Insights

Writing from the practice.

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.

Q&A with CQ: the UK Standard Visitor visa

The visit visa is won on one question.

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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soul power.

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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Generation AI?

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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The rise of the Superlawyer

Every good lawyer I have ever worked with falls, broadly, into one of four types.

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