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Colin Yeo

Barrister, writer, campaigner and consultant specialising in immigration law

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Posted on 13 March 2014

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  • Latest statistics show asylum appeal backlog exceeds 80,000 cases 12 March 2026
    The backlog of asylum appeals at the immigration tribunal has exceeded 80,000 cases, the latest tribunal statistics show. Some of those cases will include dependents as well as main appellants. As recently as 2023, there were only 9,000 cases in the appeal system, so the increase is genuinely astonishing, as the chart shows. The chart […]
  • Afghan national’s job too remote from counter-narcotics objectives to qualify for relocation 12 March 2026
    The High Court has dismissed a judicial review by an Afghan national refused relocation under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy. The court held that the claimant did not make a substantive and positive contribution to UK national security objectives in Afghanistan. The case is STS v Secretary of State for Defence [2026] EWHC 363 […]
  • Upper Tribunal politely declines to hear the majority of immigration judicial reviews in Scotland 11 March 2026
    In R (on the application of EB) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Scotland; Transfer of claims) [2025] UKUT 412 (IAC) the Upper Tribunal held that judicial reviews should only be transferred from the Court of Session in rare cases where the particular issues raised will benefit from the expertise of the Upper […]
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