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Een Britse uitspraak is vaak een enorme lap tekst die je niet snel kunt scannen. Desalniettemin vind ik ze vergeleken bij Nederlandse uitspraken een stuk persoonlijker en begrijpelijker voor de partijen. Onderstaande uitspraak laat zien hoe mensen soms de pineut zijn van knullig handelende adviseurs en ambtenaren. The Claimants in this case are a brother and sister who are Indian nationals, who came to this country lawfully on student visas, which were later extended for post-study work leave in 2008. In 2010, the Claimants sought to extend those visas. The immigration advisor who acted for them failed to put in applications based on true facts, and unknown to the Claimants, put in claims based on fraudulent documents. The Claimants have therefore been badly let down by an immigration advisor who has since served a prison sentence for fraud. As I explain below, they have also been ill-served by the Home Office, which mishandled their case. As a result of the immigrat...

"Today there are two cases before this court which we will refer to by the initials "B" and "J". As will become apparent when we set out the facts, there were, in essence, two explanations for what had happened in these cases. The first explanation is that the lawyers concerned were competent in the area of immigration law, but put forward applications to the court which, being competent practitioners, they must have appreciated were applications supported by arguments that were nonsensical. The other explanation was that those lawyers putting forward these applications were not competent in the area of the law and put forward applications in ignorance of the law that showed the lawyers were incompetent. As a result of the hearing before us, it is clear that both cases fall within the second category, in that arguments that were nonsensical were put forward to the court by lawyers who did not have the degree of competence that is essential to pract...

Edgware refugee thanks UK with sculpture of the Queen 12:10pm Friday 3rd August 2012 in News By Emma Innes Ali's stone sculpture of the Queen. An Iranian refugee has spent four years creating a stone sculpture of the Queen as a way of expressing his gratitude to the UK for providing him with a safe haven. Ali, 37, who lives in Edgware, arrived in the UK in 2005 after fleeing persecution and torture in Iran. As a talented stonemason he decided that the way he could best show his gratitude to this country would be to create the sculpture of the Queen. Ali said: “What I went through in Iran made me feel useless and people did not respect me for who I was. “It is different here in the UK and I was shocked to find people apologising to me when I bumped into ...

Via via kwam ik dit tegen: Stop Bale being deported after 13 years serving British Armed Forces Petition published by isimeli Baleiwai on Jul 15, 2012 1974   Signatures   Target: Government Region: United Kingdom Web site: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/chri... Sign the petition Petition Background (Preamble): Isimeli Baleiwai known as 'Bale' to his friends is facing deportation from the UK after serving 13 years with the British Armed Forces. Bale is a foreign and commonwealth soldier from Fiji who was recruited by the MOD when he was 18. He has served in 5 operational tours including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. His wife Kim is British and they have two young children a boy of 3 and a girl of 6; both British. Bale voluntarily discharged from the Armed Forces on June 15th 2012 in order to provide stability for his family. He applie...