Category: ILPA Blog

ILPA Blog | Family and Personal Migration

Rescuing Love from the Hostile Environment

BY MATTEO BESANA By keeping families apart, the UK’s strict family migration rules, including the minimum income requirement, are harming people’s relationships, financial stability, mental health and well-being, with significant […]

ILPA Blog | Economic Migration

On the Rise: Illegal Working Penalties

BY EMMA HARRIS The recent crackdown against illegal working can prove costly for employers issued with a penalty for employing an illegal worker, especially where the employer is an individual. […]

ILPA Blog | Refugee

Bearing a Disproportionate Burden: Climate and Migration Injustice

BY BERIVAN GUNES As COP29 gets underway in Baku, ILPA’s Legal and Parliamentary Officer, Berivan Gunes, touches on some of the limitations, and also the use of, international refugee law […]

ILPA Blog | Legal Aid

Stemming the Tide: The Case for Demarketising the Legal Aid Sector

BY DR JO WILDING Latest figures reveal that for the first time there was a net decline in the number of immigration and asylum legal aid providers in the September […]

ILPA Blog | Key Documents

Attracting and retaining legal talent in immigration law: the SQE route to qualification

BY SARAH FELLOWS The Solicitors Qualifying Examination route to qualification, and specifically the element of qualifying work experience, presents an ideal opportunity for organisations to grow new and existing legal […]

ILPA Blog | Economic Migration

The State of Play: Immigration Law in Sport

BY GLYN LLOYD As 2024’s Summer of Sport draws to a close, Glyn Lloyd, Managing Partner at Newfields, provides an insight into the work and approach of a sport immigration […]

ILPA Blog

Reviving Regional Mobility: Options for the New Government

BY ELSPETH GUILD, ALISON STANLEY, ADRIAN BERRY AND NATASHA GYA WILLIAMS Following the result of the General Election of 4 July 2024, ILPA Patrons Elspeth Guild, Adrian Berry and Alison […]