Category: ILPA Blog

BY EMILY WILBOURN AND DR CHRISTEL QUERTON The UK Government has been making increasing use of concepts such as ‘safe countries of origin’ or ‘safe third countries’. It has also […]

BY ALEXANDER FINCH AND KEELIN MCCARTHY Recent years have seen a steady rise in UK nationals and residents entering into surrogacy arrangements overseas. However, with no over-arching international agreement to […]

BY DR MAJA GRUNDLER Practitioners of immigration and asylum law share much in common with legal academics studying the field – not least the aim of migrants achieving access to […]

BY KAELYNN NARITA Technology is by no means perfect: there are times when websites fail to load, the internet won’t connect, or computers crash. Despite this reality, and a long […]

BY AVRIL SHARP Everyone should feel safe in their workplaces. That must be a universal right for all, no matter who you are, or where you come from. But one […]

BY ELIZABETH RIMMER LawCare’s Life in the Law 2025 report reveals that well-being is low, with almost a third seeing themselves leaving the legal sector altogether within the next five […]

BY MICHAEL WHITE In response to the legal aid crisis that is leaving some of the most vulnerable people in our society with no access to specialist legal advice, Asylum […]

BY ELSPETH GUILD On 2 September 2025, ILPA held its second Solidarity meeting to support immigration law practitioners facing threats and attacks both physically and online on account of their […]

BY NELLI SHEVCHENKO Over recent years, successive UK Governments have focused on two topics: immigration and economic growth. Efforts to balance these two – sometimes competing – priorities have led […]