Comment
The Supreme Court decision – detaining asylum seekers was unlawful
On 27 November 2019, the Supreme Court gave judgment in R (Hemmati and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] UKSC 56.
Comment
Prosecution of asylum seekers needs to stop
Tara Casey wrote recently, ‘Poverty is not a crime and should never be treated as one’. Likewise, seeking asylum is not a crime, but is too often treated as one.
The American academic Professor Juliet Stumpf described the convergence of criminal and immigration law as ‘crimmigration’. Two recent cases illustrate how harshly asylum seekers may be treated under crimmigration law.
Publication
Institutional care and poverty: evidence and policy review
This review, sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, examined international evidence about the links between institutional care and poverty in order to identify strategies for reducing the risks...
News
Home Office, think again
The campaign group, Liberty, has responded to the Home Office's recent 'Go Home' campaign vans by organising another van carrying a very different message, The Guardian...