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Amarjit Seehra granted permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal has granted permission to appeal on a point of principle. Following the Supreme Court decision in Rhuppiah v SSHD [2018] UKSC 58, the Court is to reassess the extent of flexibility and approach in Article 8 cases where the Appellant has precarious...

Success in asking for costs in the First-tier Tribunal

In a direct access case where an application for leave to remain by parents and their teenage child who had been here for more than 7 years was initially refused and then granted just before the appeal Jonathan Martin assisted the family to make a costs application to...

Permission to apply for JR in a domestic violence case

Jonathan Martin, instructed by Nag Law, was granted permission to seek Judicial Review for a male applicant who had applied for Indefinite Leave to Remain on the basis that his marriage had broken down owing to his partner’s violence. It was found to be arguable...

Post-Brexit arrangements for EU, EEA, Swiss, and Turkish nationals

The ultimate outcome of the negotiations surrounding the UK’s departure from the EU is still unclear. However, as things currently stand, it is the government’s intention that the current free movement rights will cease at some point on or around 31 December 2020....

Temporary Worker Pilot Scheme

This is a trial scheme for a limited number of non-EU workers seeking short term employment in various agricultural industries. This is currently a very limited pilot confined to 2,500 applicants, and at the date of writing it appears that most or all of the places...