Sayed is a dedicated human rights defender and should be immediately released. It’s bad enough that the UK funds bodies in Bahrain that whitewash torture, they must not allow themselves to be complicit in targeting those who speak out against it.

Our Eric Fripp and Amy Childs deliver their updated free lunchtime webinar on Good Character and access to British nationality (part 1/2) tomorrow courtesy of our colleagues at DGLegalLtd: registration (we think) still open:

Part 2 at lunchtime UK time on 17 October.

Today at 1300-1400 online, no charge (voluntary donation to medical or legal charity), register via DGLegalLtd:

We are delighted to welcome our new pupils to the Group: Jenny Raw at 36 36Family, Daniel Mander 36 Crime, Bethany Smith 36 Public & Human Rights and Kaity Crowe at 36 Stone (36 Stone). More info on our pupillages: 36group.co.uk/pupillage

Great result on Friday in another strategic 'no recourse to public funds' (NRPF) litigation. The SSHD conceded that barring our destitute client and her 1 year old baby from welfare benefits was unlawful & the NRPF condition was lifted from the Claimant's leave to remain. 1/4

Part 2 of the free seminar with Amy Childs and Eric Fripp comes up tomorrow at lunchtime, focusses specific reasons for refusal under criminality, international crimes, notoriety- booking via DGLegalLtd website:

I took a train from London to Manchester today - it cost more and took longer than if I'd flown from Heathrow. We can't be serious about tackling climate change if this kind of thing continues.

Today the Rwanda judgment of the UKSC. Unusually no embargoed judgment to the lawyers. This is hard to separate from the recent history- in the Shamima Begum case- of politically directed leaking in breach- i.e. contempt. Fm Free Movement (archive): freemovement.org.uk/falling-foul-o…

A first glance run-through of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill: 🧵

At @36public, part of The 36 Group, we are delighted to welcome Abiodun Michael Olatekun (Abiodun Michael Olatokun FRSA), who joins us as a probationary tenant after completing public law pupillage at Matrix.

We are pleased to welcome two additions to The 36 Group! Charlie Labrum is joining as Senior Business Development Clerk for the Public Law & Human Rights Team. Gemma Butler is joining as Chambers Administrator, working to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of Chambers.

Baroness Hale of Richmond delivered a brilliant speech on restoring the full jurisdiction of domestic courts and tribunals to consider the safety of Rwanda, to grant interim relief, and to consider interim measures from Strasbourg. These amendments could have no better advocate.

The report for ICIBI from Feb 2023, not yet published- why would that content be worth checking?

On 14 May our Eric Fripp speaks (live and online) on desertion/draft evasion and refugee status, part of a panel of eminent specialists Refugee Law Initiative School of Advanced Study, University of London

Great start to the week spending the evening at DuncanLewisPublicLaw where our Eric Fripp & Sandra Akinbolu gave a talk on Deportation. Thanks to Bahar Ata & Tamana Aziz for their hospitality & to Alleena Akhtar & Angelique Hu for helping to organise. Great to meet so many new faces.

🚨 Urgent Appeal: Pay rates for immigration/asylum legal aid haven't risen since 1996. Legal aid providers can't afford further representation, leaving vulnerable individuals with no legal access. Help us urge the Lord Chancellor to find a solution now ➡️ buff.ly/4bGMUj0

‘Passportisation’: ECtHR finds imposition of Russian citizenship in Crimea a breach of article 8 ECHR | by Eric Fripp ejiltalk.org/passportisatio…