Connaught Law Blog

The BN(O) visa remains Hong Kongers’ route to Britain: £206 for 30 months or £285 for five years, no job or salary test, and…

A spouse who ignores divorce papers cannot stop your divorce — they can only slow it. The no-fault process has no defence to the…

Habitually resident means the place where your life is genuinely centred — where you live, work, school your children and keep your ties —…

Business interruption insurance replaces the income a business loses when an insured event forces it to stop or scale back trading. It sits alongside…

Whether you can claim on a business interruption policy depends on three things: what triggered the interruption, what your policy wording actually covers, and…

In London Trocadero v Picturehouse Cinemas [2025] EWHC 1247 (Ch), the High Court held that a landlord’s insurance commissions were not recoverable from the…

The Global Talent visa is the UK’s freest work route: no sponsor, no salary threshold, no job offer — any work, for anyone, once…

Back injury compensation UK claims span the widest human range in personal injury: from a lifting strain that resolves in months to spinal damage…

Paragraph 322(5) was the character-and-conduct ground the Home Office used to refuse settlement to skilled migrants over tax discrepancies — until the Court of…

Being suspended from work is unsettling, and it is widely misunderstood — by employers as much as employees. Suspension is not a punishment and…

Judicial review asks whether a decision was made lawfully, not whether it was right. That distinction governs everything about it: the grounds you can…

Judicial review is the process by which the High Court checks whether a public body has acted lawfully. It is not an appeal on…