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The test for an Article 8 claim to stay in the UK within the Immigration Rules is whether there are “insurmountable obstacles” to continuing family life outside the UK. But even if an applicant does pass this test, there is a further hurdle: whether removal is disproportionate. An important question here is what weight the …
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This appeal considered whether the respondent was a ‘worker’ within the meaning of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and the Working Time Regulations 1998, reg 2.Between Aug 2005 and Apr 2011 the respondent, who is by trade a plumbing and heating engineer, did work for Pimlico Plumbers Ltd.In Aug 2011 the respondent issued proceedings against …
Editorial The Americans have just been outrageously vocal about their policy on separating immigrants families. The British have been quietly doing same for years. My own client's daughter was put up for adoption due in part to his precarious immigration status. When it happened I thought, surely this is England we don't do stuff like …
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Global investors should follow China’s lead in AfricaA mine worker hammers the rough surface of a gold bar during processing at the Kibali gold mine, which is operated by Randgold Resources in the DRC © BloombergI remember a time, over 20 years ago, when virtually no professionally-managed capital moved across borders in Africa. It was …
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