As has been widely reported today, the government has been defeated in judicial review challenge to the changes it made in 2006 to its highly-skilled migrant programme. Here’s the judgment.

It’s a classic legitimate expectation case, about […]

Last week I missed an interesting Administrative Court judgment on an important issue: whether the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke (gosh – doesn’t that seem a long time ago?) acted lawfully when, in April 2006, he announced in Parliament […]