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Solicitors and advice agencies specialising in immigration and asylum law have been named as potential targets for coordinated attacks by agitators behind the ongoing riots

Lawyers have welcomed a bumper package of Bills in Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s first King’s Speech, covering a wide-ranging agenda of reform

A first-tier tribunal judge conducted the procedure of an appeal with ‘substantial unfairness such that the outcome cannot stand’, the Court of Appeal has held

The Home Secretary unlawfully failed to provide proof of status to thousands of people with extended leave to remain, causing hardship, the High Court has held in a landmark judgment

Long after it is repealed, the Safety of Rwanda Act will illustrate the fragility & vulnerability of fundamental constitutional principles, writes Graham Zellick KC

The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 is likely to be a major part of Rishi Sunak’s legacy as prime minister should he, as is widely predicted, lose the general election in July, Professor Graham Zellick KC writes in this week’s NLJ

We are in unprecedented territory, writes Lord Carter of Haslemere. So what will our courts do next?
Michael Zander KC on the final stages of this ‘post-truth’ Bill, as it elbowed its way to enactment

The Rwanda Act has placed the courts in unprecedented territory, so what happens next? Lord Carter of Haslemere, consultant at Kingsley Napley, writing in this week’s NLJ, explores the possibilities

The government’s controversial Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill has passed into law amid a storm of criticism

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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