Archive: April 2025

Free Movement

In an article for Free Movement, available here, Niamh Fegan summarises the key changes within the new Iran Country policy and information note on social media surveillance and sur place activities. She discusses how the changes might impact the Home Office’s assessment of certain asylum claims. The article can be read here.

V v V & Anor [2025] EWHC 945 (Fam) (16 April 2025)

[2025] EWHC 945 Dr Charlotte Proudman represented a mother, a victim of rape, abuse, and coercive and controlling behaviour, in an application to the Court of Appeal to bar a staying order with overnight contact between her young daughter and the rapist father. The mother and father began a ‘sexual relationship’ when she was 15 […]

Free Movement

Katherine Soroya has written for Free Movement providing updated guidance on the further submissions process in immigration cases. The article considers common problems and how to tackle them, explores the findings of a recent UNHCR report  and covers the relevant legal tests in these applications.

Dr Charlotte Proudman represents rape victim who won family court first

This precedent-setting judgment granted Ms M, a survivor of rape and abuse, permission to publish media articles and speak at events about her experiences of the family justice system and domestic abuse, provided she used an alias to protect the anonymity of her child, C. The judgment emphasised the weight and importance of Ms M’s rights under […]

 

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