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Too many young Londoners lack immigration status and too little is done to help them: https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/final_londons_children_and_young_people_who_are_not_british_citizens.pdf #helpingmigrantsinlondon ... See more

Chinese tycoon agrees to buy London mansion for record £200m

Migrants continue to be very important for the London property market.

Cheung Chung-kiu in process of buying 45-room property overlooking Hyde Park

What a waste: ensure migrants and refugees’ qualifications and prior learning are recognized

We agree with UNESCO that the frequent lack of recognition of migrants' qualifications is a major problem - both for migrants and the countries to which they move: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000366312 ... See more

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Tories plan stamp duty hike on non-UK residents

The Conservative Party have said that they will increase taxes on property purchases by non-UK residents: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50511007#

The party says the money raised would go towards tackling rough sleeping.

Vneshprombank LLC v Bedzhamov & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 1992 (19 November 2019)

This case, about a wealthy Russian asylum seeker in London, has a fantastic introduction: "A freezing order against an individual defendant will invariably provide that it "does not prohibit the Respondent from spending £x a week towards his [or her] ordinary living expenses". But some defendants have living expenses which by any normal standards are quite extraordinary." http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2019/1992.html ... See more

(1) The purpose of the freezing order jurisdiction is not to provide a claimant with security but to prevent a defendant from taking steps outside the ordinary course which will have the effect of rendering any judgment unenforceable; subject to this, a defendant should be entitled to do as he wishe... ... See more