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The cost-of-living crisis provided a focus for this year’s Pro Bono Week, with lawyers attending a wide range of events.

Ministers have published secondary legislation widening access to legal aid for victims of domestic abuse.

Home secretary Suella Braverman is considering giving suspects anonymity to prevent ‘trial by media’ where suspects are well-known, she told Young Conservatives at the party conference in Birmingham.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, delivered an emergency budget on 23 September 2022, entitled the ‘Growth Plan 2022’. Among a raft of measures intended to ease the burden of increasing energy costs and the cost of living crisis, the Growth Plan includes an announcement on migration.

The UK–Rwanda partnership is not legally binding, has not been subject to scrutiny by Parliament, and fails to protect asylum-seekers’ rights, the Law Society has warned

The Home Office has launched a ‘Scale-up’ visa route to help businesses recruit highly skilled employees

The Home Office is launching a ‘scale-up’ visa route next week to help businesses recruit highly skilled employees

The police registration scheme, which required certain visa holders to register with the police, has been suspended with immediate effect

The intervention of the European Court of Human Rights in the government’s Rwanda asylum plan was a rare success, as Neil Parpworth explains

The Home Secretary unlawfully seized more than 2000 mobile phones from asylum seekers and extracted vast amounts of data, the High Court has held

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Public Accounts Committee warn of ‘extinction’ risk for legal aid

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned

NLJ this week: The insider returns

Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome

NLJ this week: Drawing the line on contempt

After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights

NLJ this week: Stop and search by the numbers

The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains

NLJ this week: Looking back on the prorogation that never was

Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously

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Immigration & asylum

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly