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IA definition

What does IA mean? In practice, IA is the common shorthand for the Investment Association, the UK trade body for investment managers. It is not defined in legislation or case law; the term is a widely used industry label. The IA issues influential, non‑binding guidance and policy statements used by legal advisers and listed companies, including the IA Principles of Remuneration and annual Shareholder Priorities, and it operates the Institutional Voting Information Service (IVIS), which produces red/amber/green voting research on governance, pay and capital management. IA materials are frequently consulted in UK corporate governance, executive remuneration, equity capital markets (for example placings and buy‑backs)...

Overseas nationals’ marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales: procedures, identity evidence, and the Home Office sham marriage/civil partnership referral and investigation regime under the Immigration Act 2014

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Practice notes

What do advisers need to know about access by non-British or Irish citizens to marrIAge and Civil partnership in England and Wales?

This Practice Note looks at:

the steps and potential barriers for a marriage or civil partnership involving a non-British or Irish citizen following commencement of the relevant provisions of the Immigration Act 2014 (IA 2014)
which parts of the new framework may particularly interest or concern immigration practitioners

Note that Lexis+® UK does not cover areas of law in Scotland and Northern Ireland that are unique to those jurisdictions. Family law is one such field. However, schemes for referral and investigation akin to the England and Wales regime discussed in this Practice Note have been in force in those jurisdictions from 2 March 2015. See in particular:

Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Order 2015, SI 2015/396
Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Northern Ireland and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2015, SI 2015/395
Sham Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland and Northern Ireland) (Administrative) Regulations 2015, SI 2015/404
Marriage and civil partnership referral...

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Eric Fripp

The 36 Group

Eric is a specialist adviser and advocate in public law and human rights cases including a substantial core of asylum, immigration, and nationality work.Eric has built a substantial practice focusing on the international and domestic law concerned with refugees, nationality, and statelessness, United Kingdom immigration law, domestic human rights law as applicable to immigration and/or refugee cases, and administrative law/judicial review, with his experience extending to an increasing proportion of complex and/or politically sensitive cases in all of those areas. In recent years he has also attracted broader public law and human rights work on behalf of interveners in important non-immigration related cases concerning private and family life under article 8 ECHR, the right to marry under article 12 ECHR, and freedom of thought, conscience and religion under article 9 ECHR. He is noted for his thoroughness and skill as an advocate in the...

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