🧵Great news! 👏👏On day 2 Report Stage of the #NationalityandBordersBill yesterday, the @UKHouseofLords voted to defeat the Government 8 times, on several important counts, in order to👇: 1⃣Remove Clause 15 which would give the Home Secretary powers to deem a person’s #asylum claim ‘inadmissible’, denying them access to the asylum system unless there are exceptional circumstances, if they travelled through or had a connection to a ‘safe’ third country (221-172)

🧵👏: On day 1 Report Stage of the #NationalityandBordersBill yesterday, the House of Lords voted with compassion & defeated the Government in order to:
1⃣ Allow British nationality rights for descendants of Chagos Islanders denied #citizenship due to historic injustice (237:154) 2⃣Omit #Clause9 which would have given the Home Secretary sweeping powers to deprive people of British citizenship without giving them notice (209:173)

We're piloting a new project, the Strategic Legal Advice Committee (SLAC) and would love you to come to our free Strategic Litigation Myth-Busting launch event to hear more about it!

Details: Wed 23 March, 5-6.30pm on Zoom

Sign up here: bit.ly/36HFTTv

Speakers below! Our amazing panelists include: @SimonFRCox, @shushinluh, @MikeSpencerLaw, Sasha Rozansky of @dpg_law and Jean Demars of @publiclawcentre

This event is an opportunity to answer all the things you've ever wondered about #strategiclitigation but been afraid to ask.

A statement of changes to the Immigration Rules has been laid: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl….

The explanatory memorandum is here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…. These changes are said to implement the new agreement in relation to Northern Ireland, specifically with respect to family reunion.