Month: March 2023

[ad_1] Yesterday’s Spring Budget 2023 indicated upcoming changes to the business visitor visa requirements and the addition of construction workers to the Shortage Occupation List. Additional support for

[ad_1] In case you missed it, you can watch me and Sonia discussing the Illegal Migration Bill over the course of an hour. We recorded this as a

[ad_1] Yesterday, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment dealing with applications for permission to appeal on grounds refused by the High Court. An annex to yesterday’s

[ad_1] This month Sonia and I talk a bit about denaturalisation generally and the case of Shamima Begum specifically, we cover the new streamlined asylum process and a

[ad_1] On 15 February 2023, the High Court yet again found that the Secretary of State’s policy prohibiting migrants from accessing mainstream welfare benefits was unlawful. The policy,

[ad_1] In so far as lawyers ever enjoyed ‘celebrity’, the late Victorian and Edwardian era now brings to mind the stars of the bar – men like FE

[ad_1] As the House of Common’s second reading of the Illegal Migration Bill takes place today, this post looks at the detention provisions in clauses 11-14 and what

[ad_1] Every defendant lawyer knows the standard of proof is the greatest shield in court. In civil trials, the standard is the balance of probabilities – that is,

[ad_1] Charles Ayodemiji Ewan Application 12376-2022 Admitted 1998 Hearing 19 December 2022 Reasons 11 January 2023 The SDT ordered that the respondent should pay a fine of £10,000.

[ad_1] Practice Direction 57AC has now been in force for almost two years. Its aim was to eradicate the practice of lawyers creating lengthy, document-heavy witness statements as