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Long form pieces on immigration law, artificial intelligence in legal practice, and the professional ethics of both. Written by the people doing the work, not by a marketing department.
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Written for other solicitors rather than for clients. On 17 August 2026 the SRA published a warning notice on the misuse of AI, applying to every regulated firm and individual and closing with the risk of disciplinary action. These two pieces set out what it says, what it does not say, and what it means on a live file. They are explanation, not promotion.
Accountability does not move. The four tests every cited authority must survive, why checking that a case exists satisfies one of them, and where legitimate use of AI ends and unsupervised reliance begins.
Read part one → Part twoThe half getting far less attention. What the Upper Tribunal said about open source tools, what happens to privilege when a confidence is lost, and how a firm satisfies itself before client data goes anywhere near a model.
Read part two →Part two comes with our own AI tool risk assessment, free to download, copy and improve on.
Christopher Dias · 4 September 2026 · 6 min read
The revocation letter never comes with an appeal form, because there is no appeal. What exists instead: the suspension response that decides most cases, reconsideration, the letter before claim and judicial review, and the sixty day clock running underneath all of it.
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Q&A with CQ · 4 August 2026 · 8 min read
Most people prepare a visit visa application around why they want to come to the UK. The caseworker is deciding something else entirely: whether they believe you will leave again. A practical guide to the genuine visitor test, the evidence that answers it, and where applications fail.
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Mar 4 2026 · 9 min read
Artificial intelligence is an extraordinary tool. It can process vast amounts of information simultaneously, identify patterns across thousands of cases that might take a human practitioner years to notice,...
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Feb 25 2026 · 8 min read
My daughter does not value work produced with AI assistance. She is at the start of her career, ambitious, and wants to earn her expertise the hard way. I was surprised by this. If anything, I had expected the...
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Feb 19 2026 · 8 min read
Every good lawyer I have ever worked with falls, broadly, into one of four types.
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