Asylum Law and Practice

Mark Symes, barrister, Garden Court Chambers, UKPeter Jorro, barrister, Garden Court Chambers, UK

• 1. History of the Refugee Convention, Sources of refugee Law and Principles of Interpretation2. Well-founded fear3. Persecution4. The Convention Reasons and Causation5. Procedure and evidence before the First-tier Tribunal6. Counties of Nationality and Habitual residence, Statelessness and the Establishment of Nationality7. Particular Categories of Asylum Seeker8. Cessation, Cancellation and Exclusion 9. The Protection Owed to Refugees10. Common European Asylum System and Subsidiary or Humanitarian Protection11. Asylum and the Human Rights Convention12. Claiming Asylum in the UK13. Treatment of Asylum Seekers14. Third Country Cases15. Procedure Before the First-tier Tribunal; Evidence Before the Immigration and Asylum Chambers16. Challenging the First-tier Tribunal and Procedures in the Upper Tribunal