Legislative Scrutiny: Immigration Bill (Second Report)

Human Rights Joint Committee - Twelfth Report
Legislative Scrutiny: Immigration Bill (Second Report)

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 26 February 2014.

Contents

2 Deprivation of UK citizenship

Background

The rights at stake

Exercises of the power to deprive

Urgency

Compatibility with the UK's international obligations on statelessness

Intended scope and purpose of the power

Applicability of the ECHR

Impact on children and dependants

Differential treatment of naturalised citizens

"In accordance with law"

Legal certainty in the definition of the relevant conduct

Adequacy of safeguards against arbitrariness

Retrospectivity

Fair hearing

Access to a practical and effective remedy

3 Follow up to first Report

Removal powers (clause 1)

Effective access to justice (clauses 11-14)

Removal of appeal rights and the right of effective access to court

Limits on Tribunal's powers to consider "new matters"

Out of country human rights appeals

Public interest considerations in Article 8 claims

Access to services

Access to residential tenancies

Access to health services

Sham marriages/civil partnerships

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Declaration of Lords' Interests

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament