Category: Expert Comment

Sheona York Kent Law Clinic 5/7/23 On 29/6/23 the Court of Appeal, by a majority of two to one, allowed the appeal of 10 applicants … Read more

The dangerous assumptions behind Home Office’s plan to ‘stop the boats’– by Sheona York, Kent Law Clinic As reported in the BBC today,[1] the government … Read more

Three signal government failures not identified. By Sheona York of the Kent Law Clinic On 16 June the National Audit Office published a highly critical … Read more

Sheona York, a specialist in immigration and asylum cases at the Kent Law Clinic, comments on how little attention is being paid to how the … Read more

A new report from The Refugee Council has highlighted that although the numbers claiming asylum in the UK each year are lower than in previous … Read more

It was good to see The Guardian consumer affairs journalist Anna Tims addressing misleading information provided to immigration applicants, however, her reply does not get … Read more

It would be magnificent of course if the UK were to accept a proportionate number of UNHCR refugees for resettlement in the UK, rather than … Read more

On 26 February 2021, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in three related appeals dealing with Shamima Begum’s deprivation of British citizenship and whether she … Read more

Today’s media are full of shock-horror comments about the National Audit Office official report on immigration enforcement (HC 110 Session 2019-2021, 17 June 2020). Particularly … Read more

In the face of coronavirus, the Home Office must abandon the ‘hostile environment’ for migrants: At 6pm this evening (Tuesday 17 March 2020), people are … Read more