Update of the indispensable guide to asylum appeals by Mark Henderson, Rowena Moffatt, Alison Pickup and Monika Nollet
EIN is delighted to announce that the indispensable and ever-popular Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appealshas been updated and revised for 2023.
As with the previous electronic updates of the publication from 2009 onwards, the revised 2023 Best Practice Guide (or BPG, as it's commonly known) remains freely available to all.
You can access the revised 2023 BPG at www.ein.org.uk/bpg/contents. We encourage you to share this link widely.
Originally authored by Mark Henderson in 2003, the Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals is now on its eighth electronic update. This year's update was authored by Rowena Moffatt of Doughty Street Chambers and by Alison Pickup and Monika Nollet of Asylum Aid. EIN thanks all of the authors for their contributions. Rowena Moffatt again takes particular credit for her extensive input, which has been vital in producing the recent updates of the guide.
The BPG deals with the conduct of asylum and human rights appeals. It aims to provide the practical advice and information required to conduct each stage of the appeal according to best practice. The text is structured in roughly chronological order, starting with the Home Office's reasons for refusal letter followed by procedure, evidence, and presentation of the appeal, and concluding with using the determination.
The newly updated 2023 edition of the BPG seeks to state the law as at 1 May 2023, although significant developments between 1 May and 31 July 2023 have also been included. While the very recent Illegal Migration Act 2023 is not addressed its detail, the BPG does signpost areas where significant change is expected.
This year's update contains two new chapters: one on remote hearings (chapter 7A) and one on applications for costs in the First-tier Tribunal (chapter 42), both relatively recent but increasingly important developments.
The BPG is comprehensively linked to case law on EIN (making it easy for members of EIN to access the cited cases) and to legislation and resources on EIN and on external websites.
In addition, every paragraph of every chapter is individually bookmarked for easy reference - the name of each bookmark is the number of the paragraph (use the format, for example, https://www.ein.org.uk/bpg/chapter/3#3.34B to link directly to any paragraph).
The 2023 edition of the BPG has been funded by EIN. The updates in 2009, 2012 and 2015 were funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The 2018 update was funded by the Legal Education Foundation. The updates in 2018, 2020 and 2021 were supported by the Public Law Project.