
Asylum Law and Practice
Bloomsbury Professional (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Will be published approx. on 12. November 2026
Book
Hardback
1152 pages
978-1-5265-1685-5 (ISBN)
Description
The leading practitioner textbook dealing solely with the law and practice pertaining to all aspects of asylum in the UK.
The Third Edition gives full consideration of the impact Brexit, the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the Illegal Migration Act 2023 on practice and procedure, covering:
- Credibility assessment
- Assessing risk
- Persecution
- Developments in the understanding of vulnerability
- Exclusion for wrongdoing, for access to rights akin to nationality, and for non-UNHCR protection
- Cessation of status
- Third country cases
- Procedures
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Immigration and Nationality Law online service.
The Third Edition gives full consideration of the impact Brexit, the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the Illegal Migration Act 2023 on practice and procedure, covering:
- Credibility assessment
- Assessing risk
- Persecution
- Developments in the understanding of vulnerability
- Exclusion for wrongdoing, for access to rights akin to nationality, and for non-UNHCR protection
- Cessation of status
- Third country cases
- Procedures
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Immigration and Nationality Law online service.
More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5265-1685-5 (9781526516855)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Mark Symes, barrister, Garden Court Chambers, UK
Peter Jorro, barrister, Garden Court Chambers, UK
Peter Jorro, barrister, Garden Court Chambers, UK
Content
1. History of the Refugee Convention, Sources of refugee Law and Principles of Interpretation
2. Well-founded fear
3. Persecution
4. The Convention Reasons and Causation
5. Procedure and evidence before the First-tier Tribunal
6. Counties of Nationality and Habitual residence, Statelessness and the Establishment of Nationality
7. Particular Categories of Asylum Seeker
8. Cessation, Cancellation and Exclusion
9. The Protection Owed to Refugees
10. Common European Asylum System and Subsidiary or Humanitarian Protection
11. Asylum and the Human Rights Convention
12. Claiming Asylum in the UK
13. Treatment of Asylum Seekers
14. Third Country Cases
15. Procedure Before the First-tier Tribunal; Evidence Before the Immigration and Asylum Chambers
16. Challenging the First-tier Tribunal and Procedures in the Upper Tribunal
2. Well-founded fear
3. Persecution
4. The Convention Reasons and Causation
5. Procedure and evidence before the First-tier Tribunal
6. Counties of Nationality and Habitual residence, Statelessness and the Establishment of Nationality
7. Particular Categories of Asylum Seeker
8. Cessation, Cancellation and Exclusion
9. The Protection Owed to Refugees
10. Common European Asylum System and Subsidiary or Humanitarian Protection
11. Asylum and the Human Rights Convention
12. Claiming Asylum in the UK
13. Treatment of Asylum Seekers
14. Third Country Cases
15. Procedure Before the First-tier Tribunal; Evidence Before the Immigration and Asylum Chambers
16. Challenging the First-tier Tribunal and Procedures in the Upper Tribunal