Helena Wray
@helenaw.bsky.social
Immigration law academic at University of Exeter. Also, books, music, films, life.
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There will not be a single neutral lawyer in the country who will read this and be comfortable with what the Supreme Court has done.
An exceptional analysis of some of the 🤯 errors in the Supreme Court Judgment.
Something has gone very wrong indeed.
(Published by kind permission of @translegalproject.bsky.social). goodlaw.social/nid3
Something has gone very wrong indeed.
(Published by kind permission of @translegalproject.bsky.social). goodlaw.social/nid3
For Women Scotland: a legal critique | Good Law Project
April’s Supreme Court decision is being treated as the final word. But the judgment has introduced considerable uncertainty to the law, and some parts appear to set back the rights of trans people by ...
goodlaw.social
April 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
There will not be a single neutral lawyer in the country who will read this and be comfortable with what the Supreme Court has done.
Reposted by Helena Wray
Call for Papers Alert:
We're organising an academic workshop on the Legal World of Family Migration. This call aims to begin a discussion of the characteristics and dynamics of this legal world and the use of law and legality in family migration.
brexitcouples.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
We're organising an academic workshop on the Legal World of Family Migration. This call aims to begin a discussion of the characteristics and dynamics of this legal world and the use of law and legality in family migration.
brexitcouples.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: The Legal World of Family Migration – UK-EU Couples After Brexit
brexitcouples.ac.uk
April 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Call for Papers Alert:
We're organising an academic workshop on the Legal World of Family Migration. This call aims to begin a discussion of the characteristics and dynamics of this legal world and the use of law and legality in family migration.
brexitcouples.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
We're organising an academic workshop on the Legal World of Family Migration. This call aims to begin a discussion of the characteristics and dynamics of this legal world and the use of law and legality in family migration.
brexitcouples.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
Minimum Income Requirements continue to rip families apart, leave children without a parent, and destroy lives. No-one should be forced to see their family split up based on how much they earn.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
'I don't earn enough money for family to be together - my son calls for his dad'
Jade Binmuda, her partner Thanawut Sriyaemwong, and their two children had hoped to settle back in the UK after falling in love and starting a family in Thailand
www.mirror.co.uk
February 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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‘Refugees will often have shown great courage, fortitude and ingenuity in the face of the obstacles placed in their way. Showing such virtues in order to escape oppression is not normally seen as evidence of bad character, rather the contrary.’
Christopher Bertram: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Christopher Bertram: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Christopher Bertram | Bad Character
There is a troubling disconnect between the deterrent rationale and the mechanism that will be used to deny citizenship...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘Refugees will often have shown great courage, fortitude and ingenuity in the face of the obstacles placed in their way. Showing such virtues in order to escape oppression is not normally seen as evidence of bad character, rather the contrary.’
Christopher Bertram: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Christopher Bertram: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
This should be a national scandal. Families are ripped apart because the UK partner is a care worker, a teaching assistant, a PhD student, or has caring responsibilities
'This policy is destroying us. It’s saying that only the rich can fall in love with someone abroad.'
UK is one of the worst countries in the world for family reunion. By @diane-writer10.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
UK is one of the worst countries in the world for family reunion. By @diane-writer10.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
UK visa income test ‘cruel’ barrier to family reunions, says charity
Charity says thousands of children separated from one of their parents this Christmas are hidden victims of visa rules
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 7:54 PM
This should be a national scandal. Families are ripped apart because the UK partner is a care worker, a teaching assistant, a PhD student, or has caring responsibilities
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‘The UK already has the second-most restrictive family immigration regime in Europe, if not the world’ even before the new staggering increase, with a devastating impact on families since the threshold was raised in 2012 - Katherine Charsley & @helenaw.bsky.social theconversation.com/just-the-ric...
'Just the rich can do it': our research shows how immigration income requirements devastate families
The new proposals will be devastating to any British citizen who falls in love with a foreign partner.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2023 at 8:33 AM
‘The UK already has the second-most restrictive family immigration regime in Europe, if not the world’ even before the new staggering increase, with a devastating impact on families since the threshold was raised in 2012 - Katherine Charsley & @helenaw.bsky.social theconversation.com/just-the-ric...