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UK: Home Office unlawfully relied on outdated guidance on Albania

On 9 May 2017, the UK Court of Appeal ruled on case LC (Albania) v SSHD concerning an Albanian national who had his asylum application refused by the Home Office on the grounds of lack of credibility of his sexual orientation and the belief that he would be able to live safely in Albania as a gay man.

▻https://www.ecre.org/uk-home-office-unlawfully-relied-on-outdated-guidance-on-albania-when-assessin
#orientation_sexuelle #LGBT #homosexualité #Albanie #asile #migrations #réfugiés #renvois #expulsions #UK #Angleterre

UK court refuses to let wife divorce husband, tells her unhappiness is to be expected in marriage
▻http://boingboing.net/2017/03/24/uk-courts-refuses-to-let-wife.html

Judge Robin Tolson ruled against Mrs Owens in the family court last year, concluding that her allegations were “of the kind to be expected in marriage” and refused to grant a divorce petition.

‘Train tracks or traffickers’: how government policy is forcing child refugees to risk their lives rejoining family in the UK

But there are signs of improvement. In January, a UK court ruled that three Syrian teenagers and an adult with mental health problems should be reunited with their relatives and allowed to have their asylum claims heard in Britain. It was a landmark decision against “Dublin”, with lawyers for the four successfully arguing for the refugees’ entitlement to a family life, under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. More progress was made this week, as three unaccompanied Syrian children arrived in the UK from Calais after a similar ruling.

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trafficking-government-calais-child-refugees-family-minors-a6943866.h
#asile #migrations #réfugiés #enfants #enfance #mineurs #Calais #risque #politique_migratoire #UK #Angleterre

GCHQ-NSA intelligence sharing unlawful, says UK surveillance tribunal | Privacy International
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/?q=node/482

British intelligence services acted unlawfully in accessing millions of people’s personal communications collected by the NSA, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled today. The decision marks the first time that the Tribunal, the only UK court empowered to oversee GHCQ, MI5 and MI6, has ever ruled against the intelligence and security services in its 15 year history.

#surveillance #bonne_nouvelle

Interrupting the implacable: fighting the Detained Fast Track

The UK Court of Appeal will hear an appeal this week over the lawfulness of automatically detaining asylum seekers while their appeals are heard. The era of expansion of this practice is already over and further change is likely.

▻https://opendemocracy.net/jerome-phelps/interrupting-implacable-fighting-detained-fast-track

#détention_administrative #détention #rétention #asile #migration #réfugiés #UK #Angleterre