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24 March 2017
Issue: 7739 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Immigration

R (on the application of OA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWHC 486 (Admin), [2017] All ER (D) 112 (Mar)

The Administrative Court allowed the claimant’s application for judicial review of the defendant secretary of state’s decision that his further submissions did not constitute a fresh claim, as it had failed to take into account material considerations and the conclusion was irrational. Further, the claimant had been unlawfully detained from 22 June until his release on 19 July 2016.

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NEWS
The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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