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Bar Council report highlights serious problems in the civil legal aid system

Tue, 19 January 2021: Report finds civil legal aid "running on an empty tank, kept going by nothing more than the goodwill of the legal profession"

Inspection report on Home Office’s use of sanctions and penalties finds lack of overall strategy and lack of evidence to show they work

Fri, 15 January 2021: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration's second report of the week looks at sanctions and penalties

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration examines the work of Home Office Presenting Officers

Tue, 12 January 2021: New inspection report highlights concerns over training and a lack of preparation time for appeals

Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee concerned by insufficient information over the objective and operation of changes to the asylum process made by December’s HC 1043

Mon, 11 January 2021: Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules criticised for imprecise terms and lack of supporting documentation

New House of Commons Library briefing paper examines the end of the Dublin III Regulation in the UK

Thu, 7 January 2021: Significant changes to returns to safe third countries following end of Brexit transition period and introduction of HC 1043

UNHCR publishes comprehensive new review of statelessness determinations in the UK

Tue, 5 January 2021: First public audit of the Home Office approach to decisions made under the Statelessness Determination Procedure

New statement of changes to the Immigration Rules published as Brexit transition period ends

Thu, 31 December 2020: 12-page statement includes visitor and T5 (Temporary Worker) changes and takes effect at 11pm tonight

In memory of Shindo Maguire, EIN Chief Executive

Wed, 30 December 2020: With much sadness, EIN announces the death of Shindo Maguire

Police inspectorate recommends that police restrict sharing information about vulnerable victims of crime with Home Office Immigration Enforcement

Mon, 21 December 2020: Investigation report published after policing super-complaint submitted by Liberty and Southall Black Sisters

Public Law Project and University of Exeter release results of six-year observational study of asylum appeal hearings in the First-tier Tribunal

Fri, 18 December 2020: New report finds asylum appeal hearings too often lack fairness and accessibility

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Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals, 2021 Edition
The current electronic version of the BPG by Mark Henderson, Rowena Moffatt and Alison Pickup freely available on EIN

ILPA + EIN Directory of experts
The ILPA Directory of Experts on Countries of Origin on the EIN public site

The financial (minimum income) requirement for partner visas
House of Commons Library report on the minimum income threshold in the Immigration Rules, November 2017

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