10+ hour, 14+ min ago  (714+ words) Seven years after the government set up a scheme to compensate victims of the Windrush scandal, solicitor Pauline Campbell has put forward three solutions to get the process up to speed I’m meeting Pauline Campbell, a pro bono solicitor for…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (309+ words) Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has rejected accusations that her Immigration and Asylum Bill is prioritising speed over justice - telling parliamentarians that the ability to 'frustrate legitimate removals' within the current system does not feel like justice. Giving evidence to the…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1068+ words) Lawyers are queasy about the home secretary’s plans to enable lay tribunals to determine asylum appeals. The government has not even stipulated what qualifications they will need It is nearly a year since the government announced plans for lay tribunals…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1068+ words) Lawyers are queasy about the home secretary’s plans to enable lay tribunals to determine asylum appeals. The government has not even stipulated what qualifications they will need It is nearly a year since the government announced plans for lay tribunals…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (339+ words) Lawyers have torn into the government's plans to create a new body of non-judges to hear asylum appeals - warning that the proposed Independent Immigration Appeals Authority will fail to reduce the immigration backlog. Ahead of presenting the Immigration and Asylum…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (418+ words) Members of the same family who have applied for Windrush compensation are receiving different awards – however, the Home Office believes letting another department run the compensation scheme would be a bad idea, a parliamentary debate has revealed. The House of…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (418+ words) The Windrush commissioner has revealed that legal support will be the focus of his next phase of work - telling victims of the immigration scandal that he is in a ‘hurry for justice’. The Reverend Clive Foster MBE was appointed last…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (315+ words) The government does not have a date for when non-judges will begin to hear asylum appeals, MPs heard this week - despite the measure being announced last summer because judges were not clearing the backlog quickly enough. The Home Office declared…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (316+ words) Professional adjudicators being hired to replace judges to hear immigration appeals will be independent of the executive and provide ‘appropriately robust scrutiny’ of Home Office decisions, home secretary Shabana Mahmood has insisted. Last summer the Home Office, under Yvette Cooper,…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (375+ words) A partner who specialised in immigration and asylum law has been struck off the roll after he admitted misleading his client and an MP about submissions to the Home Office in relation to an asylum claim. James Martin Taylor, a…...