Detention under parliamentary scrutiny
A Detention Action and Right to Remain event Date: Tuesday 7th October 2014 Location: Praxis Community Projects, Pott Street, London, E2 0EF Time: 6.00pm –… Read more »
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Mobile Solidarities – the Right to Remain Conference
This article was written by Yasmin Gunaratnam for the Mapping Immigration Controversy project. Over a hundred people filled the small community hall that hosted the… Read more »
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Shining a light on the inhumanity of the current system
By Ben from Detention Action. This blog post was written for the Unlocking Detention blog. Unlocking Detention runs from 14 September to 20 December and… Read more »
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What we learned from the Right to Remain conference
This post was written by Evelina, our wonderful volunteer, who is leaving Right to Remain after a year of amazing contribution, energy and passion. The… Read more »
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The Guardian questions its use of the phrase “illegal immigrants”
Right to Remain recently wrote to The Guardian newspaper to complain at its persistent use of the phrase “illegal immigrants”. The letter was also signed… Read more »
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High Court’s DFT Order is toothless but perhaps predictable
On 9 July we celebrated the victory of our friends at Detention Action over immigration detention when the High Court ruled that the Detained Fast Track system… Read more »
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High Court’s DFT Order is toothless but perhaps predictable
On 9 July we celebrated the victory of our friends at Detention Action over immigration detention when the High Court ruled that the Detained Fast Track system was being operated unlawfully. Although previous judgments had been critical of the DFT system, this case was significant as it is the first time any aspect of the system has been acknowledged as unlawful by the court.
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LGBTI asylum claims – the difference, stigma, shame, harm model
Since the landmark 2010 Supreme Court judgment in which it was ruled the Home Office could not tell LGBTI asylum-seekers that they could go back to their country of origin and ‘live discreetly’, the Home Office has shifted its tactics in refusing asylum claims.
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Radical funding for radical change: Edge Fund looking for migrant members
A guest post from Sophie Pritchard of Edge Fund Edge Fund is a grant-making organisation that funds individuals and small groups working to challenge injustice… Read more »
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Campaign for Isabella Acevedo, Mark Harper MP’s former cleaner
– Snatched at daughter’s wedding by Immigration raid – Deported to Colombia – Campaign for justice continues Isabella Acevedo, former cleaner for Mark Harper… Read more »
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Residence Test found to be unlawful by High Court
Great news! This week, a timely and scathing judgment by a rare three-judge Divisional Court in PLP v Secretary of State for Justice, ruled that the atrocious “residence test” is unlawful. Lord Justice Moses led the judgment, finding that it was not within the Justice Secretary’s power to introduce the residence test, and that its blatantly discriminatory intentions and effects are unjustified.
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Residence Test, Impact of Latest Legal Aid Cuts, Minimum Income Judgment – an Update
This post will give a round up on some of the latest significant legal aid and immigration news, focussing on the residence test, the evident, grim impact of LASPO 2012, and the Home Secretary’s win over minimum income requirements in the Court of Appeal.
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