Daniel Rourke

An important piece - human rights are not a "loophole".
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Upper Tribunal dismisses judicial review in case of parents seeking to reunite with young children  - Free Movement The Upper Tribunal has recently dismissed a judicial review action involving a Turkish Kurdish family who were separated when attempting to cross the Channel.

New from Free Movement: Upper Tribunal dismisses judicial review in case of parents seeking to reunite with young children | Francesca Sella

We never imagined that 80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz we would see such appalling levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and a resurgence of the far right, in Europe.
#HolocaustMemorialDay

Users: We just want precise, Boolean searching. Or like, maybe just pull up the case when we type in its exact name.

Lexis/Westlaw: Okay, here is an AI assistant!

Interesting case on consultation (NB this was a consultation under the previous government). Judgment here. publiclawproject.org.uk/content/uplo...

Good luck!

We had an email a week or so ago with the new logo and an FAQ sheet, but an instruction not to share it until 16 Jan.

Just as something being “enshrined in law” indicates some folly is afoot, so does a policy being “unleashed”.

Word-painting rather than thoughts being applied.

Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media? Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make the...

"Did you consider the people who don't like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don't know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?"

The brass neck of all these Tory MPs suddenly mobilised by child safeguarding. They decimated social care, crushed all LA and community based support infrastructure.

And Jenrick… he dumped lone children in hotels for them to be taken. He’s a one man safeguarding nightmare.

Enjoyed the cheap shot taken at football manager 🤣

There's an excellent series of episodes on the 'full story' podcast exploring the Ben Roberts smith lawsuit against papers in Australia. Ultimately though defamation law will vary significantly between jurisdictions so you might need to be more specific if you're looking for more

Job Ad: Immigration Solicitor at Islington Law Centre - Free Movement We are looking for an experienced Immigration Solicitor to join our highly successful, creative, and dynamic immigration team.

From yesterday: Job Ad: Immigration Solicitor at Islington Law Centre | Free Movement

This looks excellent

Helpful 'state of the nation' summary of legal aid in 2024 from the brilliant @jowilding.bsky.social - great for access to justice nerds who haven't managed to read all of the voluminous output of reports, etc this year

Just published:Public Law Project's brilliant new report on a research project monitoring real capacity for asylum legal aid providers to take on work remotely from South West advice desert. Spoiler: turns out there was v little real capacity, esp for appeals! publiclawproject.org.uk/content/uplo...

Says it all.

Public law project has been maintaining its own register of algorithms and level of transparency here - trackautomatedgovernment.shinyapps.io/register/ - that may be of interest.

They replied to my email agreeing with my analysis that as I had enrolled for the exam today: four months from purchase of the exam to complete it, one month following completion of exam to apply for re-accreditation, during this period, I maintain status 2/2.

Another item off pre-Xmas to do list.

Law Society immigration reaccreditation scheme: how does it work and how can we help? - Free Movement The Law Society is launching its latest round of reaccreditations for senior caseworkers and supervising senior caseworkers in immigration law. Here we take a

In case helpful to anyone else who was panicking that they need to do their IAAS re-accreditation before 31 December 2024, I was able to get the Law Society to confirm @sonial77.bsky.social's interpretation of p7 the guidance set out in her article here - 1/2:

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Having trouble getting my head round the mindset which sees Assad’s prisoners with the sun on their faces, and thinks “Yay, this’ll help us get rid of the foreigners!”

UK #immigration law colleagues: join Sarah Dobbie, @finnianclarke.bsky.social and myself on 4 December to discuss the immigration tribunal's latest attempts to streamline the appeals process, including how to use the new practice direction to your advantage and avoid sanctions!

Looks quality, nice work!

Did a quick ctrl+f and got 0 hits for legal aid 🙃

A pumpkin carved with a growling tiger face

Happy with my #pumpkin carving effort this year. Came out grrrrrrr...eat!!

Lebanon: Exploding Pagers Harmed Hezbollah, Civilians Thousands of pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 17, 2024, resulting in at least 12 deaths, including at least two children and two health workers, and at lea...

“Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk” www.hrw.org/news/2024/09...

Really hard read, but fantastic journalism. Plenty of parallels that can be drawn with our dysfunctional system...

Sorry I don't accept enquiries via this platform. I'm also not able to take on cases in Scotland in any event.

Home secretary to chair summit on smuggling gangs following deaths in Channel Yvette Cooper will convene cabinet members and members of law enforcement agencies to discuss how to tackle small boat crossings in the Channel.

A summit of law enforcement agencies will give you law enforcement solutions to this humanitarian crisis. Presumably the reason migrant rights groups, independent lawyers or refugee representatives aren’t invited is in case they give answers Cooper doesn’t want to hear
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