30/10/2024 – Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Online seminar)

Wednesday 30 October, 5-6pm, Online
Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Professor Başak Çalı (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford), Professor Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Yasmine Ahmed (UK Director of Human Rights Watch), Professor Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre)

Registration required. Register here.

This seminar analyses asylum in the UK at a critical political and legal juncture. Following the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, Illegal Migration Act 2023, and Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024, the ‘new’ Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced an end to the UK’s migration and economic development partnership with Rwanda and new legislation.

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill is likely to include measures allowing ‘fast-track decisions and returns to safe countries’ and ‘stronger powers to disrupt, investigate and prosecute organised criminals facilitating organised immigration crime‘. Our expert panel will analyse these developments, considering access to asylum, the impact of the AAA [2023] UKSC 42 litigation, the relationships between non-refoulement, non-penalisation, and non-discrimination, and the UK’s role in upholding international law.

The seminar ends by considering what taking a progressive, rights-protective, approach to protection in the UK could and should involve.