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InterviewUK immigration
UK has ‘no strategy’ for housing asylum seekers, says borders’ chief inspector
...Although it passed into law in July last year, the legislation has not been implemented in full because of the government’s failure to send asylum seekers to Rwanda....
February 16, 2024
Jimmy Lai
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai set for landmark trial
...Lai is being tried under the National Security Law, introduced in 2020 in the wake of citywide pro-democracy protests....
December 15, 2023
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Law
US bankruptcy judge approved potential $750 hourly legal fee for girlfriend
...The complaint noted that “in another matter over which Judge Jones presided, it appears that Judge Jones approved a fee application submitted by The Law Offices of Liz Freeman....
October 19, 2023
UK immigration
40,000 migrants living in limbo in the UK, Home Office says
...MPs voted on Monday to strip the bill of seven amendments introduced by peers — including those that sought to ensure “due regard” for international and domestic law....
April 15, 2024
News updates from April 10: US inflation rises faster than expected; KPMG fined $25mn in cheating scandal
What to watch in Asia today
...Events: South Korea begins voting in legislative elections that will determine President Yoon Suk Yeol’s scope for passing laws during his final three years in office....
April 10, 2024
Hong Kong politics
Hong Kong fast-tracks tough new national security law
...Thomas Gnocchi, head of the EU representative office in Hong Kong, said the EU had raised “significant concerns” with local authorities over the law....
March 8, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Asia
Optimising fund firm models for Asia’s ascent
Wednesday, 8 MayMarina View, #2 The Westin Singapore, SingaporeSingapore 018961, Singapore
UK government spending
UK spent quarter of aid budget on hosting asylum seekers in 2023
...Although a legacy backlog in claims has been reduced, thousands of new arrivals have been held in limbo since the passage into law of the Illegal Migration Act last July barred anyone entering the UK without...
April 10, 2024
UK immigration
House of Lords inflicts fresh defeats on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill
...with the laws both domestically and internationally”....
March 20, 2024
Due Diligence
Czech’s in the Royal Mail Premium content
...In December, Han Sun Law Offices opened a New York outpost, months after setting up in Singapore. DeHeng Law Offices landed in Laos last year, while Yingke Law Firm opened an office in South Africa....
April 18, 2024
UK immigration
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda asylum bill suffers defeats in House of Lords
...Last week the National Audit Office, parliament’s spending watchdog, said the cost of Sunak’s Rwanda policy could exceed £580mn by the end of the decade....
March 4, 2024
UK immigration
Sunak’s bid to clear the asylum backlog backfires, say lawyers
...Members of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association, a professional body of immigration law specialists, highlighted two examples where the Home Office had mistakenly deemed people to have travelled...
January 31, 2024
William Magnuson
What ancient Athens can teach modern America about law and democracy
...of Colorado held that former President Donald Trump was constitutionally ineligible to run for election again due to the Fourteenth Amendment’s prohibition on insurrectionists holding office....
February 4, 2024
Human rights
Rwanda bill flouts UK’s human rights’ obligations, MPs warn
...principle of the universality of human rights and jeopardised the UK’s reputation for respecting the rule of law....
February 12, 2024
Britain after Brexit
A glimpse of the Brexit debate of the future Premium content
...Brexit in numbers This week’s chart is taken from the Office for National Statistics’ monthly trade update which showed an overall drop of £200mn in imports of ‘food and live animals’, including a £40mn...
April 18, 2024
News in-depthUK Budget 2024
‘Disastrous’: Justice system leaders warn Hunt against further austerity
...Nick Emmerson, president of the Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, said a new round of austerity would be “absolutely disastrous” for the justice system....
March 4, 2024
FT Live
Future of Retail
Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation
Tuesday, 17 SeptemberLondon, UK
US presidential election 2024
Highlights from Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech
...“There are state laws banning the right to choose, criminalising doctors and forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states as well to get the care they need,” Biden said....
March 8, 2024
News in-depthUK immigration
‘Draconian’ Rwanda bill pushes UK into new legal waters
...The Home Office said the bill precluded “almost all grounds” for individuals to challenge being sent to Rwanda....
December 11, 2023
UK immigration
UK vows Rwanda asylum plan can be compatible with international law
...claims, in violation of both international and domestic UK law....
November 16, 2023
National Archives
Blair government considered detaining asylum seekers on Scottish island
...of international human rights law....
December 29, 2023
US presidential election 2024
Donald Trump would gut Joe Biden’s landmark IRA climate law if elected
...Office, which is disbursing $400bn to help industries decarbonise, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Clean Energy Corps....
November 23, 2023
News in-depthDonald Trump
Donald Trump’s ‘zombie’ case lurches towards an unlikely place in history
...Unprecedented matters of law are not the only hurdles facing Bragg....
April 11, 2024
News in-depthPost Office scandal
How Post Office lawyers pushed boundaries in UK sub-postmasters scandal
...The matter of cost is not a legitimate excuse against disclosure, according to Richard Moorhead, a professor of law and professional ethics at the University of Exeter....
December 28, 2023
Inside BusinessSujeet Indap
Test case looms for companies seeking US bankruptcy protection
...On a Sunday afternoon about a year ago, a partner at a major Texas law firm walked into a suburban Houston UPS Store. There she set up a post office box for a California-based pharmaceuticals company....
February 26, 2024
UK immigration
Sunak pledges to change the law after Supreme Court rules against Rwanda policy
...However, Sir David Normington, former permanent secretary at the Home Office, said it was “not enough for the government to declare somewhere is safe”....
November 15, 2023
The Big Read
The downfall of the judge who dominated bankruptcy in America
...After leaving Jackson Walker, Freeman established the Law Office of Liz Freeman....
November 21, 2023

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