Menu
right to remain logo
  • Home
  • News
  • Events
  • Toolkit
  • Directory
  • Legal education
  • Newsletter
  • About
  • Contact
  • Donate

Legal Updates

Legal Updates

  • News
  • Legal Updates
  • Events
  • These Walls Must Fall

Charter flight to Afghanistan: permission to appeal granted

August 20, 2015

Legal Updates

Refused asylum seekers with removal directions for the charter flight to Afghanistan on 26 August 2015 should seek immediate legal advice, following the order made by Lord Justice Clarke in solicitors Duncan Lewis’ recent legal action.

Read more

The reality of risk in Eritrea: ‘Everybody is scared to talk … but I am tired of being silent’

August 19, 2015

Legal Updates

This is a guest post by Sara Palacios Arapiles,  who has a background in law and currently works at the Nottingham Rainbow Project, providing advocacy and support to people seeking sanctuary.

Read more

Language analysis in asylum claims – Sprakab quietly dropped?

November 17, 2014

Legal Updates

The Independent reports that the Home Office has quietly stopped contracting the Swedish language analysis  company Sprakab.

Read more

LGBTI asylum claims – the difference, stigma, shame, harm model

August 7, 2014

Legal Updates

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.

Read more

Young Afghans in the UK: deportations in the dead of night to a war-zone

June 24, 2013

News

This article appeared in Open Democracy (50:50) on 24 June 2013. Each year around 400 children forced by war to leave their families and homes… Read more »

Read more

Border hostilities: Passport to the media-policy merry-go-round

November 11, 2011

News

You have most probably heard about the latest scandal at the Home Office. Basically it was about a pilot scheme to replace the blanket checks… Read more »

Read more
Theresa May and a kitten

Cats, lies, and family ties: human rights and wrongs at Tory Party conference

October 4, 2011

News

In an ongoing crusade to remove the “universal” bit from the concept of human rights, the Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May  has announced plans to… Read more »

Read more

Refugees prevented from lodging asylum claims in UK

September 30, 2011

News

Lunar House in Croydon The Guardian reports today on a strongly worded letter from the Law Society to the UK Border Agency and the UN… Read more »

Read more
  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • twitter
  • facebook
  • instagram

Support our work

When people reach the UK, the struggle isn’t over. It's a hostile environment. Right to Remain relies on grants from charitable trusts and on donations from people like you. Your donation will help us to help people in their struggles for the right to remain in the UK, and to campaign for migration justice.

Donate today

Contact

Contact us

About us

Right to Remain works with communities, groups and organisations across the UK, providing information, resources, training and assistance to help people to establish their right to remain, and to challenge injustice in the immigration and asylum system. Right to Remain is a registered charity (charity number 1192934).

Read more

  • Privacy Policy
  • Permissions