Appendix FM was implemented on 9th July 2012 and imposed what are widely regarded as extremely restrictive requirements for bringing Adult Dependent Relatives (ADRs) to the UK. The impact of these rul...
Spectre and Day of the Dead in Mexico City
The Zocalo in Mexico City is the largest plaza in Latin America. It can hold up to nearly 100,000 people. It was used for the spectacular opening sequence in the Bond movie Spectre. I was travelling b...
EEA citizens living and working in the UK – the latest
Brexit Day is 31 October 2019. We don’t know if we will leave then with a Deal or with NoDeal. 3 years and 4 months of comings and goings, of rantings and ravings since the Referendum result and sti...
Innovator and Start up Visas – deader than the Monty Python parrot?
The Government, in its wisdom, through the Home Office, replaced the Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa on 29 March 2019 with 2 new visas called the Start Up vis and the Innovator visa. They did this to tighten...
Supreme Court Decision on Post Termination Restrictive Covenants
In Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd, the Supreme Court, in the first such case for 100 years, has overturned the Court of Appeal decision that a restrictive covenant under which a senior employee agreed not...
How Will Your Activity Online be Affected by The New EU Copyright Directive – ‘Meme Ban’ or Fake News?
Due to rapid developments in technology, online commercial and creative landscapes have changed dramatically including the way in which content is created, produced, distributed and exploited. As a re...
New Immigration rules for Entrepreneurs
Summary Impact of Changes On 29 March 2019 both the Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) and the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) route will be scrapped and replaced by “Start Up” and “Innovator” visas. These ...
Tier 1 Investor Visa Not Suspended
The tier 1 Investor visa, which provides a fast track route to settlement for people willing to invest at least 2 million in the UK for a few years, was to be suspended from midnight 6 December 2018 u...
EU mobility rights within the EU of non-EEA nationals
Since the concept of EU citizenship was introduced in 1993 with the Maastricht Treaty, the European Union has come a long way in protecting the rights of EU citizens who exercise free movement to live...
Brexit and GDPR: What do I need to know?
As we hurriedly approach the March 2019 Brexit deadline, organisations in the United Kingdom and abroad are still ironing out the wrinkles in their new data protection standards and policies. With loo...
