Subjects:

Immigration and Nationality Law

Contents:

Foreword by Rabinder Singh QC

Introduction

Part I - The Community legal framework

Section 1 - The new legal order created by the Community treaties

Section 2 - Human rights and Community asylum law

Section 3 - Enforcement of Community law and implementing legislation

Section 4 - Overview of Community asylum law

Part II - Implementation of the Reception Directive in the UK

Section 5 - General requirements of the directive

Section 6 - Key support requirements

Section 7 - Provisions for persons with special needs

Section 8 - Refusal and termination of support

Section 9 - Appeals

Appendices

A. Council Directive of 27 January 2003 laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers

B. Asylum Support (Amendment) Regulations 2005

C. Asylum-seekers (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2005

D. Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 194 –

January 2005

E. Information leaflet

F. Asylum procedures at Oakington Immigration Reception Centre

G. Asylum procedures under the Harmondsworth fast track pilot

H. Extracts from Immigration Border Control Asylum Team Best Practice Documents and Process Notices

I. PB 83 –

Duty to offer support, family unity, vulnerable persons, withdrawing support

J. Human rights obligations (excerpts from treaties and conventions)

Resources

Asylum Support: a practitioners’ guide to the EU Reception Directive is a clear and concise examination of the directive, its transposition into UK law and its implications for those advising asylum seekers. Part I gives a basic grounding in European Community law. Part II deals with the directive itself, and the steps which the UK has taken to implement its requirements.

Asylum Support: a practitioners’ guide to the EU Reception Directive will:-

• help advisers to interpret the new rules and asylum support regulations
• assist with challenges where domestic provisions appear to fall short of Community law standards.