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Law digests: 8 April 2022

08 April 2022
Issue: 7974 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Citizenship

R (on the application of O (a minor, by her litigation friend AO)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another case [2022] UKSC 3, [2022] All ER (D) 06 (Feb)

The Supreme Court dismissed the appellants’ appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeal, Civil Division which had held that the fee charged to children applying to be registered as British citizens under the British Nationality Act 1981 fixed at £1,012 pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 (the Regulations), SI 2018/330, made under the Immigration Act 2014 (IA 2014), was lawful. Applying rules of statutory interpretation, the court held that IA 2014 in authorising the Secretary of State to set the fees had not imposed any criterion of affordability. On the contrary, it had expressly empowered the Secretary of State to set fees at levels which (i) took account of benefits likely to accrue from citizenship and (ii) could subsidise the cost of the exercise of other functions in connection with immigration or nationality, thereby

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

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Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

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Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
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The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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