The UK’s Immigration and Asylum Bill Has Cleared Committee. It Would Merge Refugee Status and Humanitarian Protection and Move Appeals to a New Body.
The bill finished its committee stage in the House of Commons on 3 November 2026 and now goes to report stage. It would replace refugee status and humanitarian protection with a single protection status and move asylum appeals to a new Independent Immigration Appeals Authority. It is not law.
A Commons Committee Rejected Plans to Disapply the Human Rights Act in Removal Cases. The Minister Said Britain Is “Rightly Obliged” Not to Return People to Torture.
On 3 November 2026 the committee scrutinising the Immigration and Asylum Bill voted down four Conservative new clauses, among them one that would have stopped the courts from treating the removal of refugees regarded as dangerous as unlawful under the Human Rights Act. The minister told the committee that the United Kingdom is “rightly obliged not to send them back to face death or torture”.
The European Court Will Rule on 24 November on the Summary Returns at the Belarusian Border
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will deliver its rulings in three cases against Poland, Latvia and Lithuania at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday, 24 November 2026. The Polish case, until now R.A. and Others v. Poland, has been renamed A.R. and Others v. Poland.
Germany Sent 40 More Men to Kabul on 28 October. Its Interior Minister Calls Returns to Afghanistan a Regular Part of Policy.
A charter flight from Leipzig/Halle landed in Kabul on 28 October 2026 with 40 Afghan men who, the Federal Interior Ministry says, had all committed criminal offences. The ministry counts 303 Afghan men removed to Afghanistan since the current legislative term began.
Two Advocates General Have Advised the Court of Justice on Italy’s Centres in Albania. The Court Has Not Yet Ruled.
In opinions of 23 April and 11 June 2026, two Advocates General told the Court of Justice of the European Union that EU law does not in principle prevent Italy from holding people in centres in Albania. The second opinion proposes that the Court find several features of the arrangement incompatible with EU law. No judgment has been delivered.
Court and administrative decisions
Decided by courts and bodies in Europe, latest first.
- I.A. and Others v. PolandEuropean Court of Human Rights · December 4, 2025
- Alace and CanpelliCourt of Justice of the European Union · August 1, 2025
- S.S. and Others v. ItalyEuropean Court of Human Rights · May 20, 2025
- D8 v Secretary of State for the Home DepartmentCourt of Appeal of England and Wales · January 22, 2025
- Sherov and Others v. PolandEuropean Court of Human Rights · April 4, 2024