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We acted on behalf of a national of India who was refused leave to remain under paragraph 276ADE and outside the Immigration Rules, based upon Article 8 and compassionate circumstances. She entered the UK as a visitor in 2021 and made an...

The Celebration Many British Caribbean people relocated to Britain as pioneers in 1948, answering to the call to come and live in the country after the Second World War. Thousands followed until 1973 who came with hope and with optimism in their...

The Bill has reached the report stage in the House of Lords and is a defective and dangerous piece of legislation, says the President of the Law Society. She says that it threatens to undermine the Rule of Law and access to justice and it is...

The Humanitarian Protection Policy was introduced in 2003 to replace the policy on Exceptional Leave to Remain. The policy objective was to grant humanitarian protection and to provide protection and a period of limited leave to those who require...

The Illegal Immigration Bill was announced on 7 March 2023. It aims to deal with challenges relating to the UK Asylum process, in other words a small boat crossing on the English Channel. The bill, which was not subject to a public consultation,...

The current Government is fixated on reforming the Human Rights Act and introducing instead a Bill of Rights. The Law Society is concerned that the Bill of Rights will damage the Rule of law and make it harder for people to protect their rights....

We are proud to be included in the Legal 500 firms to watch.  The Legal 500 is a directory that analyses the capabilities of law firms across the world and it assesses the strength of law firms in over 150 jurisdictions.  The ranking is based...

We won an appeal of a citizen of Albania who came to the UK as a visitor and over stayed.  In April 2020 he applied for leave to remain as a partner of a British citizen and as a step father of her two children.  When the application was...

We represented a Chinese national who moved to the UK and gave birth to a British girl following a one-night engagement with the child’s father. He is a British national and his daughter was granted British nationality.  We made an application...

Afghanistan’s crisis comes at a particularly difficult time in the UK immigration history.  The Nationality & Borders Bill was introduced to the House of Commons on 6th July 2021, and makes changes to the UK immigration system as it...