⚡ We're proud to have served the immigration law practitioners' community for 40 years - and last night we were delighted to join with a selection of ILPA’s founders, Trustees, Co-convenors and staff, past and present, to mark 40 years of ILPA 🍾 1/2
February 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
⚡ We're proud to have served the immigration law practitioners' community for 40 years - and last night we were delighted to join with a selection of ILPA’s founders, Trustees, Co-convenors and staff, past and present, to mark 40 years of ILPA 🍾 1/2
“We call upon the Government to lead by example: to change the narrative, end the use of divisive rhetoric, treat everyone in society with dignity and respect…, put an end to policies that treat refugees as ‘illegal’… and foster a culture in which local communities are places of welcome and unity.”
ILPA Statement on the Anniversary of the Summer 2024 Riots - ILPA
Following the tragic events in Southport, last summer saw numerous outbreaks of far-right violence, aggression and intimidation across the UK. The riots did not occur in isolation, but were fuelled […...
ilpa.org.uk
July 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“We call upon the Government to lead by example: to change the narrative, end the use of divisive rhetoric, treat everyone in society with dignity and respect…, put an end to policies that treat refugees as ‘illegal’… and foster a culture in which local communities are places of welcome and unity.”
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Also ILPA on private equity disclosure, buying MicroStrategy volatility, collared Bitcoin ETFs and a Trumpcoin ETF.
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January 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Il pensiero di tutti il lunedì mattina, nei #peanuts di oggi:
Peanuts 2025 febbraio 10 - Il Post
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February 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Il pensiero di tutti il lunedì mattina, nei #peanuts di oggi:
The paper makes clear that the proposed changes would be a very significant shift from the previous position in the UK, and in the large majority of equivalent countries.
ilpa.org.uk/ilpa-briefin...
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ILPA Briefing Paper: Earned Settlement – A Policy without Precedent (April 2026) - ILPA
ILPA has issued a briefing paper on the Government’s Earned Settlement proposals. Our thanks to Professor Bernard Ryan, Professor of Migration Law at the University of Leicester, for producing this […...
ilpa.org.uk
May 1, 2026 at 9:06 AM
The paper makes clear that the proposed changes would be a very significant shift from the previous position in the UK, and in the large majority of equivalent countries.
ilpa.org.uk/ilpa-briefin...
ilpa.org.uk/ilpa-briefin...
“By keeping families apart, the UK’s strict family migration rules, including the minimum income requirement, are harming people’s relationships, financial stability, mental health and well-being, with significant long-term implications, not least for children”
ilpa.org.uk/rescuing-lov...
ilpa.org.uk/rescuing-lov...
Rescuing Love from the Hostile Environment - ILPA
BY MATTEO BESANA By keeping families apart, the UK’s strict family migration rules, including the minimum income requirement, are harming people’s relationships, financial stability, mental health and...
ilpa.org.uk
February 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“By keeping families apart, the UK’s strict family migration rules, including the minimum income requirement, are harming people’s relationships, financial stability, mental health and well-being, with significant long-term implications, not least for children”
ilpa.org.uk/rescuing-lov...
ilpa.org.uk/rescuing-lov...
⚡ Huge congratulations to ILPA Patron @berryadrianc.bsky.social for his richly deserved appointment 👏👏👏
📣 It's #SilksDay! Congratulations to our Adrian Berry (@berryadrianc.bsky.social), who has been appointed #KingsCounsel today! #DoRightFearNoOne👏👏👏
Find out more 🔽
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Find out more 🔽
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(Right photo credit: Jess Hurd 📸)
March 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
⚡ Huge congratulations to ILPA Patron @berryadrianc.bsky.social for his richly deserved appointment 👏👏👏
Private equity investor body sounds alarm on ‘conflict vehicles’ ft.trib.al/3dYOb6j
Private equity investor body sounds alarm on ‘conflict vehicles’
Continuation vehicles and rush for retail money are driving problematic behaviour by industry, warns ILPA executive
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May 3, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Private equity investor body sounds alarm on ‘conflict vehicles’ ft.trib.al/3dYOb6j
Very sad to hear that Jim Gillespie has died. A former colleague of mine at Renaissance Chambers, he was a passionate and devoted advocate of migrants rights. A founder member of ILPA, he was also editor of the Immigration Law Handbook with Margaret Phelan and the IANL journal.
September 14, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Very sad to hear that Jim Gillespie has died. A former colleague of mine at Renaissance Chambers, he was a passionate and devoted advocate of migrants rights. A founder member of ILPA, he was also editor of the Immigration Law Handbook with Margaret Phelan and the IANL journal.
Access to legal aid deficit in asylum cases is now up to 57%, or at least 54,555 people unable to access a legal aid lawyer for an asylum application or appeal. Details and calculations in my blog post for ILPA here: ilpa.org.uk/stemming-the...
Stemming the Tide: The Case for Demarketising the Legal Aid Sector - ILPA
BY DR JO WILDING Latest figures reveal that for the first time there was a net decline in the number of immigration and asylum legal aid providers in the September […]
ilpa.org.uk
November 6, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Access to legal aid deficit in asylum cases is now up to 57%, or at least 54,555 people unable to access a legal aid lawyer for an asylum application or appeal. Details and calculations in my blog post for ILPA here: ilpa.org.uk/stemming-the...
A hugely stimulating Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) AGM with fine updates on its necessary work on #Immigrationpolicy
November 27, 2024 at 6:10 PM
A hugely stimulating Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) AGM with fine updates on its necessary work on #Immigrationpolicy
From yesterday: Job Ad: Chief Executive, Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) | Free Movement
Job Ad: Chief Executive, Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) - Free Movement
Job title: Chief Executive
freemovement.org.uk
April 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
From yesterday: Job Ad: Chief Executive, Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) | Free Movement
Day 10: What's your experience with spirit communication?
I’m a certified medium through the ILPA, I spent 8 months learning how I commune with spirits. I am clairaudient, clairvoyant, and clairsentience. Anyone can develop these skills, it’s understanding how spirit speaks to you. #WitchMadness
I’m a certified medium through the ILPA, I spent 8 months learning how I commune with spirits. I am clairaudient, clairvoyant, and clairsentience. Anyone can develop these skills, it’s understanding how spirit speaks to you. #WitchMadness
March 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Day 10: What's your experience with spirit communication?
I’m a certified medium through the ILPA, I spent 8 months learning how I commune with spirits. I am clairaudient, clairvoyant, and clairsentience. Anyone can develop these skills, it’s understanding how spirit speaks to you. #WitchMadness
I’m a certified medium through the ILPA, I spent 8 months learning how I commune with spirits. I am clairaudient, clairvoyant, and clairsentience. Anyone can develop these skills, it’s understanding how spirit speaks to you. #WitchMadness
BIE has been trying to engage with the Home Office on this topic for a year. We wrote to SoS Yvette Cooper last May and still have not received a written reply. Two recent calls with officials have not got us a grace period so we’ve sent another letter with the3million and ILPA bit.ly/4cOcZ3Q
February 26, 2026 at 10:54 AM
BIE has been trying to engage with the Home Office on this topic for a year. We wrote to SoS Yvette Cooper last May and still have not received a written reply. Two recent calls with officials have not got us a grace period so we’ve sent another letter with the3million and ILPA bit.ly/4cOcZ3Q
What is the ILPA?
March 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
What is the ILPA?
In case you missed it: Job ad: ILPA are recruiting a Training Manager | Free Movement
Job ad: ILPA are recruiting a Training Manager - Free Movement
Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA)
freemovement.org.uk
December 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
In case you missed it: Job ad: ILPA are recruiting a Training Manager | Free Movement
News: ILPA highlights 20 things you might not know about Home Office’s earned settlement proposals via EIN
ILPA highlights 20 things you might not know about Home Office’s earned settlement proposals
Briefing paper points out that headline 10-year qualifying period for ILR will not apply to majority of applicants
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October 1, 2026 at 9:04 AM
News: ILPA highlights 20 things you might not know about Home Office’s earned settlement proposals via EIN
New from Free Movement: Job Ad: ILPA are recruiting a Legal Project Officer | Free Movement
Job Ad: ILPA are recruiting a Legal Project Officer - Free Movement
Legal Project Officer, Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA)
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March 30, 2026 at 9:56 AM
New from Free Movement: Job Ad: ILPA are recruiting a Legal Project Officer | Free Movement
"We would urge anyone seeking immigration advice to ensure they approach a regulated advisor so they are not caught up in schemes such as the ones uncovered by the BBC. None of the individuals or organisations exposed in the reports are current ILPA members". ilpa.org.uk/ilpa-stateme...
ILPA Statement in Response to BBC Coverage of Fraudulent Immigration Advisers - ILPA
It is deeply regrettable that due to the actions of the unscrupulous few, many of our members experience hostility simply for discharging their professional duties: this is unacceptable and we […]
ilpa.org.uk
April 16, 2026 at 4:49 PM
"We would urge anyone seeking immigration advice to ensure they approach a regulated advisor so they are not caught up in schemes such as the ones uncovered by the BBC. None of the individuals or organisations exposed in the reports are current ILPA members". ilpa.org.uk/ilpa-stateme...
New: Job ad: ILPA are recruiting a Legal Officer — by Free Movement
Job ad: ILPA are recruiting a Legal Officer - Free Movement
Contract: Permanent.
freemovement.org.uk
August 19, 2026 at 9:15 AM
New: Job ad: ILPA are recruiting a Legal Officer — by Free Movement
In case you missed it: Job Ad: Chief Executive, Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) | Free Movement
Job Ad: Chief Executive, Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) - Free Movement
Job title: Chief Executive
freemovement.org.uk
April 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
In case you missed it: Job Ad: Chief Executive, Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) | Free Movement
Some analysis for @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social of the Home Office's recent 'clarification' of its guidance on good character & naturalisation. I focus on trafficking and violence against women, but also consider discrimination and penalisation.
ilpa.org.uk/a-dangerous-...
ilpa.org.uk/a-dangerous-...
A Dangerous Journey?: The Good Character Requirement, Naturalisation, Trafficking, and Discrimination against Women - ILPA
BY CATHERINE BRIDDICK Following the Home Office’s change to immigration staff guidance on assessing the good character requirement in nationality applications, Catherine Briddick, human rights and ref...
ilpa.org.uk
March 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Some analysis for @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social of the Home Office's recent 'clarification' of its guidance on good character & naturalisation. I focus on trafficking and violence against women, but also consider discrimination and penalisation.
ilpa.org.uk/a-dangerous-...
ilpa.org.uk/a-dangerous-...