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Immigration & asylum report highlights poor quality advice plaguing cases

Duncan Bain fears the hostile environment for the Windrush generation has wider repercussions

Lawyers highlight lack of access to legal help & shocking rise in litigants in person

Relatives of European Economic Area (EEA) nationals concerned about their immigration status post-Brexit have received some reassurance from a landmark Court of Appeal judgment.

R (on the application of FT) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (‘rolling review’; challenging leave granted) [2017] UKUT 331 (IAC), [2017] All ER (D) 53 (Aug)

Those who have chosen to make the UK their home deserve greater transparency about their position, as Katie Newbury explains

Katie Newbury reflects on the impact of the UK’s recent & future hostile migration environment

    How will UK-based EU citizens fare in the event of a full Brexit? Kate Beaumont gets an expert opinion from Tim Eicke QC

    R (on the application of SF) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2705 (Admin), [2015] All ER (D) 03 (Oct)

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    MOVERS & SHAKERS

    Haynes Boone—Jeremy Cross

    Haynes Boone—Jeremy Cross

    Firm strengthens global fund finance practice with London partner hire.

    DWF—Stephen Webb

    DWF—Stephen Webb

    Partner and head of national planning team appointed

    mfg Solicitors—Nick Little

    mfg Solicitors—Nick Little

    Corporate team expands in Birmingham with partner hire

    NEWS
    The High Court’s refusal to recognise a prolific sperm donor as a child’s legal parent has highlighted the risks of informal conception arrangements, according to Liam Hurren, associate at Kingsley Napley, in NLJ this week
    The Court of Appeal’s decision in Mazur may have settled questions around litigation supervision, but the profession should not simply ‘move on’, argues Jennifer Coupland, CEO of CILEX, in this week's NLJ
    A simple phrase like ‘subject to references’ may not protect employers as much as they think. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, analyses recent employment cases showing how conditional job offers can still create binding contracts

    An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ

    Medical reporting organisation fees have become ‘the final battleground’ in modern costs litigation, says Kris Kilsby, costs lawyer at Peak Costs and council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers, in this week's NLJ
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