Tag: human trafficking
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Isobel Renzulli: Begum v SSHD (2023): A restrictive approach to Article 4 ECHR
On 22 February 2023, the judgment of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (‘SIAC’ or ‘the Commission’) was published, upholding the Home Secretary’s decision to deprive Shamima Begum of her British citizenship under section 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981 (‘‘the BNA 1981’’) on the ground that it would be conducive to the public good to do…
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James Robottom: The State’s Legal Duty to Hold an Independent Inquiry into the Mass Disappearance of Asylum Seeking Children in its Care
The disappearance of hundreds of asylum seeking children out of Home Office run hotels is an issue of acute national concern. After the Observer reported on 21 January 2023 that “[d]ozens of asylum-seeking children ha[d] been kidnapped by gangs from a Brighton hotel run by the Home Office in a pattern apparently being repeated across the south…
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Ronan Cormacain and Oliver Garner: Schrödinger’s Trafficking Directive and the Nationalities and Borders Bill: Simultaneously law and not law 
Clause 67 of the Nationalities and Borders Bill provides that any legal effects derived from the retained EU Trafficking Directive which are incompatible with any provision in the Bill cease to be law. The major problem is that the clause doesn’t specify which provisions cease to be law. Unlike all other legislation, the Bill is silent on this crucial point. Therefore, no-one knows what…