancellor has accepted that the making of the Regs was unlawful as the consultation was inadequate and he had failed to satisfy his duty of inquiry.
Critical evidence from
@ILPAimmigration
,
@TheLawSociety
@thebarcouncil
and others
See below
We’re challenging the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020.
Our
@ToufiqueHossain
,
@jeremy_bloom
&
@SimonRobinson78
inst. Chris Buttler & Eleanor Mitchell
@matrixchambers
&
@alibandegani
@gardencourtlaw
cc
@ILPAimmigration
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Our client, a 20yr old trafficking survivor who also suffered childhood sexual abuse, was detained for removal to Vietnam today. Her removal has now been deferred & she’ll be released back to safety of her foster carer after HO finally recognise she may be VoT.
@Lottie__Hume
acts
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As Lord Reed stated in the Supreme Ct: "In bringing that application, the appellant’s lawyers were performing their proper function of ensuring that their clients are not subjected to unlawful treatment at the hands of the Government."
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Family reunion granted outside the rules to client who fled Syria alone as a child. He can now reunite with his mother& 13yr old brother in the UK. When we told him, he asked if this meant he could finally see his mum again. Thanks to
@BritishRedCross
for incredible support (1/2)
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🥳 🥳 🥳
It’s been a tough few months, so we are very proud of our part in this recognition, and grateful for the ongoing solidarity.
More below from the DL mothership 😉
We are delighted to have won the Large Law Firm of the Year award at the Law Society Excellence Awards 2020!
By representing clients in over 25 areas of law across England & Wales, we strive to ‘give people a voice’ and achieve the best possible outcomes for all our clients.
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On behalf of
@DetentionAction
, we are pleased to be challenging Kent County Council & SSHD’s ill-treatment & neglect of newly arrived unaccompanied asylum-seeking children as their basic human rights continue not to be met. Our
@JamieB2712
@ELD_89
inst
@sonalinaikqc
@shushinluh
📢📢📢 NEWS: We're taking
@pritipatel
&
@Kent_cc
to court for failing to protect refugee children.
If you're concerned by kids being detained at our border & then sent to live alone in hotels pls read this 🧵 & consider donating to our legal action here:
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Relentless work by
@sonalinaikqc
&
@alibandegani
and all at
@gardencourtlaw
who worked on these cases. Our
@ToufiqueHossain
,
@maria_thomas80
,
@MariaZPetrova
,
@georgia_banks
,
@dunyakamal_
and many others in the
@DLPublicLaw
team.
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We're in the High Court today challenging the government's permission to work policy for asylum seekers and trafficking surviors. Our
@ToufiqueHossain
,
@AliSulaiha
,
@Lottie_hume
and
@SpivackAnna
instructing
@workofanhour
@Landmark_LC
NEWS: We’ve been granted permission to judicially review the
#government
rules and current Permission to Work policy for
#asylum
seekers.
#RefugeesWelcome
#RefugeeWeek2020
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Asylum granted to our client, an unaccompanied Iranian Kurdish child. His mum & sister were v sadly killed in honour killings & client had to flee due to imputed political opinion. With all he has suffered, we’re so happy he can now rebuild his life in the UK.
@yasminadib
acts
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Our Public Law team & DL colleagues in Swansea have now collectively had 45 clients transferred out of Penally Camp barracks. The SSHD have said all 45 were transferred “based on their individual circumstances” rather than systemic issues. Our wider litigation continues.
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Great news! Home Office confirms they are withdrawing their refusal of asylum to our client, a bisexual Nigerian man. He will now be granted refugee status and can remain here with his boyfriend. Our
@helencbaron
&
@bayneshannah1
inst. David Sellwood
@gardencourtlaw
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#HomeOffice
were not finished however, then refusing his application for family reunion with his son. Finally allowed, but only after appeal.
Our client was let down for 6 years by our inhumane system. We’re so glad he can finally live in peace. (End)
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Delighted that, in response to our case, the Lord Chancellor will be amending the
#legalaid
regs to allow backdating of funding.
This'll help hard working legal aid sols in urgent cases to secure
#AccessToJustice
Our
@toufiquehossain
@jamieb2712
@jeremy_bloom
@matrixchambers
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NEWS: The High Court has now granted permission in judicial review proceedings that challenge the government's plan to remove safeguards and house asylum seekers, including families with children, in unlicensed HMO accommodation.
@SheroyZaq
@DoughtyStreet
BREAKING! We are challenging the draft HMO Asylum Accommodation Regulations on behalf of a number of asylum seekers concerned about being moved to unlicensed HMOs. The draft Regulations give rise to grave safety concerns.
@SheroyZaq
instructing
@DoughtyStPublic
- More to follow.
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Today, we’re straight back to other important matters. High Court will hear our JR to SSHD’s immigration rules & policy which excludes
#refugee
children from seeking family reunion with their parents & siblings
@AliSulaiha
@SpivackAnna
@RazaHusainQC
@JasonPobjoy
Eleanor Mitchell
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NEWS: Permission granted! Our clients are challenging the UK Govt’s discriminatory treatment of British nationals & their Afghan dependants who were not evacuated from Afghanistan nor granted ILR. Case to be heard March 2022.
Read more here 👇🏾
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BREAKING: At around 1am Court of Appeal refused further relief to the remaining detainees due to be removed at 6.30am.
#HomeOffice
say at least half will benefit from our
@DetentionAction
order, several others obtained injunctions, and some had removal deferred.
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Totally thrilled that
@bumithomas
won appeal today. Court finds that in view of private and family life with sister & significant contribution as artist to the UK, would be disproportionate to remove her to Nigeria. Our
@JamieB2712
inst
@AlasdairMack66
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In an individual challenge, our DL Luton colleagues secured an order staying removal on the Jamaican Charter Flight of client Tajay Thompson. Judge recognised that he has a meritorious claim & he will now pursue his claim in the UK without the threat of removal.
#Jamaica50
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So pleased for
@bumithomas
, our client & an amazing artist - today after a year-long battle, she was granted indefinite leave to remain! Born in Glasgow, Bumi was told in June 2019 that she had 14 days to appeal or she'd be removed from the UK. (1/3)
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NEWS: Our clients challenge decision to house asylum seekers in Penally Camp army barracks. They argue that Home Office did not consider needs of asylum seekers NOR local community when deciding to house up to 236 men in a small, rural, Welsh village.
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BREAKING: In settling JR,
#HomeOffice
agrees to reconsider & re-issue guidance on imposition of study restrictions on individuals who are appeal rights exhausted. Has removed restrictions from our two clients, asylum seeking university students.
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Over 70% of our team are women.
We asked the women in our team 2 questions to celebrate
#InternationalWomensDay2021
1. What changes would you like to see in the law for women?
2. What does it mean to you being a woman in this field?
See some of their answers below!✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿
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Appeal allowed! Home Office tried to deport our client, an EEA national, due to conviction as a child after he was groomed by gangs. Judge found he’d reformed, contributed to UK & it was disproportionate to deport him from family & girlfriend
@JamieB2712
@SimonFRCox
@DoughtyStImm
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NEWS: We’ve been working closely with
@refuaid
to try & secure permission to work for doctors & nurses seeking asylum in UK BEFORE their claims have been outstanding for 12 months. We’re so pleased PTW has now been granted to 1 Iraqi & 1 Syrian doctor before 12 months has passed
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A more accurate framing of the determination of asylum seekers and their lawyers.
Postscript comments from an Upper Tribunal judge - much needed in these difficult times.
Well done
@JamieB2712
@elleanorwilkins
@Eleri_Griffiths
@OnePumpCourt
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After further submissions, Afghan client is finally granted leave to remain! He fled as a child in 2008 but due to huge delays & 4yr wait for initial decision, he suffered yrs of self-harm, psychosis & homelessness. We’re so glad he now has some stability in UK.
@JamieB2712
acts
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SSHD defers our client’s removal which was set for 22:30hrs tonight via
#charterflight
to
#Zimbabwe
. He’s been in the UK 20 years & has a British child. We are relieved we will now have sufficient time to prepare his case. Thanks to
@BIDdetention
.
@JamieB2712
@anthayward21
act
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Home Office has finally recognised that a client, forced to dig graves in Libya, is a trafficking victim. HO had previously ignored this & removed him to Switzerland. He became homeless & came back to UK; now, thanks to
@IsabellaKirwan_
, his asylum claim will be considered here.
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BREAKING: Our challenge to discriminatory support rates for trafficking survivors has led to a ground-breaking Home Office concession and a change of policy as of 1 July.
Our
@shalinipatel0
&
@parrott_lily
inst.
@MirandaButler3
@gardencourtlaw
and Alex Goodman
@Landmark_LC
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Since Dec 2020, we’ve had 14 clients transferred out of Napier barracks. However, many are extremely vulnerable survivors of trafficking & torture & should never have been housed there in the first place. Our wider litigation continues.
@SheroyZaq
@georgia_banks
@TrittonElla
act
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Asylum granted to our Afghan client who worked as an interpreter alongside coalition forces for many years before having to flee for his life. Referred to us by
@GatDetainees
whilst in detention & facing removal before UK agreed to consider his case.
@lewis_kett
&
@JamieB2712
act
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HO Director of Returns Preparation and the Head of Detained Casework (for services to asylum and humanitarian operations?!) are on the
#Queenshonourlist
Wow
No honour in indefinite detention. Nothing humanitarian about returning ppl to conflict zones
Roll on 2018. We're ready
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Thanks to the bravery of the
#Stansted15
grounding the plane, those on board were able to instruct lawyers & we were later able to get injunctions. Some of them now have status, the Home Office accepting their human rights would be breached if removed from UK.
We’ve intervened in today’s appeal brought by the
#Stansted15
who were charged under counter-terror laws for protesting the Hostile Environment.
Protest is not a crime. These charges are an attack on our rights.
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Asylum granted to client who arrived in UK at just 13 yrs old. After providing new evidence, Judge finds his mental ill-health & security situation in Afghanistan would result in significant risk on return.
@JamieB2712
acts. Thanks to
#NHS
,
@JRSUK
&
@weareyoungroots
for support.
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We’re so happy for our
@JamieB2712
being the Times Lawyer of the Week. So well-deserved & for such an important case. Congratulations Jamie! 🎉🥳👏🏼
In this morning's law pages from
@thetimes
, the spotlight falls on
@JamieB2712
from
@DLPublicLaw
: And get The Brief -- analysis straight to your in-box every Thursday.
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Landmark UK decision on the
#Refugee
Convention 1951. A Particular Social Group may include a person who has or is perceived to have a
#disability
or mental illness including where no firm diagnosis is possible.
Our Stefan Vnuk with
@alibandegani
of
@gardencourtlaw
acting.
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For
#RefugeeWeek
this year, we have put together a
#DebunkTheMyths
series: a collection of articles designed to debunk a particular myth about asylum-seekers, refugees, human rights lawyers & legal aid.
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BREAKING: Landmark judgment today requiring
#HomeOffice
to hold an effective
#inquiry
into abuse of detainees at Brook House
#detention
centre! A vital step towards reforming the pervasive culture of impunity and indignity in
#immigration
detention.
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Good news! Our Afghan client referred by
@Medical_Justice
finally granted refugee status!
@EmmaJFitzsimons
obtained injunction with minutes to spare before his flight in '19.
Permission granted after hearing attended by
@CamilaZBesso
Our
@JamieB2712
&
@IsabellaKirwan_
acting.
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High Court again orders SSHD to rtn
#SamimBigzad
on next available flight and explain herself. We are pursuing
#contemptofcourt
#savesamim
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Great result today for client in poor mental health who's been in prison under immigration powers for a YEAR. High Court says detention is likely unlawful, calls Home Office excuses "vague", & orders release within 14 days.🙌Our
@RajaRajeswaranU
, Alice G, &
@EmmaJFitzsimons
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After representations today Samim has been released to his
@RefugeesAtHome
address and will not be detained
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Our
@ToufiqueHossain
:
“Rather than vilifying refugees who enter the UK, plotting potentially unlawful ways in which to push them back, Priti Patel ought to spend time developing safe and durable routes for refugees to claim asylum.”
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Relieved our client Albert Thompson will receive
#cancer
treatment, but
#NHS
Charging Regs REMAIN UNLAWFUL & affect others. We'll keep challenging this.
Huge thanks
@ameliagentleman
@Praxis_Projects
@jeremycorbyn
@ChukaUmunna
for building pressure.
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Virgin airlines says it will no longer help to deport immigrants
We are dealing with a client due to be removed tomorrow night on a Virgin flight...
Let's see.
@ameliagentleman
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We are just so happy and honoured that our Public Law team has also been nominated for Legal Aid Team of the Year 2021!🎉
6/ Legal Aid Team:
Cartwright King Mental Health Team
Duncan Lewis Public Law Team
Matthew Gold & Co Public Law & Community Care Team
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Our client has finally been granted asylum after fleeing Taliban in Afghanistan. He was refused entry under
#DubsAmendment
as a child in Calais, detained in UK & waited 4 years for an asylum interview. We’re so happy he can now finally move on with his life. Our
@JamieB2712
acts
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So pleased for our
@ToufiqueHossain
,
@lewis_kett
, Stefan Vnuk and
@ahmed_aydeed
for their much-deserved recognition in
@ChambersGuides
- highlighting their excellence in human rights, public law and immigration, and their commitment to vulnerable clients.🙌
@DuncanLewis
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NEWS: Tribunal has ordered
#homeoffice
to return client from Jamaica as it found that he could not have effective appeal out of country. 1st order of its kind since Supreme Ct case of Kiarie/Byndloss. Our
@AliSulaiha
&
@PhilipArmitage2
with Sonali Naik QC &
@alibandegani
of GC.
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