23Nov 2020
Cases
13Nov 2020
C (A child: Care proceedings) 2020 EWFC B46 C (A child: Care proceedings) 2020 EWFC B46
Judge gave guidance on parenting with support for parents with learning difficulties and named Royal Borough of Greenwich against their representations because he thought their failures in this regard
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13Nov 2020
S (A child)(interim residence) Re 2012 EWCA Civ 1915 S (A child)(interim residence) Re 2012 EWCA Civ 1915
Child removed from interim cre of grandmother because of her religious beliefs
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13Nov 2020
Royal Borough of Greenwich v DC and Ors [2019] EWHC 1751 (Fam) Royal Borough of Greenwich v DC and Ors [2019] EWHC 1751 (Fam)
Father found responsible for 12 week old baby’s death despite being acquitted in criminal court; mother found to have failed to protect the child and had her present child placed for adoption
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20Oct 2020
R (BG) v SSHD [2016] EWHC 786 (Admin) (12 April 2016) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2016/786.html
Key questions before the High Court and Court of Appeal included whether the SSHD had erred in refusing to recognise BG as a victim of trafficking and the role of the Court in victim identification.
Area of Law: Personal Immigration Asylum EU Law Human Trafficking Unlawful Detention Public Law Multidisciplinary Modern Slavery & Trafficking Team
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19Jun 2020
SINGH v SSHD [2019] EWCA Civ 1504, 22 August 2019
A ‘rare’ successful application to reopen and overturn a final decision of the Court of Appeal This case is significant in that it establishes that final decisions of the Court of Appeal can be...
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19Jun 2020
K (a child) v SSHD [2018] EWCH 1834 (Admin)
Important test case in which the High Court declared British nationality act provisions to be discriminatory against children born out of
Wedlock to British fathers. The Secretary of State’s...
19Jun 2020
PHAM v SSHD [2018] EWCA Civ 2064
The issue in this case was whether the decision to deprive Pham (convicted of terrorism offences and currently incarcerated in the United States) of his British citizenship was justified or should...
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19Jun 2020
MK (A CHILD BY HER LITIGATION FRIEND CAE) V SSHD [2017] EWHC 1365 (ADMIN) [2017] 6 WLUK 215
This test case involved a stateless child (MK) born in the UK in November 2010. Her parents were both nationals of India. MK had made an application for registration as a British citizen under...
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19Jun 2020
PHAM V SSHD [2015] UKSC 19
Appeal to the Supreme Court from the Court of Appeal. The appellant was born in Vietnam and as a young child came to the United Kingdom, acquiring British citizenship at the age of 12. Aged 21 he...
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