Category: Key document

ILPA documents | Courts and Tribunals

ILPA Letter to the First-tier Tribunal Re: Supporting Litigants-in-Person in the Legal Aid Crisis (12 July 2024)

Further to the letter ILPA sent to Judge Plimmer on 8 April 2024, and her response of 19 April 2024, we sent the below letter to Judge Roxanne Frantzis of […]
Key document

Long-term international migration, provisional: year ending December 2023 (23 May 2024)

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its latest provisional estimates of long-term UK international migration on 23 May 2024. Please note, ‘Those for year ending (YE) March, June, September […]
Key document | Courts and Tribunals

Draft Practice Guidance on the appointment of litigation friends in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) (1 May 2024)

Please see below draft Practice Guidance on the appointment of litigation friends in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) (UTIAC) which has been shared with ILPA for the purpose […]
Key document | Courts and Tribunals

Minutes of the UTIAC Practitioners Liaison Group Meeting on 1 May 2024

Please see below the minutes of the UTIAC Practitioners User Group meeting on 1 May 2024.
Key document | Removals, Detention and Offences

Drafting Options for Amendment to Rule 62 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001 (DCR) (1 May 2024)

Please see the below drafting options for amendment to Rule 62 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001 which the Home Office has shared with ILPA for the purpose of review […]
Key document | Courts and Tribunals

Draft Practice Direction of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal

Please see below a draft Practice Direction of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal which has been shared with ILPA by the Judicial Office for the purpose […]
Key document | Refugee

Open Letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the Rwanda Bill/Act (23 April 2024)

ILPA, along with 250 other organisations, has signed the below open letter sent to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: Dear Prime Minister, We write to express our shared outrage at the […]
ILPA documents | Courts and Tribunals

ILPA Correspondence with Judge Plimmer Re: Supporting Litigants-in-Person in the Legal Aid Crisis (April 2024)

ILPA sent the below letter to Judge Melanie Plimmer, Chamber President of the First-tier Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, on 8 April 2024 regarding the support of litigants-in-person in light […]
ILPA documents | Courts and Tribunals

ILPA Correspondence with Judge Plimmer Re: Remote attendance at in-person hearings without prior notice (April 2024)

ILPA sent the below letter to Judge Melanie Plimmer, Chamber President of the First-tier Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, on 2 April 2024 in relation to the issue of the […]