News & Insights from the Changing Legal Landscape

News & Insights from the Changing Legal Landscape

March 27, 2024
Our head of pensions services, Steven Dunn, looks at the legal, financial, and social dimensions surrounding the campaign by the Women Against State Pension Inequality, and draws some parallels with the sentiments expressed in Shakespeare’s play, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’.
January 9, 2024
For Steven Dunn, our head of immigration law, the recent announcement of significant changes to the government’s post-Brexit immigration regime brought to mind not only the 1980s band Orange Juice and their song “rip it up and start again”, but also how much of the government’s immigration policy seems reflected in music from the ‘80s.
October 2, 2023
Following an earlier article on student visas and the right to work in the UK, Steven Dunn, Vialex Head of Immigration law now turns his attention to the Graduate visa route, highlighting what employers and individuals should know about this potentially useful option.
June 27, 2023
With the end of the academic year already upon us, Steven Dunn, Vialex's head of immigration law, offers a timely reminder for international students and employers alike of what the rules say about their right to work.
May 16, 2023
What can Jane Austen, and the American Civil War teach employers about their pension obligations? As one case from the USA shows, they might end up paying pensions for far longer than anyone anticipated. Steven Dunn, Vialex Head of Pensions Services combines his interests in literature and history with his knowledge of pensions, to explain further. Title image - The Angle, Gettysburg (author's own).
March 29, 2023
Steven Dunn Vialex Head of Pensions Services, reviews.
March 6, 2023
The state pension age has become something of a thorny issue for governments across the developed world. Steven Dunn, Head of Pension Services at Vialex, looks at proposed changes to state pension age in France and the UK and the responses to them.
January 23, 2023
Steven Dunn, Head of Immigration Law at Vialex considers whether the conflicting views often expressed about migration, and its potential role in filling gaps in our labour market, might be putting the UK at risk of competitive disadvantage.
December 20, 2022
A UK-India Young Professionals Visa Scheme launches in early 2023. Steven Dunn, Vialex Head of pensions and immigration law, looks at the background to the scheme and the possibility that further trade deals may pave the way for accompanying relaxations in the UK visa regime.
November 30, 2022
Steven Dunn, Vialex Head of Pensions considers whether some radical thinking about pensions is required.
October 13, 2022
Legal Director Steven Dunn, Head of Pensions at Vialex, looks at the problems immediately confronting Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes in this current financial crisis, arising from the Liability Driven Investment (LDI) strategy. What lessons have been learned and what next for trustees of DB schemes?
September 29, 2022
Writing in Daily Business, Vialex Legal Director Steven Dunn looks at at the widespread problems and delays facing employers looking to hire overseas staff under the post-Brexit immigration system, and at some possible solutions available.