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The Migrants' Law Project

A legal and public legal education project, hosted by Islington Law Centre.

  • About The MLP
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    • Safe Passage International v SSHD [2021]
    • Family reunion, including for separated children in camps in Europe
    • Adult Dependent Relatives Rule
    • Asylum Support Rates – Refugee Action
    • Delays to Section 4 Support for destitute asylum seekers – MK and AH vs SSHD [2012]
    • Detained Fast Track – Detention Action
    • Removals to Greece – NS (Saeedi) [2011]
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    • Basic principles of asylum and immigration law
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    • Family reunion – Dublin III
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Asylum Support Rates

The MLP represented Refugee Action in a challenge to the rate at which financial support is paid to asylum seekers to meet their essential living needs under Section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Judgment
The case was heard in in February 2014, and judgement was handed down on 9th April 2014, ruling that the Home Secretary had acted ‘irrationally’ in setting support rates. The Home Office was ordered to recalculate the rates at which asylum support is set, and in August 2014 released new rates which had no substantive increase.

The full judgment can be found here

Guidance
Briefing notes for practitioners can be found here

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