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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: endorsed funders (Global Talent visa)
- Guidance: Powers and operational procedure: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: employing or hosting institutions (Global Talent visa)
- Guidance: Pakistan: country policy and information notes
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Guidance: Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and leaving care: funding instructions
- Guidance: Visitors and transit: customer service standards
- Guidance: Visa processing times: applications outside the UK
- Transparency data: Ukraine Visa Schemes: visa data
- Global Corporate Law
- Key Features of the Singapore Convention on Mediation
- What is the test for a ‘one man company’?
- LIBOR: The Final Nail in the Coffin?
- Banking and Misconduct: A Critique of the Cure of Culture
- Court of Appeal Opens the Door to LIBOR and Benchmark Misrepresentation Claims
- Habib Bank Expelled From New York
- Supreme Court: Equity’s Darling and Guidance on Enforceability of Trusts where the Institution is Unknown
- Conduct Costs on the Rise (2012-2016): No End in Sight
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court
- Immigration News
- Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. Will it actually work? | Sunder Katwala
- ‘If Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to join us’ … Was Natalie Elphicke’s defection a step too far for Labour?
- Home Office faces legal challenge over risk of lone children being sent to Rwanda
- ‘Self-defeating’: senior Tories warn Sunak against clampdown on international students
- Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK
- Labour government would halt Rwanda deportations from day one, Starmer says
- ‘Cringeworthy’: what people in Dover think of Labour and Keir Starmer – video
- Rebecca Hendin on small boats and the Eurovision song contest – cartoon
- ‘Hard truths’: how far will Starmer push to show Labour has changed?
- Home Office U-turn lets woman stay in UK with husband and son
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Tag Archives: Migrant Workers
An unlawful lacuna in policy is harming victims of trafficking
EOG (Anonymity Order Made) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWHC 3310 (Admin) (03 December 2020) Mostyn J has held that an unlawful lacuna in the government’s existing policy concerning the leave to remain of potential trafficking … Continue reading
Procedural fairness fails skilled migrant in Court of Appeal
R (Topadar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1525 The uncertain outcome in the Supreme Court in R (Pathan) v SSHD [2020] UKSC 41, discussed here, was swiftly put to the test in the case … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix Skilled Worker, Article 8, Bank Accounts, Court of Appeal, Employment, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, PBS, Procedural Fairness, Tier 2, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Migrant Workers, UK Supreme Court
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An Alternative to Brexit: The Judgment in Wightman
Wightman and Others v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (C-621/18, EU:C:2018:999, 10 December 2018) Brexit is a big mess. It is “a powerful acid” and is a huge economic and bureaucratic nightmare. Going through with it in … Continue reading
Posted in Brexit, Cases, CJEU, European Union, Free Movement, Judicial Review, Scotland, UKSC
Tagged Brexit, Case Law, Economy, European Union, Judicial Review, Migrant Workers, UK Supreme Court
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Scottish Perspectives on Paragraph 322(5) and ILR
Oji (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] CSOH 127 The petitioner, or claimant, Mr Collins Oji was a Nigerian national who applied for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) on 19 February 2016 along with his dependent … Continue reading
Brexit and the UK’s future immigration system
The spectre of crashing out of the EU without a deal is sending jitters across the UK. Events have clearly shown that holding a snap poll on immigration failed to do justice to the true merits of EU membership. Last … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Brexit, Citizens Directive, CJEU, ECHR, European Union, Immigration Rules, Politics, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKSC, Windrush, Working
Tagged 2004/38/EC, Article 8, Brexit, Criminal Offences, ECHR, Economy, European Union, Free Movement, Immigration Rules, Migrant Workers, Points Based System, Refugee Convention
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Brexit and Appendix EU: Changes to the Immigration Rules
In his recent opinion in R O (C‑327/18 PPU, EU:C:2018:644), Advocate General Szpunar lamented that “we know that we know next to nothing about the future legal relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. … Continue reading
Analysis: Immigration Act 2016
A hostile environment hitting wrongdoing from every angle has been in the making for a long time. The Immigration Act 2016 builds on the foundations laid by the “flagship” Immigration Act 2014. The public tends to view foreigners as stealing local … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Brexit, Children, Deportation, ECHR, Economy, Employment, Enforcement, European Union, Fees, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Act 2016, Islam, PBS, Public Interest, s 55 BCIA
Tagged 2004/38/EC, Asylum, Children, ECHR, Economy, European Union, Free Movement, Migrant Workers, Spouses
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Case Preview: Rahmatullah v MoD and FCO
Nabbed by British forces in Iraq – where he was seeking work – in 2004 only to be handed over to the Americans and rendered to Bagram Airbase, Yunus Rahmatullah, a Pakistani national who grew up in the Gulf, was … Continue reading
Deterring ‘Potential Extremists’: The BNA and the Scope of the Naturalisation Discretion
MM & GY & TY v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 3513 (Admin) (03 December 2015) This damaging decision for the British government was published immediately after David Cameron slanderously accused those opposed to expanding UK … Continue reading
Posted in Afghan War, Article 14, Article 3, Article 8, Citizenship and Nationality, ECHR, Human Rights Act, India, Islam, Judicial Review, Pakistan, Politics, Terrorism
Tagged Asylum, ECHR, Migrant Workers, Terrorism, UK Supreme Court
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MAC Skewers Tier 1 Entrepreneur Visas
The home secretary’s advisers – the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) – have found that the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa route under the Points-Based System (PBS) is being used by “low quality businesses”. MAC, which consists of a publicly appointed chairman … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix FM, Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Rules, PBS, Tier 1
Tagged Economy, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Rules, Investors, Migrant Workers, Points Based System
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New Punishments: Immigration Bill 2015
The onslaught continues. The Immigration Act 2014 promised to root out the ills of the system but now fresh legislation has been proposed to cure things even further and the home office recently announced a welter of new (improved) anti-immigrant … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Appeals, Article 8, Bank Accounts, ECHR, Economy, Employment, Enforcement, European Union, Human Rights Act, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Bill 2015, Judicial Review, Politics, Tribunals
Tagged Article 8, Business, ECHR, European Union, Migrant Workers, Pakistan, Tribunals
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Alvi Argument Betrays Work Permit Holder
R (Memon) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 205 (Admin) (06 February 2015) The Memons are a fiercely business-minded people who originate in the Sindh province of Pakistan and the Indian state of Gujarat. The … Continue reading
Posted in Alvi, Cases, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Pakistan, Work Permits
Tagged Immigration Rules, Migrant Workers, Pankina, UK Supreme Court
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Defence of Illegality Inapplicable to Trafficked Nigerian Woman’s Discrimination Claim Says Supreme Court
Hounga v Allen & Anor [2014] UKSC 47 (30 July 2014) “A small claim generates an important point”, said the Supreme Court in this intriguing case regarding the circumstances in which the defence of illegality should defeat a complaint by … Continue reading
Court of Appeal on Children’s Duty
EV (Philippines) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department (SSHD) [2014] EWCA Civ 874 (26 June 2014) The Court of Appeal (Jackson, Lewison & Christopher Clarke LJJ) went for overkill in this case about the best interests … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Children, Court of Appeal, Hale JSC, s 55 BCIA, Tier 2
Tagged Article 8, Children, Immigration Rules, Migrant Workers, Tribunals
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Immigration Minister’s speech
The Immigration Minister Mr Damian Green has made a rather long-winded speech on the government’s plans to reform the immigration rules in order to achieve a “sustainable” immigration policy for Britain. The full text of the minister’s speech is available … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Immigration Rules, PBS, Post Study Work, Settlement
Tagged Article 8, Migrant Workers, Points Based System
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The Tier 2 (General) sponsorship licence interview
The situation in relation to sponsoring migrants to work in the UK is quite tense and the government seems hell-bent on marching on with its mad cap. Although the government has expressed its disregard for the law I just wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in PBS, Tier 2, UKBA, Working
Tagged Migrant Workers, Points Based System, UKBA
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Government’s response to lost PBS review
The government has already started to whip up its rhetoric by talking tough in the face of its defeat in the High Court yesterday. Immigration Minister Damian Green has said that the “judgment will have no impact on the permanent … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration Cap, Immigration Rules, PBS, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKBA, Working
Tagged Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Migrant Workers, Points Based System, UKBA
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UKBA raids restaurants
Just as I just predicted yesterday restaurants are going to be tackled quite aggressively by the UKBA post the agency’s revised summary guidance announcement (and of course there’s the infamous immigration cap). Loads more arrests will follow no doubt. But these are … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Enforcement, Immigration Cap, Immigration Law, Working
Tagged Illegal Working, Migrant Workers, UKBA
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