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19 May 2011 Press Statement
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- BID letter in the Guardian on the need to respect human rights for foreign national ex-offenders
- BID raises concerns about new HMIP approach to immigration detention inspections
- BID intervenes in Home Office challenge to limit private law claim for unlawful detention
- Former client of BID granted refugee status
- Former IAS clients - how to obtain files and original documents from the administrator. There is a deadline of 28th May 2012 for retrieval.
- Discriminatory attempt to use criminal justice provision to effect immigration control in Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill
- NEW BID Travel Document Project briefing on 'Cooperation & Removability', including practical steps, and criminal sanctions (s35 prosecutions) and 'reasonable excuse'
- Bailed detainees - how to make an application for S4 bail accommodation and support once released if a private accommodation arrangement breaks down
- NEW leaflet 'Accomodation and Financial Support on Release' for detainees, from BID and the Ex-Detainee Project at Dover Detainee Visitor Group
- ILPA & BID joint response to consultation on new bail guidance for immigration judges
- Prisons Inspector criticises UK Border Agency for holding too many pregnant women in detention
- New LSC legal surgery rotas available here
- Inspectorate report on UKBA and foreign national ex-offenders
- Refugee Children's Consortium briefing - current situation around immigration detention of children & the new family returns process, Sept 16th 2011
- Latest (2011) version of UKBA's Emergency Travel Document timescales and requirements now available to download from BID website
- Superceded 2003 bail guidance for adjudicators along with timeline of use - for reference
- Link to urgent advice for clients of IAS (Immigration Advisory Service) from the administrator
- Revised immigration bail guidance for immigration judges released by President of the First Tier Tribunal of the Immigration & Asylum Chamber.
- Latest BID & ICAR survey finds detainees now less aware of the free 30 minutes legal advice scheme in IRCs, and 32% of those using the DDA scheme wait one week or more for appointment
- UKBA's Emergency Travel Document timescales and requirements now available to download from BID website (2010 version)
- Judgment handed down on unlawful detention of foreign national ex-offender after the Home Office failed to carry out regular detention reviews as required - SK (Zimbabwe) v SSHD
- BID has published new research on detention of children
- UKBA have disclosed the 2010 Returns Group Documentation Unit (RGDU) ETD Country Reference Guide after a BID FOI request
- BID now on Twitter - follow BID's work and news from the world of detention
- BID's comments to Independent Chief Inspector of UKBA on forthcoming joint and thematic inspections - immigration casework and Detained Fast Track
- Outcry! partnership between BID and The Children's Society on child detention comes to an end
- BID is looking for new Trustees to join our Board - Treasurer post, and people with fundraising & communications experience
- Judgment handed down on unlawful detention of mother separated from her children
- BID needs a Media & Communications volunteer for our research and policy office in London. Contact us now!
- New podcast from Harriet Grant for The Guardian on the detention of foreign national ex-offenders
- BID publishes a new bulletin 'The right to legal aid for bail applications'
- BID & ICAR survey shows 19% of detainees interviewed never had any legal advice while in detention
- OutCry! response to Nick Clegg's announcement on the detention of children
- BID is the 2010 winner of the JUSTICE Human Rights Award
- Outcry! briefing outlining concern about new proposed methods of forcibly removing families
- BID & ICAR new survey on level of legal representation among detainees across the detention estate Nov 2010
- New BID bulletin on Section 4 applications for bail accommodation November 2010
- Immigration detainees failed by bail process - new BID report
- BID and The Children's Society comment on child detention figures