Read ASAP’s response the the government’s latest consultation on Legal Aid here!

In their well argued response to <em>Transforming Legal Aid</em> the Asy­lum Sup­port Appeals Project make the moral and prac­ti­cal cases for retain­ing legal aid for migrants of all kinds; includ­ing refused asy­lum seek­ers and show how imple­ment­ing the pro­posed changes would lead to many mis­car­riages of justice.

Down­load the doc­u­ment here.

A Poem by John Taylor

 

We’re all in it together

 

What was it that made Great Britain Great Was it tak­ing riches from oth­ers at a very fast rate Did we truly believe it was our right To feel supe­rior to oth­ers just because we were white Or was it that we recog­nised the mis­takes made in our … → Read More: A Poem by John Taylor

No Borders Film Screening

No Bor­ders is run­ning a film screen­ing next week on Mon­day the 28th Novem­ber. They’re show­ing two films — ‘In This World’ and ‘Those Left Behind’ — from 8.30pm at the Space Project, 37–38 Mab­gate Green (spaceproject.org.uk).

‘In This World’ 88 Min­utes — UK 2002

In This World is a 2002 British docu­d­rama directed by Michael … → Read More: No Bor­ders Film Screening

PAFRAS features in Guardian article on IAS Closure

PAFRAS fea­tures in a arti­cle on legal aid, the clo­sure of the Immi­gra­tion Advi­sory Ser­vice and access to Jus­tice pub­lished in today’s G2, read it here.

IAS Administration Discussed in the Lords

Immigration Advisory Service Administration

The demise of the IAS is noth­ing less than cat­a­strophic for access to jus­tice in the city of Leeds. The firm was con­tracted to deliver fully 97.1% of all legally aided asy­lum work in the city and over 70% of all legally aided asy­lum advice in West York­shire. Its demise leaves Hare­hills & Chapel­town Law Cen­tre, con­tracted to deliver just 52 cases per year, as the only legal aid provider in Leeds. … → Read More: Immi­gra­tion Advi­sory Ser­vice Administration

Lindholme IRC Criticised

The Inspec­torate made crit­i­cisms of the Immi­gra­tion Removal Cen­tre that cov­ered numer­ous areas, but, from the per­spec­tive of PAFRAS, four spe­cific areas of con­cern stand out, all of which relate to fun­da­men­tal detainee human rights. … → Read More: Lind­holme IRC Criticised

Grand Ceilidh for PAFRAS

to cel­e­brate 20 years of music for danc­ing Bandiera Rossa present: A Grand Ceilidh in aid of PAFRAS

fea­tur­ing live music by BANDIERA ROSSA!

All are wel­come, No pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence is nec­es­sary, And a splen­did time for all is guaranteed!

Sat­ur­day 21st May 7:30 … → Read More: Grand Ceilidh for PAFRAS

The Wages of Fear featured on Radio 4

In Feb­ru­ary, David Whyte, co-author of The Wages of Fear, pre­sented the research pub­lished jointly by PAFRAS and the Uni­ver­sity of Liv­er­pool on Radio 4’s Think­ing Aloud.

You can lis­ten again on the Radio 4 website.

Imprisoned and exploited

The immi­gra­tion detainees who work for next to nothing.

A report in the Guardian in 2 Jan­u­ary high­lights the links between wage exploita­tion of undoc­u­mented work­ers and the state. The report by Karen McVeigh shows how detainees at the pri­vately run Yarl’s Wood deten­tion cen­tre are paid as lit­tle as 50p per hour to per­form … → Read More: Impris­oned and exploited