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The Nuffield Foundation, Research briefing, Rape narratives and credibility assessment (for female claimants) at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT), published April 2012

The Nuffield Foundation, Research briefing, Rape narratives and credibility assessment (for female claimants) at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT), published April 2012 Authors: Helen Baillot, Sharon Cowan and Vanessa […]

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Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) Operational Guidance Notes for Latvia April 2002

Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND)  Operational Guidance Notes for Latvia April 2002

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Higher education in stem subjects, unrevised transcript of evidence taken by the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology with Glyn Williams and Neil Hughes 20 March 2012

Higher education in stem subjects, unrevised transcript of evidence taken by the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology with Glyn Williams Home Office and Neil Hughes UK Border […]

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Al-Jedda v SSHD [2012] EWCA Civ 358

This judgment concerns the Secretary of State’s power to deprive a person of British citizenship under section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981, and in particular the limitation upon […]

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Abubakar v ECO [2012] EWCA Civ 377

This judgment is concerned with the issue of third party support in relation to the rules’ requirement of adequate maintenance without recourse to public funds.  The case specially concerns paragraph […]

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E1 (OS Russia) v SSHD [2012] EWCA Civ 357

In this matter, the appellant had been found to be a refugee and granted indefinite leave to remain in 2002.  In November 2009 he left the UK on his Refugee […]

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Update on Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

The Bill is due to receive its Third Reading in the House of Lords on 27 March 2012.  This is the last of the regular stages of the Bill’s passage […]

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R (ST (Eritrea)) v SSHD [2012] UKSC 12

ST (Eritrea) claimed asylum in the UK on arrival on 3 July 1998.  She had lived in Ethiopia, never in Eritrea.  The proceedings in her case have been relatively complex, […]

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RB (Somalia) v SSHD [2012] EWCA Civ 277

In this judgment, the Court of Appeal largely endorses the approach of the Upper Tribunal in its reported determination of RB (Somalia) [2010] UKUT 329 (IAC).  The Court of Appeal […]