So sorry for your loss.

I am very much saddened to report that my friend, @nearlylegal.co.uk passed away this weekend.

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A great result. We've supported a number of clients facing this sort of unrealistic behaviour.

This paragraph in the judgment is a familiar experience with Home Office decision making in this context and other cases involving vulnerable people.

Papyrus - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

Have you seen the Ryan Gosling SNL sketches about the Avatar logo font? Think you would like youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ&pp=ygULYXZhdGFyIHNubCA%3D

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act has been given Royal Assent - www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/3...

Which means that the Safety of Rwanda Act has been repealed, as have the elements of the Illegal Migration Act that effectively banned asylum claims being processed

Big news, income tax is being charged this year.

(It has to be renewed each year or it ceases to apply. Because it's a temporary tax, introduced to fund the Napoleonic wars)

He makes some good points I thought 😅

02:25 Hopefully this will be a close series
02:30 We're going to lose 5-0
03:00 I'm going to bed
07:30 *checks score* Existential dread
08:30 this is interesting
09:45 We're going to win 5-0

#ashes

Definitely a must-read on yesterday's Home Office announcements.

Reviewing refugee status every 30 months will add avoidable distress & pile pressure on the appeal system. Courts have held fast-track appeals to be systemically unfair before.

These plans risk hindering integration & increasing bureaucracy instead of fixing problems (5/5)

Politicians and the press must also be honest: the ECHR’s impact on immigration is often overstated — more lottery millionaires are created each year than foreign national offenders who win appeals on human-rights grounds alone, for example (4/5)

Any domestic or international reform must be careful not to destabilise the ECHR system of rights. The Government already has legal flexibility to balance Article 8 (family life) with other concerns, including for foreign national offenders (3/5)

We can & must find solutions to these challenges while upholding the rights & dignity of all, including asylum-seekers & refugees

The govt is right to reaffirm commitment to the ECHR & HRA. These rights protect ordinary people daily, from rape survivors to care home residents (2/5)

Today's asylum proposals risk worsening problems & causing deep worry for people trying to build safe, stable lives with their families.

Current serious problems such as huge backlogs & hotel use stem from Home Office policies not our human rights laws (1/5)

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"

That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

Our @refugeecouncil.bsky.social initial analysis estimates that in the first decade 1.4m people would need to have their status reviewed at a cost of £872m (based recent asylum grants, but limited by the lack of Home Office appeal outcomes data).

The Government inherited an asylum system in meltdown, and had managed to at least get cases being processed again while ending the madness of the Rwanda plan. But the policies being announced today undermine all of that, making it harder for refugees to integrate and contribute to their communities

Lammy urged to end ‘scandal’ of people imprisoned for own protection Exclusive: Removing courts’ power would help vulnerable adults and children and ‘free up jail spaces’, experts say, in wake of recent manhunts to find missing prisoners released by mistake

JUSTICE and 40+ other experts today urge the govt to remove the power to imprison people for their own protection while they await trial.

Prisons are not places of care, and this practice worsens issues such as homeless, addiction & mental health crises.

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Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty

Leaving the ECHR won't stop people risking their lives through Channel crossings but it WOULD harm the rights of both migrants in the UK & our wider communities.

On 75th Anniversary of ECHR, we call on politicians to stop scapegoating & defend human rights.

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A large group of MPs posing for a formal photograph inside the House of Commons chamber in the UK Parliament, surrounded by green benches, wooden panelling, and large hanging lights

📰 In this week’s Monday Mail, I reflect on the European Convention on Human Rights; what it does, why it's important, and why it must be protected.

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Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty

A day ahead of its 75th anniversary, nearly 300 UK-based organisations have spoken out in defence of the European Convention on Human Rights👇

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#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #ECHR75

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

One of your best newsletters this morning (though depressing this is where our public discourse is at) - such moral clarity in the argument.

Robert Buckland: Leaving the ECHR would be a grave mistake | Conservative Home Withdrawal from the ECHR would upset the delicate political balance in Northern Ireland, compromise our extradition and security arrangements, and damage our moral authority abroad. Above all, it woul...

Really important article from @robertbuckland.bsky.social:
"Above all, it would betray a tradition of liberty under the law that Britain itself helped to shape"

Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift

Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift. My Times piece on the Tories’ policy of leaving the ECHR based on spurious claims. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Thanks for this David!

I was going to go to synagogue today, but I’m honestly too shaken now - I’ll pray at home

But I just checked my email to see the details of where I was meant to go, and remembered there was a whole document they sent me on safety and security if I visited

This is life for Jewish people in the UK

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

This morning at #LabourConference, JUSTICE and APPEAL led a roundtable on compensating victims of miscarriages of justice, hosted by @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social

With @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social and @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social, we discussed reforming a regime forcing victims to prove innocence.