London Borough of Haringey v MA & Ors [2008] EWHC 1722 (Fam) (21 July 2008) This case raises points that have been the subject of earlier decisions of the courts relating to the adoption of a child by a member of his or her family who live abroad. The earlier cases demonstrat...
Case Report SS v KS [2009] EWHC 1575 (Fam) (03 July 2009) This is an interlocutory appeal from an Order of District Judge Segal sitting in the Principal Registry of the Family Division on 27th February 2009. For reasons that will appear, I am giving this jud...
Case Report AM (Serbia) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWCA Civ 16 (25 January 2007) Frequent statutory changes to legal structures and procedures necessitate transitional provisions. Sometimes the pace of change and the complexity of the provisions produce anomalies and possibly unin...
Case Report MY (Turkey) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 477 (08 April 2008) When he granted permission for this appeal Richards LJ said that it was a case which demonstrated the difficulties that can be caused to immigration judges by the system of second-stage reco...
Case Report ZG (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 345 (04 March 2008) This is an application for permission to appeal. The applicant is ZG (Iran). She seeks permission to appeal against a decision of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal promulga...
Case Report XZ (Russia) & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 180 (11 March 2008) These conjoined appeals come before the court by permission of Sir Henry Brooke, who, while recognising that both involve essentially factual challenges, took the view that the need for anxious scruti...
Case Report MB (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer [2008] EWCA Civ 102 (20 February 2008) This appeal raises questions as to the proper interpretation of para 317(i) of the Immigration Rules ( the Rules ) and the application of articles 8 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (...
Case Report Kalombo, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 302 (17 March 2009) The appellant comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and seeks asylum for humanitarian protection in this country.
He appeals from a judgment of Cranston J dismis...
Case Report HJ (Iran) & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 172 (10 March 2009) These cases require a decision as to what test to apply when considering whether a homosexual is entitled to refugee status and whether the test has been correctly applied by the Asylum and Immigratio...
Case Report OA (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer [2009] EWCA Civ 492 (18 February 2009) This is a renewed application for permission to appeal against a decision of Immigration Judge Dawson given on 17 July 2008 on a second-stage statutory reconsideration. Permission to appeal ...
Case Report MQ (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 61 (11 February 2009) This is an appeal from the decision of IJ McDade, on second stage reconsideration, dismissing the appellant's appeal from the decision of the respondent to refuse his application for refugee, human ri...
Case Report BA (Nigeria), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 119 (26 February 2009) Although the facts of these two cases differ, they raise a single issue of law: in the absence of a fresh asylum or human rights claim, is the right of appeal against the Home Office's refusal to revo...
Case Report SN (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 181 (21 January 2009) This is an appeal against a reconsideration by Senior Immigration Judge Jordan, handed down on 1 June 2008, whereby he concluded that the Immigration Judge at the original app...
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