Asylum Law and Practice

'Asylum remains a hugely important area of law, deeply affecting the lives of very many people: the nation's approach to it is a touchstone of our humanity.' - from the foreword to the second edition by The Rt Hon The Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Haywood.

This is the leading practitioner textbook dealing solely with the law and practice pertaining to all aspects of asylum in the UK. It is a decade since the last edition published, since when much has happened in this area, with the most significant being Brexit.

The third edition will be the first post-Brexit refugee practitioner work. It will also give full consideration of the impact of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 on practice and procedure.

The third edition covers:
- Credibility assessment: UNHCR and Beyond Proof, language analysis, family tracing, assessing belief and sexuality
- Assessing risk: assurances, shifting burdens of proof and duties of enquiry, the relevance of inability to return
- Persecution: conscientious objection, future expression of fundamental rights
- Developments in the understanding of vulnerability: the interaction of refugee law with trafficking, statelessness and gender preference issues
- Exclusion for wrongdoing, for access to rights akin to nationality, and for non-UNHCR protection
- Cessation of status: family members, change of circumstances, and relevance of internal relocation
- Third country cases: returns under and beyond Dublin 3, third country returns post-Brexit
- Procedures - asylum claims in detention, delays in determining claims, family reunion

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Immigration and Nationality Law online service.

List of contents

1. History of the Refugee Convention, Sources of refugee Law and Principles of Interpretation
2. Well-founded fear
3. Persecution
4. The Convention Reasons and Causation
5. Procedure and evidence before the First-tier Tribunal
6. Counties of Nationality and Habitual residence, Statelessness and the Establishment of Nationality
7. Particular Categories of Asylum Seeker
8. Cessation, Cancellation and Exclusion
9. The Protection Owed to Refugees
10. Common European Asylum System and Subsidiary or Humanitarian Protection
11. Asylum and the Human Rights Convention
12. Claiming Asylum in the UK
13. Treatment of Asylum Seekers
14. Third Country Cases
15. Procedure Before the First-tier Tribunal; Evidence Before the Immigration and Asylum Chambers
16. Challenging the First-tier Tribunal and Procedures in the Upper Tribunal

About the author

Mark Symes has represented clients in every court from the Tribunal to the Supreme Court, and the European Court of Human Rights. He sits as a part-time judge of the Upper Tribunal and First-tier Tribunal. He is a contributor to Macdonald's Immigration Law and Practice and has long been one of the experts who specialist immigration lawyers go to, in order to make sure they are up to speed with the latest legal arguments. He has spoken at the conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges.Peter Jorro practices in all areas of immigration law at all levels, including as junior counsel in the Supreme Court. He has a wealth of experience and success in asylum, ‘Points Based System’, business, ‘sponsorship’, EEA, family and general immigration cases both on appeal and on judicial review. He advises a number of solicitors’ firms in relation to cases involving immigration problems for high net worth individuals and businesses and also represents asylum applicants from many countries at all levels of ‘profile’. He has advised in both extradition and family law cases in respect to immigration and asylum related issues.

Summary

The leading practitioner textbook dealing solely with the law and practice pertaining to all aspects of asylum in the UK.

The third edition gives full consideration of the impact Brexit, the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the Illegal Migration Act 2023 on practice and procedure, covering:
- Credibility assessment
- Assessing risk
- Persecution
- Developments in the understanding of vulnerability
- Exclusion for wrongdoing, for access to rights akin to nationality, and for non-UNHCR protection
- Cessation of status
- Third country cases
- Procedures

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Immigration and Nationality Law online service.

Foreword

This work is devoted exclusively to the substantive law and practice surrounding the legal representation of those seeking to remain in the UK as refugees, or whose removal would otherwise breach their human rights.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Jorro, Jorro Peter, Mark Symes, Symes Mark
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.06.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781526516855
• ISBN: 978-1-5265-1685-5
• No. of pages: 1152
• Weight: 600 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, immigration law, Wales / Cymru