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The electronic travel authorisation (ETA) scheme could create a ‘plethora’ of visa refusal cases on the basis of criminality or previous immigration history, an immigration lawyer has warned

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Long after it is repealed, the Safety of Rwanda Act will illustrate the fragility & vulnerability of fundamental constitutional principles, writes Graham Zellick KC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

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
An indemnity costs battle with a £20m gap could reopen an important question: what weight should an approved budget carry?
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