Alison Harvey
@aliromah.bsky.social
Barrister One Pump Court Chambers. Frome. London. Trustee of Kalayaan. Tweeting personal views on rule of law, nationality, immigration, asylum, Court of Protection, passion & whimsy. Views my own. Unafraid.
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@ninaca.bsky.social analyses how radical-right influence is driving a three-phase tightening of Finland’s naturalisation regime 🇫🇮
A shift that signals a harsher, more exclusionary model of Nordic citizenship across the region 🔍
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@ninaca.bsky.social analyses how radical-right influence is driving a three-phase tightening of Finland’s naturalisation regime 🇫🇮
A shift that signals a harsher, more exclusionary model of Nordic citizenship across the region 🔍
Read 📖 shorturl.at/md5zK
Restrictive citizenship reform in Finland in three acts: a paradigm shift driven by the radical right? - Globalcit
This blog post discusses the ongoing restrictive changes to naturalisation policy in Finland. It links these policy changes to domestic and regional political dynamics, both of which involve the radic...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New Blog Alert 📣
@ninaca.bsky.social analyses how radical-right influence is driving a three-phase tightening of Finland’s naturalisation regime 🇫🇮
A shift that signals a harsher, more exclusionary model of Nordic citizenship across the region 🔍
Read 📖 shorturl.at/md5zK
@ninaca.bsky.social analyses how radical-right influence is driving a three-phase tightening of Finland’s naturalisation regime 🇫🇮
A shift that signals a harsher, more exclusionary model of Nordic citizenship across the region 🔍
Read 📖 shorturl.at/md5zK
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Who cares? Migrant domestic workers and the cost of care
New episode of Mobility, Work and Rights #podcast
ft. Bridget Anderson @mmbuob.bsky.social, Rhacel Parrenas @rhacel.bsky.social, and Sabrina Marchetti
Hosts: @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social & me.
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New episode of Mobility, Work and Rights #podcast
ft. Bridget Anderson @mmbuob.bsky.social, Rhacel Parrenas @rhacel.bsky.social, and Sabrina Marchetti
Hosts: @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social & me.
Listen & Follow: open.spotify.com/episode/5NjS...
Who Cares? Migrant Domestic Workers and the Cost of Care
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November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Who cares? Migrant domestic workers and the cost of care
New episode of Mobility, Work and Rights #podcast
ft. Bridget Anderson @mmbuob.bsky.social, Rhacel Parrenas @rhacel.bsky.social, and Sabrina Marchetti
Hosts: @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social & me.
Listen & Follow: open.spotify.com/episode/5NjS...
New episode of Mobility, Work and Rights #podcast
ft. Bridget Anderson @mmbuob.bsky.social, Rhacel Parrenas @rhacel.bsky.social, and Sabrina Marchetti
Hosts: @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social & me.
Listen & Follow: open.spotify.com/episode/5NjS...
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The reality today is that only 8% of the countryside is open to public access, and only 3% of our rivers, with around 20 million people living more than 15 minutes from access to nature. Access under CRoW is a postcode lottery, with over 100 constituencies left with no access land at all.
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The reality today is that only 8% of the countryside is open to public access, and only 3% of our rivers, with around 20 million people living more than 15 minutes from access to nature. Access under CRoW is a postcode lottery, with over 100 constituencies left with no access land at all.
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FT seasonal appeal: why financial education has never been more crucial on.ft.com/48gkm0a
FT seasonal appeal: why financial education has never been more crucial
Experian will match-fund reader donations to bring FLIC’s financial literacy to more people
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November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
FT seasonal appeal: why financial education has never been more crucial on.ft.com/48gkm0a
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New post
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
Proposals for radical reform of the UK’s asylum system raise a number of legal and constitutional issues, with respect both to the European Convention on Human Rights and the domestic principle of …
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November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
New post
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
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Very far from the first time. Multiple findings of breaches of Article 3 in immigration detention. See my comment on the post for links. Not to mention the cases the Home Office conceded & paid damages on, including where disclosure is prohibited by the terms of the settlement.
The justice secretary David Lammy and his predecessor Shabana Mahmood were found by the High Court yesterday to have breached article 3 of the human rights convention, which prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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Inhuman treatment
High Court finds unprecedented breach of article 3 by home secretary
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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Very far from the first time. Multiple findings of breaches of Article 3 in immigration detention. See my comment on the post for links. Not to mention the cases the Home Office conceded & paid damages on, including where disclosure is prohibited by the terms of the settlement.
1999 Standing Committee Immigration & Asylum Bill. Govt asked if it expected refugees to sell their wedding rings? Said yes. Asked about gold filings from their teeth. www.theguardian.com/world/1999/j...
Give us your watches
Mike O'Brien: 'Many asylum seekers come from communities where wealth may be stored in jewellery or other financial bonds - and it is right for us to take account of that wealth.'
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November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
1999 Standing Committee Immigration & Asylum Bill. Govt asked if it expected refugees to sell their wedding rings? Said yes. Asked about gold filings from their teeth. www.theguardian.com/world/1999/j...
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Pleased to have taken part (online) in this workshop on a model law on nationality being debated by the Pan-African Parliament Committee on Cooperation and African stateholders - a key text for the implementation of the protocol on the eradication fo #statelessness pap.au.int/en/news/pres...
Continental Consultation Meeting on the Model Law on the Right to Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness Kicks Off in Pretoria
The Continental Consultation Meeting, organized in collaboration with UNHCR, commenced today in Pretoria.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Pleased to have taken part (online) in this workshop on a model law on nationality being debated by the Pan-African Parliament Committee on Cooperation and African stateholders - a key text for the implementation of the protocol on the eradication fo #statelessness pap.au.int/en/news/pres...
Labour did it once before. Because it is the only way to protect domestic workers romm exploitation. Do it again. The numbers are small, the (global) impact massive.
Incredibly grateful for B. Hamwee for tabling an amendment to the Border Security, Immigration & Asylum Bill to make sure migrant domestic workers have protections as workers
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October 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Labour did it once before. Because it is the only way to protect domestic workers romm exploitation. Do it again. The numbers are small, the (global) impact massive.
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The government has a flagship Employment Rights Bill in parliament and has committed to make work pay. Passing this amendment would be such an important step to making sure rights are accessible to migrant domestic workers in practice. Its time to listen to domestic workers about what works for them
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The government has a flagship Employment Rights Bill in parliament and has committed to make work pay. Passing this amendment would be such an important step to making sure rights are accessible to migrant domestic workers in practice. Its time to listen to domestic workers about what works for them
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New from FM: What does the new law on deprivation of British citizenship do? | Sonia Lenegan
What does the new law on deprivation of British citizenship do? - Free Movement
The Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Act 2025 received Royal Assent on Monday this week. I wrote up the Bill when first introduced and
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October 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New from FM: What does the new law on deprivation of British citizenship do? | Sonia Lenegan
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Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities
Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights…
Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights…
Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities
Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities (Bloomsbury, 2025, 167 pp, hardback / ebook, £81.00 / £64.80) I should start this review with a confession. I asked to be provided with this book for review out of a slight sense of duty, so as to keep myself abreast of the literature in this area.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities
Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights…
Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights…
Link to judgment in The King v Soldier F [2025] NICC 30
"[206] Soldiers G, H, F and E were part of the initial group of soldiers who entered the square and were responsible for the deaths and woundings. They had totally lost all sense of military discipline".
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"[206] Soldiers G, H, F and E were part of the initial group of soldiers who entered the square and were responsible for the deaths and woundings. They had totally lost all sense of military discipline".
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October 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Link to judgment in The King v Soldier F [2025] NICC 30
"[206] Soldiers G, H, F and E were part of the initial group of soldiers who entered the square and were responsible for the deaths and woundings. They had totally lost all sense of military discipline".
www.judiciaryni.uk/files/judici...
"[206] Soldiers G, H, F and E were part of the initial group of soldiers who entered the square and were responsible for the deaths and woundings. They had totally lost all sense of military discipline".
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Don't miss our free webinar next Wednesday! Hear Rachel Francis and James Anthony Shaw provide an overview of post-placement and post-adoption contact, key issues in practice and relevant case law.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Don't miss our free webinar next Wednesday! Hear Rachel Francis and James Anthony Shaw provide an overview of post-placement and post-adoption contact, key issues in practice and relevant case law.
Secure your place now > www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-aut...
Secure your place now > www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-aut...
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New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d
When is a refugee not a refugee? — Refugee History.
England’s ‘proud history’ of welcoming refugees is regularly invoked in contemporary debates about refugees in Britain. Public and academic histories of pre-modern migration to England support this no...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d
Palestine Action can challenge proscription. Removing it from the list of proscribed organisations would not produce an equivalent result (e.g.or those charged for supporting a proscribed organisation.
Court of Appeal judgment in the Palestine Action case is at www.judiciary.uk/judgments/am...
Great job by all the other lawyers involved. Sterling job.
Great job by all the other lawyers involved. Sterling job.
Ammori -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Neutral citation number: [2025] EWCA Civ 1311 Case number: CA-2025-001983 In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division)On appeal from the High Court of JusticeKing’s Bench DivisionAdministrative CourtThe Ho...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Palestine Action can challenge proscription. Removing it from the list of proscribed organisations would not produce an equivalent result (e.g.or those charged for supporting a proscribed organisation.
"Vilifying lawyers puts them at risk" @thebarcouncil.bsky.social Faculty of Advocates & the law societies. "Lawyers should never suffer adverse consequences because they are identified with their clients or their clients’ causes. Lawyers are not their clients" www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/vil...
Vilifying lawyers puts them at risk
The Bars, Faculty and Law Societies in the UK have come together and accused politicians of "irresponsible and dangerous" language that is putting lawyers at risk.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Vilifying lawyers puts them at risk" @thebarcouncil.bsky.social Faculty of Advocates & the law societies. "Lawyers should never suffer adverse consequences because they are identified with their clients or their clients’ causes. Lawyers are not their clients" www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/vil...
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39 Essex Chambers October 2025 Mental Capacity Report and walkthrough
Welcome to the October 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: time-specificity of capacity (again), a Welsh primer on key caselaw and urban myths…
Welcome to the October 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: time-specificity of capacity (again), a Welsh primer on key caselaw and urban myths…
39 Essex Chambers October 2025 Mental Capacity Report and walkthrough
Welcome to the October 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: time-specificity of capacity (again), a Welsh primer on key caselaw and urban myths around s.4B MCA 2005; In the Property and Affairs Report: two guest articles from new members of the Court of Protection on attorney elephant traps;
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October 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
39 Essex Chambers October 2025 Mental Capacity Report and walkthrough
Welcome to the October 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: time-specificity of capacity (again), a Welsh primer on key caselaw and urban myths…
Welcome to the October 2025 Mental Capacity Report. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: time-specificity of capacity (again), a Welsh primer on key caselaw and urban myths…
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I have just found udm14.com which gives access to Google searches without the AI overview (and details of more complex ways to achieve the same thing).
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
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October 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I have just found udm14.com which gives access to Google searches without the AI overview (and details of more complex ways to achieve the same thing).
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New UT(IAC) President appointed: Mr Justice Lavender
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President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal: Mr Justice Lavender - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
The Senior President of Tribunals, Lord Justice Dingemans, has appointed the Honourable Mr Justice Lavender to be the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal with effect ...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New UT(IAC) President appointed: Mr Justice Lavender
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Motability, contracts and deputies
[I set out here a press release from the Office of the Public Guardian - the 'clarification' relates to a consent order, rather than a judgment. If / when the consent order is made public I will add it to this page] On 18 July 2025, the Court of Protection…
[I set out here a press release from the Office of the Public Guardian - the 'clarification' relates to a consent order, rather than a judgment. If / when the consent order is made public I will add it to this page] On 18 July 2025, the Court of Protection…
Motability, contracts and deputies
[I set out here a press release from the Office of the Public Guardian - the 'clarification' relates to a consent order, rather than a judgment. If / when the consent order is made public I will add it to this page] On 18 July 2025, the Court of Protection clarified how vehicle contracts under the Motability Scheme should be handled when arranged by a deputy.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Motability, contracts and deputies
[I set out here a press release from the Office of the Public Guardian - the 'clarification' relates to a consent order, rather than a judgment. If / when the consent order is made public I will add it to this page] On 18 July 2025, the Court of Protection…
[I set out here a press release from the Office of the Public Guardian - the 'clarification' relates to a consent order, rather than a judgment. If / when the consent order is made public I will add it to this page] On 18 July 2025, the Court of Protection…
Delighted to see the publication by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social of Professor Catherine Briddick's Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception
Undoing Discrimination in Migration Law global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Undoing Discrimination in Migration Law global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Delighted to see the publication by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social of Professor Catherine Briddick's Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception
Undoing Discrimination in Migration Law global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Undoing Discrimination in Migration Law global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Misleading image - cuts off just after 75%. Ignore title - look at how many Reform voters DON'T think ILR should be stripped from particular groups (& how many Green/Lib Dem Labour voters do). 20 years of residence works some magic. Lack of support for severely disabled (framed as "who cannot work")
The majority of Reform UK voters would see indefinite leave to remain removed from all of the groups we asked about, apart from those who have lived in the UK for 20+ years
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October 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Misleading image - cuts off just after 75%. Ignore title - look at how many Reform voters DON'T think ILR should be stripped from particular groups (& how many Green/Lib Dem Labour voters do). 20 years of residence works some magic. Lack of support for severely disabled (framed as "who cannot work")
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New from Free Movement: Job Ad: Immigration & Nationality Solicitor at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP | Free Movement freemovement.org.uk/job-ad-immig...
Job Ad: Immigration & Nationality Solicitor at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP - Free Movement
Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP is a top-ranked specialist firm in UK immigration and nationality law, consistently recognised by The Legal 500, Chambers and
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September 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
New from Free Movement: Job Ad: Immigration & Nationality Solicitor at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP | Free Movement freemovement.org.uk/job-ad-immig...