Asylum Law and Practice

'Asylum remains a hugely important area of law, deeply affecting the lives of very many people: the nation's approach to it is a touchstone of our humanity.' - from the foreword to the second edition by The Rt Hon The Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Haywood.
This is the leading practitioner textbook dealing solely with the law and practice pertaining to all aspects of asylum in the UK. It is a decade since the last edition published, since when much has happened in this area, with the most significant being Brexit.
The third edition will be the first post-Brexit refugee practitioner work. It will also give full consideration of the impact of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 on practice and procedure.
The third edition covers:
- Credibility assessment: UNHCR and Beyond Proof, language analysis, family tracing, assessing belief and sexuality
- Assessing risk: assurances, shifting burdens of proof and duties of enquiry, the relevance of inability to return
- Persecution: conscientious objection, future expression of fundamental rights
- Developments in the understanding of vulnerability: the interaction of refugee law with trafficking, statelessness and gender preference issues
- Exclusion for wrongdoing, for access to rights akin to nationality, and for non-UNHCR protection
- Cessation of status: family members, change of circumstances, and relevance of internal relocation
- Third country cases: returns under and beyond Dublin 3, third country returns post-Brexit
- Procedures - asylum claims in detention, delays in determining claims, family reunion
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Immigration and Nationality Law online service.

Mark Symes has represented clients in every court from the Tribunal to the Supreme Court, and the European Court of Human Rights. He sits as a part-time judge of the Upper Tribunal and First-tier Tribunal. He is a contributor to Macdonald's Immigration Law and Practice and has long been one of the experts who specialist immigration lawyers go to, in order to make sure they are up to speed with the latest legal arguments. He has spoken at the conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges.