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.

• Publication: Immigration Act 2016 c.19
  Immigration Act 2016: Immigration Act 2016 c.19
• Sitting: 12/05/2016
  Immigration Act 2016: Not assigned Royal Assent
• Publication: Royal Assent (Hansard)
  Immigration Act 2016: Royal Assent (Hansard)
• Publication: Royal Assent (Minutes of Proceedings)
  Immigration Act 2016: Royal Assent (Minutes of Proceedings)

Family

Family

• New in-house content on combating bullying in the legal workplace
  We have published four blog posts.
• Post-adoption direct contact should only be imposed on unwilling adopters in exceptional circumstances (Court of Appeal)
  In Re B (A child) (Post-adoption contact) [2019] EWCA Civ 29, McFarlane P confirmed that a post-adoption contact order would only be imposed on unwilling adopters in exceptional circumstances.
• Expert is named and ordered to pay costs due to non-compliance with court orders (High Court)
  In Parent A v Parent B [2019] EWHC 406 (Fam), Keehan J named a court appointed expert witness and made a costs order against her because she had failed to file reports in accordance with court orders.