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Ten years of legal freelancing – are we still ‘new’ law?

Matthew Kay and Geraldine Kelm look at the growth of legal freelancing over the past decade

Kingsley Napley and Jenner & Block help resettle former female Afghan judge

Working in a pro bono partnership, the firms aided their shared clients, an Afghan female judge (Y) and her adult son, in obtaining permission to enter the UK. 

Human rights advocates condemn UK's Illegal Migration Bill

The bill will effectively extinguish the right to seek asylum in the UK, say lawyers who have examined the proposed legislation on behalf of human rights charity, Freedom from Torture

Open your eyes to the benefits of a global perspective

Helen Hamilton Shaw presents how international connections can support client retention while boosting your profile and attracting staff

Labour affirms commitment to international law

UK shadow foreign secretary David Lammy says Labour will reinstate ministers' duty to comply with international law and will help create an internation anti-corruption court

UK and Japan sign historic legal commitment

The two nations have signed the first-ever Memorandum of Cooperation on Justice issues in Tokyo

United Nations presses EC on UK exclusion from Lugano Convention

International human rights lawyers have welcomed a move by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights (UN) to ask the European Commission (EC) to justify its position on excluding the United Kingdom (UK) from the cross-border legal cooperation international treaty, the “Lugano Convention”

Permission granted for court challenge over government’s ‘irrational’ criminal legal aid decision

The High Court has granted the Law Society permission to bring a judicial review challenge against the government The application for permission was made after the government failed to increase criminal defence solicitors' legal aid rates by the bare minimum 15%, as recommended by Lord Bellamy's independent review on criminal legal aid.