As part of the coalition’s plans to cut family migration to the UK genuine family visitors will no longer be able to appeal the decision to refuse them entry to the UK to visit their family members in the UK. 

Last year the government drafted legislation to restrict certain family members from being classed as visitors and in July 2013 they will stop those family members who can still be classed as visitors from appealing negative decisions made by overseas embassies.   This will…

Hand-in-hand with the increasing globalisation of Family life come questions about freedom of movement. Just how readily can a non-EU national who has a child living in the UK get permission to enter and remain here? 

There have been a number of recent decisions from the European Court of Justice about the right to family life of non-EU nationals, and their freedom to enter…

Transglobe Consultancy Services Inc. is a Toronto, Canada based Canadian Immigration Consultancy firm. We provide services for various Canadian immigration matters including Temporary and Permanent residency visas.

Our mission is to provide creative, efficient and economical immigration solutions. We serve foreign nationals worldwide for their permanent and temporary residency visas of Canada. We also assist canadian businesses to hire foreign workers. We do represent permanent…

The Criminal Bar is facing challenges on several fronts: pressure on fees, a downturn in top-quality instructions and, above all, the government’s predicted £350m reduction in the legal aid budget. Chambers are responding to these challenges by diversifying and becoming more commercially focused, as Guy Hewetson writes.

Recently, I spent time speaking to some 20 sets of Chambers to discover more about their strategies for responding to the challenges faced by the…

How do you choose the best immigration lawyer? Here are a few tips to help you through the process of finding a good immigration solicitor:

1.Get recommendations

Ask your friends or family if they know a good immigration solicitor. It is very probable that at least one person in your network needed an immigration solicitor at one point or another in their life.…

By Ruth McNaught, Solicitor, Harper Macleod LLP

In April, the court lifted an automatic suspension imposed under Regulation 47G of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (the “Regulations”), finding that, if the suspension remained in place, the resultant “prejudice” that the contracting authority would suffer would outweigh the potential difficulties in quantifying the aggrieved economic operator’s damages (Metropolitan Resources North West Ltd v Secretary of…