Connaught Law Blog

Buying any residential property beyond your only home now carries a 5% surcharge on the whole price — raised from 3% at the October…

From 1 October 2026 the illegal working regime stops being about employees. It reaches workers engaged under a worker’s contract, individual sub-contractors and the…

New overseas recruitment of care workers and senior care workers ended on 22 July 2025 — but the closure came with a three-year tail:…

The Graduate visa’s reduction to 18 months is no longer a proposal — gov.uk now confirms two years for applications made on or before…

RQF Level 6 is the degree-level skill bar that Skilled Worker jobs have had to clear since 22 July 2025 — and the most…

The May 2025 White Paper stopped being a prediction long ago — for employers it is now a delivery schedule, arriving measure by measure.…

There is no official average payout for stress at work in the UK — and any figure claiming otherwise deserves scepticism. What a claim…

Misdiagnosis compensation claims rest on a principle that surprises many families: the claim is not for the illness, but for the difference the diagnostic…

When a marriage ends, English courts divide assets through three principles: needs, sharing and — rarely — compensation. The sharing principle holds that what…

The Parent of a Child Student visa lets one parent live in the UK while their young child — aged 4 to 11 —…

After the family home, pensions are usually the largest asset in a marriage — and the one most often under-valued or traded away badly.…

A broken jaw disrupts eating, speech and work for weeks, and compensation follows those consequences. Under the Judicial College Guidelines (18th edition, April 2026),…