Lawyer Destroyer Short answer No. In England and Wales it is generally unlawful for your employer to punish, victimise or dismiss you because you have complained about, tried to enforce, or asserted your rights to the national minimum wage, holiday pay or other core statutory employment rights. There are specific legal protections against both “detriment” (any disadvantage … Read more
Short answer In most cases, no. Suspension during an investigation should normally be on full pay. Suspension without pay is only lawful in narrow circumstances, and even where a contract appears to allow it there is a real risk of a successful claim if pay is stopped. Whether your employer can do it depends primarily … Read more
Whether these rights apply to a student job Being a student makes no difference to your employment rights. What matters is your legal status at work. Almost everyone doing personal work for a business is either an employee or a worker, and both categories have important rights during disciplinary and grievance processes. A casual, zero-hours, … Read more
Short answer No. A recruitment agency cannot lawfully stop you, the worker, from accepting a permanent job with the company (the hirer) where it placed you. Any restriction on your freedom to take up work directly with the client falls foul of the rules governing employment businesses. The real legal question is not whether you … Read more
Short answer Generally no. If you are supplied to a hirer through an employment business (the type of agency that pays you for temporary work), it is unlawful for the agency to refuse to pay you for work you have actually done simply because the hirer disputes your timesheet, will not authenticate it, is unhappy … Read more
The basic time limit For most employment tribunal claims in England and Wales you have three months minus one day to act. The clock runs from the date the thing you are complaining about happened. Common starting points are: The effective date of termination if you are complaining about dismissal (unfair dismissal, or being dismissed … Read more
Overview: the Common Travel Area The UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands form the Common Travel Area (CTA). There are generally no routine immigration controls on journeys within the CTA, and none at all on the land border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. This is why it is physically possible to … Read more
Overview A Student dependant visa is what the Home Office calls “dependency” leave. It exists only because you are the spouse, civil partner or unmarried partner of a person who holds Student (or certain other) permission in the UK. Your right to remain flows directly from that relationship. When the relationship genuinely breaks down, the … Read more
Overview Your dependants’ permission is legally tied to yours. Under the Student route, a partner or child holds permission as a “dependant of a Student”, and their right to remain depends on you continuing to hold valid Student permission and to be genuinely studying with a licensed sponsor. If anything happens that undermines your own … Read more
Overview A Student visa in the UK is tied to a specific course of study at a specific licensed sponsor (usually your university or college). The sponsor has continuing legal duties to monitor your engagement and to report certain changes to the Home Office. Overseas fieldwork and study-abroad periods are permitted in principle, but only … Read more
Yes, in principle you may be able to recover the costs you wasted and, in some cases, compensation, but whether you can actually succeed depends heavily on the exact facts, on what the university did wrong, and on whether you can show that its error (rather than your own circumstances or Home Office rules) actually … Read more
Short answer Yes, it can be possible, but it is not automatic. The default rule for a dependent child of a Student visa holder is that both of the child’s parents must be in the UK, or coming to the UK with the child, in a permitted immigration status. If the other parent is staying … Read more
The starting point: what “cancellation” means and how notice must be given When UKVI cancels (or curtails) Student permission, that decision only takes legal effect once notice of it has been given in accordance with the Immigration Rules. This matters enormously, because a decision that has not been validly served does not start the clock … Read more
Short answer Yes, in principle a university can withdraw its sponsorship of your Student visa even though an academic appeal or complaint is still outstanding, but whether it will do so depends on the type of decision, the university’s own policy, and the point in the process you have reached. There is no absolute legal … Read more
This concerns the Home Office / UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) student sponsor licence framework, which governs how universities and colleges are allowed to sponsor international students on the Student route. A zero CAS allocation and an action plan are two different UKVI compliance measures, though they often occur together. Here is what each means … Read more
What a CAS is and why accuracy matters A Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) is the electronic record your student sponsor (usually your university or college) creates on the Home Office sponsorship system once they have offered you a place and you have met the conditions of that offer. It is not a document … Read more
Overview of your options If your Graduate visa application is refused, the main route to challenge the decision is an administrative review. The Graduate route is a points-based, in-country immigration category, and the Immigration Rules (Appendix Graduate, paragraph GR 7.2) expressly provide that a refused applicant can apply for an administrative review under Appendix AR. … Read more
Understanding why the refusal matters A Student dependant visa (for a partner or child under the Student route) can be refused for eligibility reasons, evidential reasons, or on suitability grounds. Your options depend heavily on the exact reason given in the refusal letter, so the first and most important step is to read the decision … Read more
What a CAS is and why its status matters A Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) is an electronic record created by your licensed student sponsor on the Home Office sponsorship system. It is not a document you hold; it is a reference number linked to a live record that UK Visas and Immigration checks … Read more
Yes. A previous visa refusal, an overstay, or a breach of visa conditions can all affect a Student visa application, but they do not automatically lead to refusal. The effect depends on what exactly happened, whether deception was involved, how long ago it was, whether you left the UK voluntarily or were removed, and whether … Read more
