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Justice at Risk: quality and value for money in asylum legal aid
19-07-2010 · Research Reports
This report, produced by Refugee and Migrant Justice in partnership with Asylum Aid, identifies the key elements of high quality legal representation in asylum work. The research then establishes the key role that quality legal representation has to play in a cost effective decision making system. It then argues that the present LSC funding system acts to prevent quality provision.
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Cost of Quality Legal Advice Review
19-07-2010 · Research Reports
This review, produced by Refugee and Migrant Justice in partnership with Asylum Aid, has found evidence that poor quality asylum work costs much more in the longer term both to the public purse and in human terms to individual asylum applicants. The evidence suggests that the LSC’s Graduated Fee Scheme for legal aid work, combined with the low threshold level of quality at which legal aid providers can enter and operate in the UK market for asylum advice may generate short term savings but cost more in the long term.
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Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum 2 years on: impacts and actions
01-07-2010 · Research Reports
This report has been released to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum. It highlights the positive impact that the Charter has had upon the debate around women seeking asylum in the UK, but also emphasises how much more remains to be done
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Every single woman - campaign briefing
27-11-2009 · Research Reports
This report finds that a change of culture designed to produce a genuinely gender sensitive asylum system is urgently needed to ensure that women asylum seekers receive a comparable standard of treatment to women in similar situations who are settled in the UK.
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Every single woman - extended briefing
27-11-2009 · Research Reports
This report finds that a change of culture designed to produce a genuinely gender sensitive asylum system is urgently needed to ensure that women asylum seekers receive a comparable standard of treatment to women in similar situations who are settled in the UK.
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