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Fairness and the right to legal aid in asylum and asylum related cases

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International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Volume: 2, Issue: 3, Start page: 245

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DOI (Published version): 10.1504/IJMBS.2016.077643

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There is growing evidence that incremental restrictions on the provision of civil legal aid for immigration and asylum matters in the UK, over the past decade, has culminated in an unfair system that denies a number of asylum seekers and refugees effective and fair access to justice. In particular,...

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Published in: International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
ISSN: 1755-2419 1755-2427
Published: 2016
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