Sentences with phrase «of asylum law»

Combining up - to - date case law, cutting edge legal arguments on currently developing issues and decades of expertise from accomplished practitioners who have successfully represented clients through the years, Essentials of Asylum Law offers an expansive explanation of the legal theories and rules underpinning current asylum claims.

«The Essentials of Asylum Law is an incredible resource that has provided attorneys in our pro bono law clinic with so much practical information and knowledge; it has made answering even the most complicated client questions a breeze.»

The third edition of this comprehensive survey of the basic elements of asylum law now includes a thorough overview of asylum procedure, complete with practice tips for preparing asylum claims for unaccompanied minors.

A Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal and a fellow of the Refugee Law Initiative at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Mark is co-author of Asylum Law and Practice — «encyclopaedic... pre-eminent» according to one Supreme Court judge, and co-author of Immigration Appeals and Remedies Handbook --(«invaluable... to the armoury of all... a compulsory addition to the library of every immigration judge and practitioner»: President of the Upper Tribunal Mr Justice McCloskey).

However, a meaningful insulation of asylum law from criminal law is impossible to maintain in practice and it is inevitable that the exclusion clause is closely connected with counter-terrorism law.

This is the main reason why this is a huge judgment in the field of asylum law: it goes into the concept of persecution, and the role that human rights play in defining the refugee.

Not exact matches

The Trudeau government has been looking for solutions to the challenge of northbound asylum seekers, but condoning this particular idea would be a grotesque way of accomplishing that for any country that respects international law and the principle of refugee protection.

We civilized men... do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of everyone to the last moment....

But traditionally, law enforcement officials have abided by a sort of unspoken code about houses of worship offering asylum.

Finland announced a plan to deport 20,000 of the 32,000 migrants it took in last year, and Germany proposed a law that would speed up the asylum process, streamline deportation, and make protected refugees wait two years before bringing their families to join them.

Israel has a law which allows for most Jewish people to immigrate, regardeless of their asylum status.

He also rightly pointed out that the principle of «diplomatic asylum», while recognized by Latin American states in a treaty from the 1950s, is not established as a general principle of international law.

There is a disconnect between law and practice whereby the EU is continually reforming the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) but seems incapable of implementing it.

In November 2008, Woolas attacked lawyers and charities working on behalf of asylum seekers, accusing them of undermining the law and «playing the system» by taking legal action.

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The EU's asylum laws were designed in the 1990s to handle small numbers of people.

The lunatics are running the asylum — and they all believe in the First Law of Thermodynamics.

The project has brought together volunteer researchers from all around the world with aim to conduct 28 reports regarding the situation of refugees, the asylum system and national laws in 28 member - states of the EU.

South Africa's asylum law is an asylum policy based on self - settlement / integration and self - sufficiency.9 It has been praised by the UNHCR as one of the most progressive in the world.

(Asylum seekers who turn themselves in at a point of entry and request asylum, the procedure outlined by international treaty, break no Asylum seekers who turn themselves in at a point of entry and request asylum, the procedure outlined by international treaty, break no asylum, the procedure outlined by international treaty, break no laws.)

In this post on EU asylum law, Louis takes the occasion of a Dutch court referring this exact question to the CJEU to introduce us to the difficulties and pitfalls of verification of the sexual orientation of asylum seekers before national authorities.

The Court further pointed out that as «the duration of an asylum procedure may be relevant and that, in particular in periods of substantial surges in applications for international protection, the time laid down by EU law are often exceed it» making the right to family reunification depend upon the moment when the asylum procedure is closed would de facto have the effect of nullifying that right and the protection under Article 10 (3)(a)(para 57).

After a fitful start, the EU has become a major actor in the area of criminal law, and in particular anti-terrorist law, on the one hand and in asylum law on the other.

The decision is a victory for refugee protection and international criminal responsibility as well as for Canadian principles of asylum, criminal law, and fundamental justice.

Amy boasts impressive credentials, including participating in the WVU Immigration Law Clinic, where she assisted multiple clients in obtaining political asylum, and a successful appeal through the Seventh Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Projects run the spectrum of legal work from representing voting rights organizations and individual voters in federal and state courts, immigration and asylum efforts assisting detainees and victims of domestic violence to partnering with commercial clients» in - house counsel on naturalization and consumer law projects, and collaborating with a non-profit to advise their grant recipients on topics including contracts, corporate governance, and tax issues.

Those surveyed came from Citizens Advice, law centres, legal aid, National Offender Management Services, Ministry of Justice, Crown Prosecution Service, HMCTS, HM Prison Service, CAFCASS, Office of the Public Guardian, Probation and Youth Justice, as well as various courts ranging from the Immigration and Asylum Chamber to the Crown Court.

While in law school, Irene participated in the Human Rights & Asylum Clinic and completed legal externships for judges of the Connecticut Superior Court and at The Hartford.

During law school, Erick helped families apply for asylum, interned with the ACLU of Montana and served on its board, worked on consumer protection issues with Montana's Office of Consumer Protection, and worked as an Agricultural Worker outreach intern with MLSA.

Well, there exist various networks; formal networks, less formal networks, I believe there is a network for national judges in asylum cases; in administrative law there is an important network called ACA which is run officially by the Belgian Council of State; there is a network of competition law judges.

Immigration and asylum law is a key area where the Executive branch of government has extensive and far reaching powers that allows drastic interference in the private and family lives of citizens.

However, though national authorities and courts of all Member States of the EU are still bound by the ECHR and other relevant international law when applying national immigration and asylum law, their scope of application may not reach as far as the Charter would have reached, and at present is regarded as applicable to potential applicants for international protection that have not yet entered the territories of the states bound by them.

Maarten currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University on a project about quantification in the public sector, and is a member of the Meijers Committee, an expert body on EU migration, asylum, criminal, and institutional law.

Kristen Martin of Whittier Law School teaches an international law section that is intended to support the school's Center for International and Comparative Law.83 Tom Cobb at the University of Washington School of Law has taught an asylum law elective practicum within the first - year LRW program that encompasses research on international human rights norms and laws of other countries.84 Syracuse University College of Law has two LRW sections with an international law focus.85 The students work on an international human rights issue in addition to a traditional domestic brief problem during the spring semesterLaw School teaches an international law section that is intended to support the school's Center for International and Comparative Law.83 Tom Cobb at the University of Washington School of Law has taught an asylum law elective practicum within the first - year LRW program that encompasses research on international human rights norms and laws of other countries.84 Syracuse University College of Law has two LRW sections with an international law focus.85 The students work on an international human rights issue in addition to a traditional domestic brief problem during the spring semesterlaw section that is intended to support the school's Center for International and Comparative Law.83 Tom Cobb at the University of Washington School of Law has taught an asylum law elective practicum within the first - year LRW program that encompasses research on international human rights norms and laws of other countries.84 Syracuse University College of Law has two LRW sections with an international law focus.85 The students work on an international human rights issue in addition to a traditional domestic brief problem during the spring semesterLaw.83 Tom Cobb at the University of Washington School of Law has taught an asylum law elective practicum within the first - year LRW program that encompasses research on international human rights norms and laws of other countries.84 Syracuse University College of Law has two LRW sections with an international law focus.85 The students work on an international human rights issue in addition to a traditional domestic brief problem during the spring semesterLaw has taught an asylum law elective practicum within the first - year LRW program that encompasses research on international human rights norms and laws of other countries.84 Syracuse University College of Law has two LRW sections with an international law focus.85 The students work on an international human rights issue in addition to a traditional domestic brief problem during the spring semesterlaw elective practicum within the first - year LRW program that encompasses research on international human rights norms and laws of other countries.84 Syracuse University College of Law has two LRW sections with an international law focus.85 The students work on an international human rights issue in addition to a traditional domestic brief problem during the spring semesterLaw has two LRW sections with an international law focus.85 The students work on an international human rights issue in addition to a traditional domestic brief problem during the spring semesterlaw focus.85 The students work on an international human rights issue in addition to a traditional domestic brief problem during the spring semester.86

At a time in which some of the Member States have a 98 % recognition rate for Syrian asylum seekers from Aleppo, denying protection to those who would like to file an application for international protection but who are unable or unwilling to try and reach Europe's shores by crossing the Mediterranean in a dinghy, any other conclusion would have raised serious doubts with regard to the EU's commitment to refugee and human rights law.

Areas that the Assembly has no jurisdiction to legislate on — excepted matters — are defined fully in NIA 1998, Sch 2 and include: the Crown; the UK Parliament; Parliamentary elections; the franchise; international relations; defence; nuclear weapons; nationality; immigration; asylum; UK tax law; national insurance contributions; the appointment and removal of judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland and other judges; elections; and national security.

If the Court were to follow the opinion of AG Mengozzi in this particular case, this could have a serious impact on the legal landscape and context of EU immigration and asylum law.

Furthermore, the situation of asylum seekers or refugees living in the neighboring countries of Syria are reported to be disastrous and their standard of life far below the minimum standards foreseen in applicable international human rights law instruments.

She advocates, speaks and writes regularly on issues relating to the human rights of refugees and migrants, including legal representation, detention, U.S. asylum law and policy, and protection from xenophobic and bias - motivated violence.

Developments in counter-terrorism law have thus had a direct influence in broadening the application of the exclusion clause in EU asylum law.

On the one hand there is an effort to maintain the distinction between counter-terrorism law and asylum law and to maintain the integrity and coherence of the asylum acquis as something distinct and serving different purposes to counter-terrorism law.

This is the true innovation in Lounani and it fits EU asylum law within the broader thrust of global and EU counter-terrorism law to target not only direct terrorist acts of violence but rather to adopt an aggressively preventative approach towards the suppression of terrorist activity through the disruption of the peripheral acts involved in the organisation and funding of terrorism.

Mark Symes specialises in all aspects of immigration law; he has appeared in many leading cases involving asylum, human rights and public law.

Continuing on with our very special Raising the Bar interviews, Mark Symes talks to Lawyer Monthly about his work in immigration & asylum, with particular expertise on the implications of Brexit on EU and UK business immigration law.

It seems that now, in light of Lounani and the extension of the exclusion clause, it is increasingly the case that asylum law is also being drafted into the service of global counter-terrorism efforts.

The current legal situation here is that if he were to be named, this would put him in danger in his home country, given his past actions and consequences in the UK, which in turn would sabotage the prospect of deportation in itself as he would have to receive asylum under human rights law.

The necessary connection between the two areas of law — criminal and asylum — becomes apparent in Lounani at three points in particular: at the procedural level, at a conceptual level and finally and most importantly at the normative level.

This link however takes place not at the level of EU law and the relationship between EU counter-terrorism law and EU asylum law but rather in the context of the vertical relationship between UN counter-terrorism law and EU asylum law.

She gave five reasons in particular why the scope of the exclusion clause should not be limited to the offenses outlined in Article 1 FDCT: firstly the wording refers to acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN and is not limited to terrorist offenses; secondly, such an interpretation would be at odds with the Geneva Convention in light of which the Qualification Directive should be interpreted; thirdly, the Qualification Directive as an instrument of asylum and humanitarian law and the FDCT are qualitatively different and derive from different areas of law; fourthly, it would unduly restrict the application of the exclusion clause and finally, fifthly, the fact that the FDCT is an instrument of variable geometry with varying application across the Union would lead to problems if it were used as criteria in defining terms for the purposes of the application of the Qualification Directive.