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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: Russia
Emerging Trends in Investor Visas
Despite Donald J Trump’s best efforts to appease the Kremlin, relations could not be any worse between Russia and the West. The full reach of Moscow’s meddling is obvious from the fact that Arron Banks, Brexit’s bankroller, has rather nefarious … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix V, Brexit, Business, Economy, Entry Clearance, European Union, Immigration Rules, Investors, Israel, Palestine, PBS, Politics, Settlement, Tier 1
Tagged Brexit, Business, Immigration Rules, Points Based System, Russia
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Illegitimacy and Denial of Nationality at Birth: No Retrospective Application of Human Rights Act
R (Johnson) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 22 (26 January 2016) In yet another a win for the home office, the Court of Appeal (Arden, Laws and Lindblom LJJ) found no violation of … Continue reading
Tier 1 Investor Visas ‘Not Fit For Purpose’
According to Professor David Metcalf OBE, Tier 1 (Investor) visas are “absolutely not fit for purpose” and he said the UK derives “absolutely no gain” from the operation of this golden system of immigration and citizenship for wealthy individuals. Quite … Continue reading
Posted in China, Citizenship and Nationality, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, MAC, Pakistan, PBS, Settlement, Tier 1
Tagged Immigration Rules, Investors, Points Based System, Russia
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Notices must advise accurately on appeal rights
E1/(OS Russia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 357 (22 March 2012) In this case the Court of Appeal (Pill, Moses and Sullivan LJJ) heard an appeal in a judicial review case. The court unanimously reversed … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Court of Appeal, Notices, Refugee Convention, Settlement
Tagged Asylum, Case Law, Chechnya, Russia, SIAC
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Pankina, Tribunal Cases, Judicial Review, and Overseas Applicants
The Pankina judgment or “AP (Russia)” – Secretary of State for the Home Department v Pankina [2010] EWCA Civ 719 – was a big blow to the Home Secretary and its manifestations are reflected in emergent case law. In R (on … Continue reading
Pankina Reliefs
Pankina, or AP (Russia) was a landmark case and it has given rise to a multitude of new issues in immigration law. The case demonstrates that the Points Based System (“PBS”) is susceptible to legal challenges which are constitutionally well … Continue reading
Posted in AP (Russia), Article 8, Cases, Constitution, Consultation(s), ECHR, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Pankina, PBS, Post Study Work, Russia, Tier 1
Tagged AP (Russia), Constitution, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Pankina, Points Based System, Russia, UKBA
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AP (Russia) Update
The legal challenges to the maintenance requirements under the Points Based System (“PBS”) were discussed in Immigration Minister Damien Green’s Written Ministerial Statement which was presented to Parliament on 22 July 2010. The terms of the Minister’s statement in relation … Continue reading
Posted in AP (Russia), Cases, Constitution, Court of Appeal, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Pankina, PBS, Post Study Work, Russia, Tier 1
Tagged Pankina, Points Based System, Russia, UKBA
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Case Comment: SSHD v Anastasia Pankina [2010] EWCA Civ 719
Departing from the tier system’s continuous 3 month £800 maintenance requirement English judges certainly know how to pronounce judgments without fear of reprisal from the executive branch of government. The reason for this might be that in England to remove … Continue reading
Posted in AP (Russia), Article 8, Cases, Constitution, Court of Appeal, Immigration Rules, Pankina, PBS, Post Study Work, Russia, Tier 1, UKBA
Tagged Case Law, Constitution, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Pankina, Points Based System, Russia
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