Scottish Human Rights Law Group

The Prime Minister today announced the publication of a consultation on a new draft Immigration Bill.  This Bill is designed to consolidate the existing legislation in this area, and simply the immigration system.  The consultation period runs until 3 February 2010.
The full consultation and draft Bill can be viewed here.

H, a Somali national who had been granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK, sought judicial review of his detention by the secretary of state pending determination of whether he should be deported following his imprisonment for criminal offences.  

An Iranian asylum seeker was detained pending deportation and remained in detention for almost 34 months due to his continued failure to co-operate with the removal process.   The High Court held that despite his clear intention not to co-operate with removal procedures, and to remain in the UK, his continuing detention was illegal.

On 21 July 2009 the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill received Royal Assent.   The following analysis of the Bill was published in The Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk) on 1 June 2009:
A bill designed to simplify immigration law and strengthen borders that extends the time it takes to gain citizenship.

 
 
The Inner House of the Court of Session refused an application by a woman of Palestinian ethnicity who sought to set aside an interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary refusing her application for statutory review under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 s. 101  of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal’s refusal to give her permission to appeal.