Nik Love-Gittins

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A young seagull peering through a window 3 floors up
Convict wolf character from Droopy cartoons in the 50s
Warwick castle
Mileships book by Ian McQue and Jim Rossignol
How often does the European Court of Human Rights rule against the UK in removal cases? The European Court of Human Rights has seldom ruled against the UK government in relation to the removal of people from the UK. Indeed, the Court rarely rules against the UK at all. It issued only one final judgment finding a violation of an ECHR right in a UK case in 2023 and one in 2024. Neither concerned immigration policy or deportation. Since 1980, there have been 29 UK cases at the Court that have concerned either deportation (enforced removal of a foreign national) or extradition (removal of a person to another country for trial or to serve a sentence). In 16 of these cases, the Court found that a planned deportation or extradition by the UK government would not breach the Convention and could go ahead. For example, in 2017, the Court held that the UK government’s decision to deport a Nigerian national who had lived in the UK since he was two years old did not violate the Convention: the individual’s long history of offending and the government’s legitimate interest of preventing disorder and crime outweighed the applicant’s Article 8 rights. In the other 13 cases, the Court found that deportation or extradition by the UK government would violate the Convention and should not go ahead. This means that, on average, judgments of the European Court of Human Rights prevented removal of a foreign national only once every 4.5 years. Four of these cases concerned the right to family life. For example, in its most recent finding of a violation relating to a UK deportation decision in 2020, the Court ruled that a Nigerian man who had been convicted of falsifying immigration documents could not be deported because it ran counter to the interests of his three young and financially-dependent children, all of whom were British citizens, and one of whom needed heart surgery. The other nine cases concerned deportation or extradition to countries where there was a substantial risk th…
New figures show there were 32,059 asylum seekers in UK hotels at the end of June, up 8% on the same point 12 months ago. Although higher than a year ago, the total is slightly down on the previous quarter - and well down on the peak of 56,042 in September 2023.
The 'This is fine' meme, but with a pile of money on the table rather than a coffee cup
Members of New wave band ‘The Jam’ wearing jackets made from Union Jack flags
Man in a black suit and white mask, smiling like a serial killer and with an enormous phallic nose