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Government has named no employers who withhold workers’ tribunal awards despite 3,713 notices

The government is reportedly set to U-turn on axing section 21 evictions which allow landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason.

A new report from the Ministry of Justice demonstrates how government funding has maintained and expanded vital access to free specialist legal advice.

July 24, 2021 LONDON: Older Europeans living in Britain are “particularly vulnerable” to losing their rights, after many failed to apply for the official post-Brexit immigration settlement scheme, a group of UK lawmakers warned on Friday. The House of Lords’ European Affairs Committee said in a lengthy report on British and European citizens’ rights in the new post-Brexit era that just 2 per cent of applications to the UK scheme were from over-65s. The government requires all EU nationals living in Britain before December 31, 2020, to register for a new immigration status managed and...

Last modified on Thu 22 Jul 2021 19.04 EDT Significant numbers of Europeans in the UK aged over 65 failed to apply to the EU settlement scheme (EUSS) before the deadline, a parliamentary report has found, warning that this could make thousands of retirement-aged EU nationals vulnerable to Britain’s hostile environment policies. Just 2% of all applications for the settlement scheme were submitted by people aged over 65, a percentage that is unlikely to reflect the population of older EU nationals living in the UK. Charities supporting older Europeans to apply said they had “encounter...