Macdonald's Immigration Law and Practice, 10th Edition

The eagerly awaited 10th edition of Macdonald's Immigration Law & Practice provides detailed coverage of all aspects of UK Immigration, Asylum and Nationality legislation. The book is the leading work in this area of law, now available in a user friendly format, offering commentary, supporting legislation and case law. Ensuring that practitioners are kept up to date on the recent major changes in immigration law, such as the impact of Brexit for EEA nationals and the latest on UK immigration and asylum law.

What's new:

• the impact of Brexit on EEA and Swiss citizens and their family members, including the EU Settlement Scheme, the Withdrawal Agreement, and the ending of EEA free movement rights
• the impact of Brexit across multiple areas of immigration law, including asylum law, Dublin returns, human trafficking, the common travel area and the position of Irish citizens in immigration law
• all significant developments in refugee and protection law, including developments in the law relating to cessation and exclusion; the approach to the evaluation of evidence, particularly expert medical and country evidence and the impact of Brexit
• the effect of the 28 statements of changes to the immigration rules since the last edition, including the new post-Brexit Points Based System for workers and students, the new general grounds for refusal and the new visitor rules
• the effects of the ‘hostile environment’ under the Immigration Acts 2014 and 2016
• the major changes to the application of Article 8 of the ECHR following its statutory codification by Part 5A of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and a series of landmark judgments in the Supreme Court
• the impact of the Supreme Court judgment in AM (Zimbabwe) on Article 3
• the development of immigration judicial review particularly associated with the loss of appeal rights
• hundreds of decisions from the ECtHR, the CJEU, the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Administrative Court and Upper Tribunal
• developments in the law relating to detention under the Immigration Acts; bail under Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016; the Adults at Risk Statutory Guidance and policy under Immigration Act 2016, s. 59 and recent Supreme Court cases on the detention and bail powers
• the operation of the appeals system, including the transitional arrangements for EEA appeals, the new appeal rights for EU Settlement Scheme applicants and frontier workers and developments in appeal practice and procedure
• developments in the courts’ and tribunals’ jurisprudence, including more than 30 decisions of the Supreme Court dealing with the subject matter of the book