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On the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Windrush, Pauline Campbell reflects on West Indians’ contributions to the British war effort, to society & to the country

Unaccompanied children housed in Home Office-run hotels are protected in full by the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989), the High Court has held.

A secret policy used by the home secretary to repeatedly stop and detain two mothers and their young children at port has been declared unlawful by the High Court.

The government cannot refuse advance payments of universal credit to claimants in financial hardship simply because they don’t have a national insurance number (NINo), the Court of Appeal has held.

Nearly nine in ten Britons believe it is important their MP votes to uphold the rule of law, a YouGov poll has found.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published a briefing on the Illegal Migration Bill ahead of Report Stage and Third Reading in the Commons, scheduled for Wednesday 26 April 2023.

The government will undermine the rule of law if it goes ahead with proposed amendments to the illegal Migration Bill, lawyers including former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas have warned

The European Circuit is organising a panel discussion event which will be hosted by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg, focusing on migration and its implications for the rule of law and human rights.

Talk about an own goal—the BBC’s grounding of Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker over his tweets put the institution’s own impartiality under the spotlight.

Was the BBC’s handling of the Gary Lineker case about the perception of impartiality or of independence? John Gould puts the broadcaster’s guidelines under the microscope

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Weightmans—Jason Slatcher

Weightmans appoint new Chief Technology Officer

Mishcon de Reya—trainees

Mishcon de Reya announces trainee retention rate of 86%

Sackers—Charlotte Adams & Fraser Sutton

Sackers welcomes two new Graduate Solicitor Apprentices

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Foreign judgment creditors have gained a route to recovery after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Drelle v Servis-Terminal

NLJ this week: Parenthood in waiting

Surrogacy is growing in popularity, but parents-to-be face a complex legal framework

NLJ this week: Judgment calls

Winning a judgment may be only the beginning of an expensive enforcement battle, writes Professor Dominic Regan in this week's NLJ

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Immigration & asylum

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Weightmans—Jason Slatcher

Mishcon de Reya—trainees

Sackers—Charlotte Adams & Fraser Sutton