THINGS have come to a pretty pass when a highly regarded City law firm does not know whether it is employing its own staff legally or not. Yet that was the case at Nabarro Nathanson — and no doubt many other law firms — after the Government’s statement about migrant controls last week.
Among the announcements in the Home Office strategy document, Controlling Our Borders: Making Migration Work for Britain, the bombshell was a change in the rules for working holidaymakers. At a stroke many of the City’s backpackers were restricted to no more than 12 months’ employment within a 24-month stay. The net result in the legal sector was that scores of, primarily, young Australian and New Zealand lawyers occupying junior ranks in