Supreme Court strikes down Home Office’s back-door changes to immigration rules

18 July 2012

Garden Court North Chambers’ Lucy Mair has written an article for The Guardian discussing the Supreme Court’s decision in Alvi [2012] UKSC 33, to strike down the Home Office’s back-door changes to immigration rules.

Below are some useful links to several of the sources of material referred to in Lucy’s Guardian article:

• The 19th June 2012 “debate” in Hansard;
• The 11th June 2012 session where Theresa May made her first statement to Parliament on the new family migration rules – that is the session where the MP asks Mrs May about the impact on low income communities that is referred to in Lucy’s article;
• UKBA’s Statement of Intent;
• UKBA’s Statement of Changes*; and
• ECHR Memorandum: Statement by the Home Office on Grounds of Compatibility with Article 8 of ECHR.

Lucy Mair is a barrister at Garden Court North Chambers.