Sentences with phrase «sogi asylum cases»

Any later asylum cases if they manage to get to Britain would have heavily relied evidence of previous efforts to get into the country illegally.

The Nigerian's asylum case was fast - tracked and rejected, despite claims that he will be targeted by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram upon return to his home country.

Meanwhile, lawyers are launching a last - minute judicial review calling for Muazu's asylum case to be heard again.

That's the type of judgement which the Home Office now exercises in asylum cases.

The Home Office is currently undertaking a review of gay and lesbian asylum cases after MPs found asylum seekers were having to show officials sexually explicit photos of themselves to prove their sexuality.

However, a parliamentary answer reveals 11 high street shopping vouchers for # 25 have been given out solely to presenting officers in asylum cases since July 2012 as a «one - off recognition of individual performance at court».

Wiles» statement represents an apparent policy change as it contradicts the «Nationality - Swapping» document, which describes how Border Agency officials judging asylum cases should access DNA and isotope evidence from the project and use it in interviews with asylum seekers.

The answers will also be relevant for a preliminary reference that the Dutch Counscil of State has made in a few asylum cases regarding the interpretation of article 9 of the Directive, in particular whether homosexuals can be ascribed as «a social group» in the sense of the provision, and whether it can be expected from them «to conceal some homosexual activities».

This is a particular problem in assisting unaccompanied minors making applications to extend their leave where an asylum case may have previously been refused but the client granted a period of leave on account of their age.

Such matters are no longer in scope and, if there is an Art 8 aspect arising in an asylum case (which there often is), it is encumbent on the practitioner to somehow hive off the out of scope work and record it separately in a parallel file.

Well, there exist various networks; formal networks, less formal networks, I believe there is a network for national judges in asylum cases; in administrative law there is an important network called ACA which is run officially by the Belgian Council of State; there is a network of competition law judges.

Asylum cases will often require hours of testimony delving deep into buried memories of torture, war and persecution.

A corporate junior tried their hand at an asylum case, which was «interesting because I'm not a litigator, so I got to stretch my legs in a space I don't usually work in.»

There was the usual crop of immigration and asylum cases (six in all), at least two of which attracted substantial publicity.

Court and tribunal fees: the government announced that it will drop increases of up to 500 % in tribunal fees for immigration and asylum cases — see this report by The Independent.

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But some have also expressed relief that the criminal legal aid scheme has been left largely untouched, as have funding for inquests, judicial reviews and asylum cases.

Guardian editorial, Public Spending: Banned aid: «Mr Clarke's sensible decision to continue to give legal aid in inquests, in asylum cases and in judicial reviews, to discover that the speed and severity of the cuts announced yesterday will once again disproportionately hurt the poorest and most vulnerable.

The prime minister omitted to tell the CBI that the majority of these cases had nothing to do with business and a lot to do with asylum cases.

Of Chris Grayling's 11,359 JRs in 2011, 8,711 were immigration / asylum cases and 2,309 «other» civil JRs.

First, in 2004, we had David Blunkett trying to remove judicial review from asylum cases.

If we compare figures between 2011 and 2004 there has been a doubling of the number of applications for permission in asylum cases — from 4207 to 8649.

As to actual substantive decisions, the number in civil cases has remained exactly the same (87), those relating to criminal matters have reduced (33 as against 43) and the number of successful asylum cases has remained small though it has risen (from 26 to 54).

There has been recent judicial suggestion that, particularly in asylum cases, lawyers are abusing the system by waiting until the last minute to apply and neglecting to disclose the full circumstances of the case.

Given the fact that each judge could be assigned eight or more asylum cases (any one of which could have hundreds of pages of background evidence) each week, the ability for any given judge to have full familiarity with any given case is limited.

Matters include asylum cases, death penalty appeals, various things through Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, securing the lease of a community garden in NY, student debt renegotiations and helping startups to form LLPs.

She previously served as a law clerk for an internationally recognized business immigration firm in both its Boston and Silicon Valley offices, where she gained extensive experience in H - 1B petitions and played an integral role in getting a pro-bono asylum case approved for a young Honduran girl who faced a horrific tragedy at the hands of notorious gangs (MS - 13 and Mara 18).

It prevents an immigration lawyer focused upon employment - based immigration from getting calls for asylum cases.

He has appeared in both the Immigration Tribunal and Upper Tribunal in immigration and asylum cases.

Litigators we spoke to had tackled divorce cases, death penalty appeals and asylum cases, while transactional lawyers had helped veterans draft wills and formed entities for not - for - profits.

The clinic represents clients in family law cases in Boulder District Court, social security disability cases before federal administrative law judges, and asylum cases before immigration law judges.

Immigration practice includes green cards for spouses, siblings, parents, children; citizenship / naturalization applications; cancellation of removal and handling of removal proceedings; temporary protected status applications; asylum cases; asylum appeals; fiancé visas; and waiver for inadmissibility.

Mailshot of 15 August 2003 (pdf); Civil legal aid: (i) cases involving a wider public interest and (ii) immigration and asylum cases

Originally, exemptions were proposed for asylum cases and members of the Armed Forces.

Consequently, legal aid is retained for asylum cases, for debt and housing matters where someone's home is at immediate risk, and for mental health cases.

It was set up as a specialist structure to cope with a heavy workload of immigration and asylum cases and reduce the number of these cases being heard by the Court of Appeal.

A record number of applications were lodged last year, mainly driven by a rise in immigration and asylum cases.

Planned reforms will divert substantial numbers of immigration and asylum cases towards immigration tribunals and away from the judicial review process.»

She now has substantial experience in immigration and asylum cases which invariably involve Human Rights arguments and arguments about the proper interpretation of the Immigration Rules.

In addition to their other cases, the students are all working on several asylum cases, representing clients from all over the world, and seeking custody orders and filing petitions with USCIS for many juveniles who are eligible for SIJS status (which can lead to legal permanent residency).

After working on her very first pro bono asylum case as a law firm associate, Sarah Nolan, pro bono counsel, Brooklyn Defender Services, knew that she wanted to do more pro bono and dedicate her career to immigration work.

For example, two immigration lawyers where one only does corporate immigration and the other only asylum cases are not really competing with each other, but will frequently be in a position to refer cases to each other.

Where important human rights are concerned, as in asylum cases, anxious scrutiny is required; where the subject matter is less important, the court may be less demanding, and more ready to accept subsequent reasons.

There was also a 24 % reduction in asylum cases and a 5 % reduction in mental health cases.

case, the CJEU will be called upon to interpret EU law with regard to the evidentiary assessment of SOGI asylum cases in a more targeted way than it did in

Not exact matches

In seven years, the number of asylum seekers has nearly doubled in France to reach more than 66,000 cases in 2013.

Just in case, though, Arredondo is researching asylum possibilities in other countries, including Australia, Norway and Finland.

Case Farms, which produces nearly a billion annual pounds of chicken for both mega-chains such as Kentucky Fried Chicken and for federal lunch programs, hired Guatemalan asylum - seeker Osiel López Pérez when he was just 17 years old.

CT noted when Bennett was named the religious freedom ambassador (two years late), as well as several cases where Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board denied asylum because applicants demonstrated poor knowledge of Christian doctrine.

Four out of five asylum seekers can't establish a case.