Immigration Act 2016

A Bill To make provision about the law on immigration and asylum; to make provisionabout access to services, facilities, licences and work by reference to immigrationstatus; to make provision about the Director of Labour Market Enforcement; to makeprovision about language requirements for public sector workers; to make provisionabout fees for passports and civil registration; and for connected purposes.

• Sitting: 1st reading - 17 September 2015
  Immigration Act 2016: House of Commons 1st reading
• Sitting: 2nd reading - 13 October 2015
  Immigration Act 2016: House of Commons 2nd reading
• Sitting: Programme motion - 13 October 2015
  Immigration Act 2016: House of Commons Programme motion
• Sitting: Money resolution - 13 October 2015
  Immigration Act 2016: House of Commons Money resolution

Family

Family

• Parental alienation caused by unreasonable delay in proceedings breaches parent's Article 8 rights (ECtHR)
  In Schrader v Austria (15437/19) [2021] ECHR 808, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that the undue delay in domestic children proceedings, which had caused the applicant father to lose his relationship with his stepchild (a child of the family) and impacted on his relationship with his child, breached his human rights.
• FPR Practice Direction Update: No 7 of 2021 issued
  On 14 October 2021, Practice Direction Update: No 7 of 2021 was issued, and amends pilot Practice Directions 36M, 36Q and 36R.
• Ask Family: What options are available to a petitioner to progress a divorce where the respondent has failed to provide their consent to a petition based on two years' separation?
  We have published What options are available to a petitioner to progress a divorce where the respondent has failed to provide their consent to a petition based on two years' separation?