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MAY 2006
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"Ich Bin EIN HEADLEINs" - not a 'Berliner',
like the new Guardian, not even a newspaper, nor a newsletter.
EIN
is a voluntary sector, membership organisation; its primary
object is website publishing in Immigration Law, and its
connected fields, and HEADLEINs is a new on-line publication
for EIN members, to highlight the latest developments with
a 'nose' for contemporary and future relevance, not in a
journalistic 'news' sense, but in the sense of shifting
parameters, definitions and rules often swayed suddenly
and subject to strong socio/political currents - a characteristic
phenomenon in this field, in which yet another new statute
is now passed, a new Home Secretary is now in post, and
reflex-action revisions of the rules for deportation of
'foreign criminals' have been foretold, fuelled by media
floodlights on the issue of release of offenders without
deportation.
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This
first issue of 'HEADLEINs' therefore has a certain 'criminal
element', reflecting a social atmosphere in which criminality,
immigration and refuge and protection under international
treaty are becoming conflated and confused, and the future
of critical international conventions is itself not surely
predictable.
As Frances
Webber has written recently ( 'Asylum - From Deterrence
to Criminalisation' - see Digest 'Rapid Links) ;"When
asylum law is drafted within a criminal law framework, it
is inevitable that the human rights parameters...will be
undermined.."
...and
to paraphrase the Director of 'Liberty', Shami Chakrabarti,
prisons are for prisoners who need to be there, the danger
is society becoming a prison.
Not
all HEADLEINs will suit all EIN members all of the time;
the individual and organisational members of EIN belong
to different constituencies of interest, both in the UK
and overseas in countries such as the Netherlands, Hong
Kong and New Zealand, as lawyers, judges, academics, librarians,
students, trainee solictors and pupil barristers. The HEADLEINs
will endeavour to contain at least something for all. It
is scheduled for production on a flexible 4-6 weekly basis,
and importantly, has been made financially possible by the
charitable trusts of the TSB and Esme Fairburn Foundation.
The
core of the HEADLEINs will be the Headleins
Bulletin, plus additional features and its fertile growth
as a publication will rely upon special contributions from
EIN members:
For
comments, suggestions and contributions, please write to
the Editor, EIN.
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ISSUE 1 MAY 2006
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BULLETIN ISSUE 1 |
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HEADLEINs
BULLETIN
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Welcome
to the very first issue of the "HEADLEINs
BULLETIN", a condensed 'recapture'
of the highlights which have appeared on
the EIN 'front page' in recent weeks, but
have now disappeared from immediate visibility
as the revolving doors of the highlight
page bring new highlights into view.
As an embellishment of caselaw listings,
there is a 'Bulletin
Supplement' ; a separate page linked
from the Bulletin, carrying caselaw 'Headnotes'
, some brief, some more expansive,on itemised
legal points, for selected cases. The 'Rapid
Links' column gives a direct route to this
and other pages.
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| The
IAN Act 2006 - Analytical summary |
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"The
Immigration Asylum & Nationality Act
2006 - In context" by David Jones....."the
fifth major piece of legislation in the
field of asylum and immigration in the last
thirteen years......"more
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| BOOK
REVIEW |
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“Immigration
advice at the police station”
by Rosie Brennan (3rd Edition, Law Society
Publishing 2006)
Bifurcated
reviews, by Katie Green from an Immigration
Law perspective, and Oliver Windridge, from
a Criminal Law perspective. more
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| INDIVIDUAL
PROFILE - Habib Rahman of JCWI |
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Habib
Rahman, Chief Executive of JCWI: "All
the bad publicity [about immigration] in the
tabloid press and other irresponsible media
has not helped to carry on a reasoned and
intelligent debate." more
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| OISC
Consultation |
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The
Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
(OISC) is an independent body, which regulates
the providers of immigration advice or immigration
services....more
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| BOOK
PRIZE: Just 3 questions, and 3 book prizes |
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"The
Immigration, Nationality & Refugee Law
Handbook 2006" by
Duran Seddon, JCWI 2006
"Cross
Border Crime: Defence rights in a new era
of international judicial cooperation"
by Marisa Leaf (Ed) Justice 2006
"Immigration
Advice at the Police Station" by
Rosie Brennan (Law Society Publishing 2006)
more
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| Project
Profile - Bury Law Centre |
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Bury
Law Centre was started in summer 2003
to provide free legal advice on housing, employment
and immigration. The centre had a contract
with the Legal Services Commission (the government
body responsible for legal aid in England
and Wales), the funding from which underwrote
the totality of its costs......more |
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Acknowledgements
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'HEADLEINs' is published by EIN: www.ein.org.uk
and made possible by the financial support from the charitable
trusts of Lloyds TSB and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation,
to whom special thanks are owed.
HEADLEINs Editor: John Dean/Editor,EIN
Technical & Design Co-ordinator: Les Mugridge
Editorial Board: Gail Elliman, Mark Symes, Clyde James,
George Brown, Tim Eicke, Dallal Stevens, Louis Julienne
Special Contributors: John F Kelly (HJT/ICCID), Maggie Crabtree
(EIN), Louis Julienne, Temp (Maternity cover) Director,
EIN, and for 'individual' and 'project profiles', Mark Symes
(Garden Court), Emily Fisher (Illustrator) and for the book
reviews, Katie Green and Oliver Windridge.
Special thanks also to JCWI, JUSTICE and LAW SOCIETY PUBLISHERS
for their generous donations of their latest publications
to the 'Book Prize'
Disclaimer:
The materials and information provided on the EIN website
are provided "as is." No warranty of any kind,
implied, expressed, or statutory, including freedom from
computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of
this web site or its links to other Internet resources.
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