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There has been a series of challenges to the lawfulness of the Government’s Points Based System since the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Pankina (2010) EWCA Civ 719, (2010) 3 WLR 1526 which came out in June of 2010.  Most recently, as noted on Gherson on 19 […]

Two senior judges have ruled that the interim cap on applications under Tiers 1 and 2 of the Points Based System was unlawful. The interim cap, which was intended to be the precursor to the permanent cap which is to be imposed next April (2011) was meant to have been in force since last summer. […]

The Government’s Migration Advisory Committee (the MAC) has published its report entitled “Limits on Migration: Limits on Tier 1 and Tier 2 for 2011/12 and supporting policies.”  The MAC describes itself as “a non-departmental public body comprised of economists and migration experts which provides transparent, independent and evidence-based advice to the Government on migration issues.”  […]