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In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Family routes EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q&A Key developments Future developments—Immigration calendar Note: our Immigration calendar highlights forthcoming milestones of interest to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works The Home Office has set out the framework for an inter-ministerial group (IMG) with the UK’s devolved governments to foster ongoing collaboration on safety, security, and migration. The policy paper explains that the IMG will tackle shared priorities, oversee common risks, and react to new pressures, policy shifts, and legislative changes. The group will convene three times annually, with meetings of 60–90 minutes, held virtually, in person, or in hybrid form as circumstances require. Agenda planning and chairing will be shared between the Home Office and the devolved administrations, providing flexibility and...

In this issue: Arbitration in England and Wales Arbitration under the AA 1996 Act International arbitration Investment treaty arbitration Institutional and ad hoc arbitration Other arbitration and ADR-related news and developments LexTalk®Arbitration: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Arbitration in England and Wales England and Wales—interim mandatory order to withdraw foreign proceedings The Commercial Court in Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Ltd v ILLC Chlodwig Enterprise [2024] EWHC 1827 (Comm) issued interim mandatory relief compelling the defendants to discontinue Russian proceedings commenced contrary to an English arbitration agreement. Although the English court had already made anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunctions, the Russian case remained ongoing with imminent steps pending. Accordingly, the court extended the existing injunctions and, in addition, imposed an interim mandatory order. The judgment revisited the tests for granting interim mandatory injunctions and outlined when mandatory measures can sit alongside prohibitory relief. The order was made notwithstanding the defendants’...

Note: elements of the guidance in this Practice Note were derived in part from material first prepared in collaboration with Professor Robert Merkin and CMS. This Practice Note also contains further practical guidance kindly contributed by Richard Power of Clyde & Co LLP and has been substantially maintained by Jeremy Mash, Partner, CMS. Scope of this Practice Note This Practice Note addresses the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in England and Wales (England and English are employed as convenient shorthand in this Practice Note for ease of reference). Such awards include: awards issued where the legal seat of the arbitration was England, and foreign awards, ie awards rendered with the seat of the arbitration located in a jurisdiction other than England Foreign awards include: New York Convention awards, ie awards issued where the seat of the arbitration lay in states that have formally adopted the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the...

General overview of the Investment Canada Act regime The Investment Canada Act (ICA) empowers the Canadian government to examine specified investments by non-Canadians in Canadian enterprises and, where it deems it suitable, to stop a deal from advancing, require a completed or proposed transaction to be unwound or divestment undertaken, or grant clearance subject to investor undertakings and commitments. There are two principal components to ICA scrutiny: the ‘net benefit review’ process, the ‘national security review’ process Under the net benefit review, a non-Canadian seeking to obtain control of a Canadian business (including a Canadian operation owned by a foreign parent), and whose purchase surpasses specified thresholds, must demonstrate to government that the investment will provide a net benefit to Canada. Although the ICA lists various factors to be weighed, the outcome is largely discretionary and turns on the nature and calibre of the undertakings the foreign investor is willing to offer the Canadian government concerning how the Canadian business will be...

ARCHIVED : This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This Practice Note compiles principal appellate cases (ie rulings of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court and, where applicable, selected judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU)) that we have covered, to make it simpler for users to locate those decisions. You can navigate the material via the collapsible table of contents on the left-hand margin and/or by using the hyperlinks listed below. The cases are arranged under these headings: Key DR Developments Brexit Applicable law Rome I Jurisdiction Jurisdiction and choice of court agreements Stays and disputing the court’s jurisdiction Brussels I (EC regulation) Brussels I (recast) (EU regulation) Service Service in the jurisdiction Service...