In March we held our regular meet up for local Immigration Practitioners. This is hosted by No.8 Chambers at Boston Tea Party, Birmingham and is a great time for local lawyers to network, discuss cases or just catch up. Snaps shown below.

All sole practitioner solicitors are invited to join us on this highly educational, enjoyable, and thought-provoking weekend. Many opportunities will be provided to learn about the profession and business practice, as well as gain insights and advice from the excellent panel of speakers we have lined up. We also invite members of small firms who will find our event extremely useful and an economical way to achieve training objectives. Of course, as with previous conferences, you are most welcome to bring family members to enjoy the hotel and the social side of the weekend.

The speakers will include representatives from the SRA and Law Society of England & Wales.

Adam Pipe of No.8 Chambers will be presenting an Immigration Law Breakout Session at this conference. Click for further details.

Adam Pipe of No.8 Chambers is presenting this legal course along with Mark Symes on 25 March in Birmingham. For further details please visit Private and Family Life

Description

The courts continue to issue a constant flow of decisions regarding private and family life. And at the same time, Brexit comes ever closer. Probably.

Private and family life

• Evaluating the best interests of families with children
• Precarious residence and “compelling” private life claims
• Reasonableness and hypothetical departures: JG Turkey
• New Home Office policy re departure of British citizen children
• The financial requirements for Appendix FM cases
• Exceptionality post-GEN3.2: what is “unjustifiably harsh”
• Chikwamba – returning abroad to seek entry clearance
• “Contriving to frustrate the purpose of the Immigration Rules”
• The high threshold in adult dependent relative cases
• Domestic violence applications
• Human rights claims: refusals and appealability
• The latest thinking re out-of-country appeals
• Plotting an appeal strategy – Home Office consent and “new matters”, and arguments inside and outside the Rules – AK Turkey
• Further representations, fresh claims, and certification
• EU law latest
• Advising on re residence rights in the run-up to 29 March 2019
• Settled status, Appendix EU and permanent residence
• Extended family members and rights of appeal
• Retained rights of residence – proving exercise of Treaty Rights