About us
What is EIN?
Electronic Immigration Network (EIN) is the UK's largest specialist provider of information on immigration and refugee law via the internet. We've been online since 1998.
EIN provides an online resource for immigration practitioners and for others with an interest with immigration, including immigrants and asylum seekers, students, journalists, judges, academics and researchers.
The EIN website comprises two main areas: the Public Site and the Members’ Site. The public site gives access to news and updates on immigration, as well as events and immigration law jobs.
The Members Site gives access to our unique databases that contain case law, legislation and general immigration resources. It provides the only forum where there is easy access to all immigration and asylum-related decisions from the Tribunal up to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
EIN is a registered charity (Registered Charity No: 1059147).
1 Delaunays Road
Crumpsall Green
Manchester
M8 4QS
Tel: 0845 458 4151
E-mail: info@ein.org.uk
Joining EIN
EIN is a membership organisation and joining EIN gets you access to the materials on the EIN Members' site (click here to join). EIN members range from the judiciary to small NGOs. Our core member base is legal practitioners. If you are an immigration or asylum practitioner, EIN membership gives you a comprehensive range of resources at an affordable price.
EIN membership gets you access to the following:
Case law
The EIN website launched back in 1998 in order to make immigration Tribunal decisions available electronically. The EIN Case law database has since grown into a unique resource, with the full text of thousands of immigration decisions, with Immigration Tribunal determinations and selected key judgments from UK higher courts and European courts. All decisions are chosen for their relevance to immigration and refugee law, saving you time sifting through general legal databases to find relevant immigration cases.
In addition, experienced legal practitioners add EIN 'index terms' to classify cases by keywords or phrases. You can see at a glance if a case might be relevant, and you can search by index terms to find relevant cases. Important cases feature a EIN headnote summary, written for EIN by a leading immigration barrister.
Legislation and Resources
EIN maintain databases of relevant immigration legislation and resources. From annotated versions of the Procedure Rules through to the full text of the current Immigration Rules and the full text of key Acts of Parliament.
Country information
The country information on EIN is provided by HJT Research. It has been available on EIN since 2002 and has grown into a massively comprehensive resource for asylum practitioners and those interested in human rights conditions in refugee producing countries. It contains over 130,000 reports (as of September 2011) and is updated daily with the latest country information. Every country covered has its own separate homepage, with reports categorised by type and publisher, making it easy to navigate and find relevant content.
And you can use the country reports in conjunction with the special 'bundle' feature (see below) to create fully paginated and indexed Microsoft Word format court bundles.
Bundle function
The unique EIN bundle feature has been available since 2002. It enables you to add EIN materials to user created bundles of documents. Any one of the 140,000 cases or country reports on EIN can be added to a bundle with a single click. And you can then turn your document bundles into court-ready, fully paginated and indexed Microsoft Word format bundles via a special add-in for Microsoft Word (for all versions of Microsoft Word from 97 to 2010).
You can even highlight key passage to automatically create your required schedule of essential reading. And you can edit these bundles like a normal Word document and add your own materials, including your own text and Word documents. The latest version of the software even allows you to add PDF files. You can watch a brief video of creating a bundle here.
If you have to create bundles for the Tribunal, the EIN bundle function will save you countless hours of work.
Advanced searching
EIN is fully searchable via an advanced, high speed search engine. The search is exceptionally intelligent yet simple and easy to use. You can search the whole of EIN or you can choose to search each database individually. Results can be sorted by relevance or by date, easily letting you find the most relevant or the most recent materials.
How do I join and how much does it cost?
Prices to join EIN are available here (to access the country reports on EIN, you will need to take out a joint EIN/HJT membership or a HJT Only membership).
You can join EIN by signing up here.
If you have any questions about joining EIN, please e-mail admin@ein.org.uk