The Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC) has launched a legal challenged against the Home Office’s practice of charging exorbitant fees to grant British citizenship to children who are entitled to it.  Legal firm Mishcon de Reya is acting for PRCBC pro bono and Amnesty International is also supporting the litigation…

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a report raising “serious concerns” with the new Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill that is currently under review. As the press release puts it, the Committee “is concerned that some of the new powers are too vaguely defined and do not have sufficient safeguards to protect human…

JUSTICE, an “an all-party law reform and human rights organisation working to strengthen the justice system,” has released a new report making the case for significant reform in the immigration asylum appeals system. The starting point for the report is the long-documented – and bemoaned – complexity of the appeals system (and of immigration law…