The Role of Lawyers, Judges and Country Experts in British Asylum and Immigration Law

Main author: Campbell, John
Format: Journal Article           
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description This paper examines the work of lawyers, judges and country experts involved in asylum and migration litigation. I begin by analysing their work in the wider semi-autonomous asylum field within which a number of powerful institutions operate to shape policy, define the roles of key actors and determine access to legal redress/justice by asylum applicants and migrants. To understand the work of these three legal actors, I analyse four very different types of legal cases involving asylum, foreign adoption and migration law. An analysis of these cases helps to identify the constraints on effective litigation on behalf of refugees and migrants against the British Home Office and it illustrates the fact that it is Home Office policy, and the decisions taken by Home Office officials, that created the injustice for the individuals concerned by blurring the ‘bright line’ differentiating between the rights of nationals and those of ‘foreigners’.
format Journal Article
author Campbell, John
author_facet Campbell, John
authorStr Campbell, John
author_letter Campbell, John
title The Role of Lawyers, Judges and Country Experts in British Asylum and Immigration Law
publisher Cambridge University Press
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32520/