Shoddy Home Office is not enforcing immigration rules consistently

[joebloggs]

they've done this for a while, especially if they think they will lose the case after all about 1/3rd of appeals are won

Today we reveal the Home Office doesn’t bother to send a representative to many appeal hearings.



read more here .. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/star-says/348844/Shoddy-Home-Office-is-not-enforcing-immigration-rules-consistently

[grahamw48]

It used to be much the same at the Dept. of Employment when I was there.

I worked on the 'Appeals' section. Too expensive.

[joebloggs]

the real reason :NoNo:

It has become increasingly common for UKBA to concede a case before it reaches court. This avoids UKBA having to pay for Counsel to attend a hearing, enables Ministers to bang on about how few immigration judicial reviews are successful at court (only because UKBA concede so many cases after they have been lodged but before they go to court!) and, at its worst, it manipulates the justice system so that only the weakest cases go forward to become precedents. It also forces claimants to go to the expense of lodging claims and instructing lawyers, only for UKBA to concede the case late when it could and should have been conceded early. It is abusive behaviour by the UK Border Agency.

http://www.freemovement.org.uk/2011/07/27/important-new-case-on-costs/

[Terpe]

Totally agree.
And it is abusive.

Fairly typical of large government agencies and departments that the individual people working the cases and taking decisions are emotionally remote from the scale of their decisions and how real lives of real people can be so impacted.

[grahamw48]

Except at the dole office, where they'd come and yell at us, or leave their kids at the counter, tell US to feed them, and walk out. :icon_lol: