Useful links for immigration lawyers
Useful links sourced from the new Ministry of Justice, Judiciary, Tribunals and legacy AIT websites.
First Tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber consolidated procedure rules here
Upper Tribunal consolidated procedure rules here
First Tier and Upper Tribunal joint presidential guidance on Child and vulnerable adult and sensitive witnesses (with attached Senior President Practice Direction on the same subject) here
Practice Directions for the Immigration and Asylum Chambers here
Practice Statements for the Immigration and Asylum Chambers here
Old AIT guidance notes here
Country Guideline list here (that link is to the page before as the link to the document looks like it will get broken every time the list is updated)
Reported determinations database here
Unreported determinations database here
First Tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber daily court lists here
Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber daily court lists here
BME lawyers refused compulsory insurance
June 7, 2010 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
The Law Society is looking at allegations that firms have suffered discrimination over professional indemnity insurance.
Black and minority ethnic lawyers are being refused compulsory insurance in what they describe as blatant race discrimination in the legal profession.
Some minority ethnic lawyers have seen their professional indemnity insurance rise by as much as 800%, despite having not received any complaints or claims against them. The controversy has prompted new plans to protect them.
“This year my insurance jumped from £6,000 to £24,000,” said Dele Ogun, a partner at Akin & Law LLP. “I have never seen anything like this before. I cannot begin to explain why a firm like ours, which has built up experience over 13 years, with not a single claim, has had its premiums hiked like this.
UK lawyers fight to save nine-year-old boy from deportation to Iran
November 19, 2009 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
By Alexandra Topping
Lawyers for a nine-year-old boy set to be removed from the UK tomorrow are urgently trying to stop his deportation.
The Iranian boy, known for legal reasons as Child M, has been locked up in Yarl’s Wood in Bedfordshire, the UK’s main immigration removal centre for women and families, since he was arrested with his mother and older brother in Manchester this week. They are due to be put on a flight to Iran tomorrow at 6.30pm.
Child M’s mother has been trying to claim asylum, saying her life is in danger if she returns to Iran because photocopied extracts of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses were found in her house and business.
