Featured documents
R (Greyhound Board of Great Britain Ltd) v Welsh Ministers [2026] EWHC 670 (Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling reinforces the constitutional divide between the courts and the legislature. It explains that the scheme and framework of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (GWA 2006) embody that separation of powers, and that any judicial attempt to recognise and enforce a common law obligation on Welsh Ministers to consult prior to introducing legislation in the Senedd would trespass upon that boundary. This is not a departure from established principle; case law has already upheld comparable rules for lawmakers in Scotland and at Westminster. However, this is the first express confirmation of the position for Welsh lawmakers, and the first time this dimension of the GWA 2006 has been analysed in such depth. The court examined earlier
The solution arrived through the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), a quasi‑judicial body handling mass claims, created under UN Security Council Resolution 687. By addressing environmental harm—most notably via its ‘F4’ claim class—the UNCC set a seminal benchmark shaping how international law and contemporary arbitral panels allocate financial responsibility for wartime ecological devastation. With present-day wars in areas such as Eastern Europe and the Middle East bringing dam breaches, strikes on chemical facilities, and the burning of farmland, the UNCC’s legacy endures as an essential reference point for states, global investors, and companies engaged in post‑conflict arbitration. The F4 claims: Quantifying the unquantifiable Prior to the 1990s, mechanisms in international law for war reparations overwhelmingly favoured property loss, foregone earnings, and bodily injury. The natural world was commonly treated as a mute, non-compensable victim of armed hostilities...
Understanding the farming business as a business Many farms still use long-standing structures that arose by habit, not strategy. Sole traders, informal partnerships and outdated partnership deeds are common. While once effective, such setups can cause major issues around succession, tax planning and involving the next generation. A corporate team can take a fresh, business-led view of the farm, asking: Who owns the land and other critical assets? Who manages daily operations? Who carries the risk and who enjoys the return? What is the enduring plan for succession? From this review, the team can confirm whether the current setup is fit for purpose or if an alternative — for example an updated partnership agreement, a company, a limited liability partnership, or a blended model — would better meet the family’s aims. Tax efficiency through joined-up advice Tax sits at the centre of most
Most recent News
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Family routes Long residence, discretion and human rights International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar outlines key forthcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Digitisation implementation measures will include less NTL evidence On 1 October 2024, the Minister for Migration and Citizenship, Seema Malhotra MP, answered a joint letter from organisations including the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association ( ILPA), titled ‘ Grave Concerns Regarding Digital-only Immigration Status’. Her reply seeks to address major worries about replacing physical immigration documents with digital-only proof of status, and lists measures being introduced, including lowering the evidential burden for No Time Limit ( NTL) applications. The ILPA letter had labelled the digital-only policy ‘inherently poor’, highlighting multiple risks linked to the shift. These cover the...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Preventing illegal working International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Please note that our Immigration calendar outlines key forthcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Replacement BRP service closed on 26 September 2024 and no more BRPs issued from 31 October On 26 September 2024, the Home Office updated a range of guidance documents and materials to confirm the withdrawal of the replacement Biometric Residence Permit ( BRP) service on that day, as part of the ongoing transition to a fully digital immigration status from 1 January 2025. In a related, linked development, the Home Office emailed...
Following moves by nation states to penalise refugees who arrive or stay without visas, the UK's refugee body has issued formal guidance on how to read the Refugee Convention properly......
These changes mean that the general position for applications would appear to be as follows: Co S dated 4 April 2024 to 10 July 2024: apply rates in HC 590 Co S dated 10 July 2024 to 7 October 2024: apply rates in the guidance Co S dated from 8 October 2024 onwards: apply rates in HC 217 As some rates differ markedly, it is hoped that transitional measures on extensions will be introduced in due course. For additional background, see: LNB News 12/09/2024 15. For links to the relevant guidance, see: LNB News 12/08/2024 32. Also note that Table 3 ( Eligible health and education SOC 2020 occupation codes where going rates are based on national pay scales) shows a lower going rate for SOC 2020 code 2253 Dental practitioners ( Scotland) for Dental foundation training ( Hospital dental services), known as Vocational Training in Scotland: £37,361, down from...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Work sponsorships: sponsors Family routes Long residence, discretion and human rights EU law rights and EU Settlement scheme Preventing illegal working Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Note that our Immigration calendar sets out key forthcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works The key features of Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 217 The Lexis+® UK Immigration team has produced a Practice Note summarising the latest Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules: HC 217, published on 10 September 2024 alongside an Explanatory Memorandum. Its chief emphasis is the implementation of the Electronic Travel Authorisation ( ETA) scheme, and it sets out the remaining...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Visitors Family routes Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content New Q& As Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar outlines the principal forthcoming developments for business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Statement of Changes HC 217 rolls out ETA scheme and makes other changes The Home Office has published a fresh Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules, HC 217, together with an Explanatory Memorandum ( EM). Running to 75 pages, it introduces amendments across multiple Parts and Appendices of the Rules and advances the ETA roll-out. In particular, it sets out dates to widen the list of nationalities that must obtain Electronic Travel Authorisation ( ETA) before travelling to the UK. It also...
Northumbrian Water Ltd, R v Water Services Regulation Authority [2024] EWCA Civ 842 Background to the decision As set out in the News Analysis: Northumbrian Water— No duty of prescription under the common law? ( R (on the application of Northumbrian Water Ltd) v Water Services Regulation Authority), the decision confirms that where a public authority enjoys a discretionary power, it is under no requirement to publish a policy explaining the manner in which that discretion will be exercised. Accordingly, any general requirement to codify how such powers are to be applied was rejected. This conclusion displaces the stance adopted in ZLL v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2022] EWHC 85 ( Admin) or, more precisely, treats the dictum on a ‘duty of prescription’ as obiter. While the implications of that point are examined in the article...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Family routes Citizenship applications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Updated practice note Latest Q& A Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar highlights the key upcoming changes that business immigration advisers need to track... UK immigration control: how it works IFS releases report on Home Office budgeting and asylum overspends The Home Office has consistently exceeded its allocations for asylum, border, visa and passport functions, backfilling shortfalls with emergency Treasury Reserve injections. Across 2021–22 to 2023–24, it planned an average outlay of £110m for these operations, yet actual annual spend averaged £2.6bn. Budgets were clearly inadequate; nevertheless, the department lodged low Main Estimates, with the Treasury later topping them up from a Reserve intended for...
In this issue: Key developments UK Immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar highlights the principal upcoming milestones of interest to business immigration practitioners. It sets out the dates and developments practitioners need to track. UK Immigration control: how it works Government announces £10.5m funding for EES border changes The government has set aside £10.5m to ready the Port of Dover, Eurotunnel in Folkestone and Eurostar at St Pancras for the EU’s forthcoming digital border regime, the Entry/ Exit System ( EES), due this Autumn. The EES—confirmed by the European Commissioner for Home Affairs on 16 August 2024 to commence on 10 November 2024—will capture entry and exit details for non‑ EU nationals...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Note that our Immigration calendar highlights forthcoming milestones of interest to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Interim Independent Chief Inspector outlines priorities and new plans for his role David Bolt, the interim Independent Chief Inspector for Borders and Immigration ( ICIBI), has released an update on his priorities and set out plans for fresh inspection themes. He identifies completing the annual report, the Contingency Asylum Accommodation ( CAA) inspection, reviewing the Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority, and two country of origin assessments ( Rwanda and Georgia) as core tasks. New areas slated for scrutiny include fee waivers, age...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Work sponsorship—sponsors Family routes Citizenship applications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Note that our Immigration calendar sets out key forthcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Home Secretary commissions MAC to review IT and engineering sectors The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper MP, has asked Professor Brian Bell, Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee ( MAC), to examine information technology and telecommunications professionals, as well as engineering roles, to assess why these fields depend on international hiring and to gauge anticipated demand. Full details of the commission are provided below. See: LNB News 08/08/2024 52. Wo RC publishes research on impact of Ukraine Schemes changes on Ukrainian...
In this issue Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work British citizenship Daily and weekly news alerts New Q& As Future developments— Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar highlights forthcoming milestones of relevance to business immigration advisers. Immigration cases January— July 2024 review Adam Pipe, barrister at No 8 Chambers, surveys the leading decisions from January to July 2024 for immigration practitioners, setting out why they matter. The roundup addresses: withdrawal of sponsor licences; legal limbo and Article 8 ECHR; judicial conduct and fairness; EUSS and the Withdrawal Agreement; deportation affecting EEA and non‑ EEA nationals; electronic monitoring; private life; entry clearance; and citizenship rights and removal of status. See News Analysis: Immigration cases January— July 2024 review. UK immigration control: how it works What to expect from the new Labour government on Immigration Law Ben Maitland, senior...
Salary increases On 4 April 2024, all three key salary benchmarks rose for standard, new Skilled Worker applications. To sponsor an individual on this route, employers must now pay whichever is highest of the following: the general minimum salary threshold, lifted from £26,200 to £38,700 gross a year the hourly floor, increased from £10.75 to £15.88 per hour the going rate, which shifted from the 25th percentile in the occupation code under the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings ( ASHE) to the 50th percentile (the median) Because of that final adjustment, certain minimum rates jumped by 50 per cent or more, with many new figures exceeding both the threshold salary and prevailing market pay, especially for roles outside major cities where remuneration is often lower. Note too that the going rate is typically calculated on a 37.5-hour working week; where...
Sponsor licence revocation challenges: no need for a global assessment During the first half of 2024, the Administrative Court has delivered a series of inconsistent rulings on whether the Secretary of State for the Home Department ( SSHD) must undertake a global assessment when deciding to revoke a sponsor licence. All the claims have featured care providers running care homes who have brought challenges to revocation decisions taken by the SSHD. In R ( Supporting Care Ltd) v SSHD [2024] EWHC 68 ( Admin) (19 January 2024), His Honour Judge Siddique quashed the SSHD’s decision on the single basis that he had ‘failed to conduct an adequately reasoned global assessment of all relevant considerations in deciding whether to revoke or downgrade the sponsor licence.’ (para [55]). The dispute concerned entirely the necessity for such holistic evaluation in sponsor licence revocation...
Re HR ( Parallel Child Abduction and Asylum Proceedings) [2024] EWHC 1626 ( Fam) What are the practical implications of this case? This judgment examined the ambit of the ‘situation’ the court must consider under Art 13(b) of the 1980 Hage Convention. On the question of whether the children would encounter an intolerable situation, the father submitted that the court should look at circumstances in both the UK and the US, whereas counsel for the mother contended that the enquiry must be confined to the home state. The court decided it was unnecessary to determine that issue at this stage and therefore expressly refrained from doing so. Nonetheless, Sir Andrew Mc Farlane P observed that it is striking there is no extant authority addressing the point. The court further noted that the express focus of Art 13(b) is the potential risk to which a child would be...
Net migration to the UK Net migration to the UK totalled 685,000 last year, a fall from the record 745,000 reached in 2022, yet still above any pre‑ Brexit year. This number is expected to edge down further as a result of measures introduced by the previous government: curbing international student numbers, barring dependants, and sharply increasing salary thresholds for skilled workers—steps the new government says it backs and will keep in place. It follows that Labour’s manifesto offered little in the way of fresh immigration policy detail. Of the forty Bills set out in the King’s speech, only two touch on immigration: one concerns asylum; the other, the Skills England Bill, leaves immigration law unchanged and instead creates a statutory body to deliver a national skills strategy. Bear in mind that amendments to the Immigration Rules do not need primary...
What are the practical implications of this case? Should the Court of Appeal’s position prevail and Fordham J’s approach be rejected, the bases for contesting policies through administrative law will be markedly narrowed. The so‑called ‘duty of prescription’—a duty to publish a policy indicating how discretion is to be exercised—now appears restricted to cases where a statute expressly requires it, or where such prescription is needed to satisfy the European Convention on Human Rights ( ECHR). Without those elements, it will not be possible to rely on any purported duty of prescription. It is helpful to recall why the duty was accepted in at least some contexts in Lumba. In that decision, Lord Dyson stated that, in certain situations, the rule of law requires an open and transparent statement by the executive of the circumstances in which broad statutory criteria will be applied ( Lumba at...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Family members under Part 8 and Appendix FM Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Citizenship applications Daily and weekly news alerts New Q& As Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Note that our Immigration calendar sets out key forthcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Home Secretary statement on direction of legal migration policy The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, addressed Parliament on the direction of the new Labour government’s future policy on legal migration. She reaffirmed a focus on aligning migration policy with skills and the labour market—a ‘new approach’—to be delivered through a cross‑government programme set out in the pre‑election manifesto and the newly announced Skills England body highlighted in the King’s speech. She also confirmed that ministers will press ahead with the...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Citizenship applications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content New Q& As Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Note that our Immigration calendar sets out key forthcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Home Secretary's speech focuses on returns and enforcement On Monday 22 July 2024, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper delivered a Ministerial Statement in the House of Commons. She criticised the previous administration’s handling of asylum, referencing the 19 deaths this year in Channel crossings, a sevenfold increase in asylum support spending over the past three years, and inadequate intelligence sharing with Europe. She confirmed the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda has been ended, launched recruitment for a leader of a new Border Security Command, and is seeking renewed intelligence cooperation with European institutions such as Europol. She is also...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Work sponsorship: sponsors EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Please note, our Immigration calendar highlights key upcoming developments of interest to business immigration advisers. King's Speech 2024— Immigration At the State Opening of Parliament on 17 July 2024, His Majesty King Charles III outlined the government’s priorities and proposed measures for the next parliamentary session. These include: (1) a new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill intended to ‘modernise’ the asylum and immigration system while reinforcing and safeguarding the border, and (2) a Skills England Bill designed to assess national and local skills...
Popular documents
When evaluating a general damages claim, the practitioner ought initially to refer to the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG)...
This Practice Note This Practice Note reviews mechanisms used in settling litigation. A Tomlin order consists of a consent order paired with a schedule. It operates to stay proceedings on terms that have been agreed. The provisions contained in the schedule may remain confidential. This Practice Note describes the scope of confidentiality attaching to the schedule and sets out how it differs from a standard consent order. Sample wording for a Tomlin order is included, alongside links to precedents, as well as guidance on court approval. It also addresses varying, setting aside and enforcing a Tomlin order, including the considerations the court will take into account when handling applications for each. Further guidance is provided on interpreting and applying the relevant provisions of the CPR; however, some courts and divisions impose very specific requirements for both drafting and approval, and for approaching the schedule and confidentiality issues. Accordingly, you must consider the particular rules and court guide provisions in the forum where your claim is proceeding when drawing up the Tomlin order...
Date [ date ] Parties [ name of Landlord ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) with its registered office at ] [ address ] (Landlord) [ name of Tenant ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) with its registered office at ] [ address ] (Tenant) [ [ name of Guarantor ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) with its registered office at ] [ address ] (Guarantor) ] [ [ name of Mortgagee ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) with its registered office at ] [ address ] (Mortgagee) ] Definitions Within this Deed, the terms below shall be interpreted as follows: [ Annual Rent • the annual sum reserved under the Lease; ] [ Insurance Rent • the Tenant’s share of the Landlord’s costs of insuring the Property (as set out in the Lease); ] Lease • the lease of the Property dated [ date ], entered into between (1) [ the Landlord OR [ name ...
I, [ name ], of [ address ], solemnly and sincerely state that: [ Matters to be verified, set out in numbered paragraphs ] I make this solemn statement in good conscience, believing it to be true, and pursuant to the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act 1835. DECLARED at [ details ] this [ day ] day of [ month and year ] Before me ................................................................................ [ signature of the person before whom the declaration is made ] A [ commissioner for oaths OR [ solicitor OR [ insert other qualification ] ] authorised to administer oaths ]...
Discover more from LexisNexis
