Welcome to the February 2018 edition of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month I look at some legal developments with Brexit and review no less than three Supreme Court decisions on immigration, nationality and detention. There have also been some case law on the Points Based System, which I look at alongside the worrying trend in Tier 2 visa applicants being turned away. There are a couple of new Court of Appeal and Upper Tribunal authorities touching on procedure that are worth being aware of, and a few other cases in a range of different areas, all important in their own way.

The material is all drawn from the February 2018 blog posts on Free Movement.

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The main content of the downloadable 30 minute audio podcast follows the (non chronological) order of content below:

Brexit

What does the EU’s draft Brexit agreement say about citizens’ rights?

Blocking Brexit: Article 50 in the Scottish Court of Session

In the Supreme Court

Do unrecognised adoptions confer EU free movement rights? Maybe… (SM (Algeria) v Entry Clearance Officer [2018] UKSC 9)

Landmark Supreme Court decision overrules historic gender discrimination in British citizenship (Advocate General for Scotland v Romein [2018] UKSC 6)

Home Office could not impose bail on migrant who cannot lawfully be detained (B (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] UKSC 5)

Points Based System

High Court gives useful steer on the Resident Labour Market Test (R (Khan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWHC 105 (Admin...