Centre for the study of

    Emotion&Law

Registered Charity No. 1120257

 

Registered Office

 7, Devonshire Street, London W1W 5DY

This page lists some of the ways in which we aim to ensure that our research findings are disseminated in such a way that they can be read and understood by decision makers working in the asylum system, and policy makers who are in a position to think about how best this system should work.

Jane Herlihy (Director) is an associate  member of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ).  She sits on two working parties : one on the use of expert evidence in asylum appeal courts, the other on the treatment of vulnerable persons in asylum courts.  The working party on vulnerable persons is led by Catriona Jarvis, one of the trustees of CSEL.  This working party is currently engaged in writing guidelines for appeal courts around the world.

Hugo Storey, a Senior Immigration Judge in the UK said recently : “the work of the IARLJ Working Parties is taken increasingly seriously in important quarters”.

Catriona Jarvis (Trustee) trains Immigration Judges in the UK and elsewhere.

Jane Herlihy appeared on BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind on July 10th, 2007.  Click here to hear the broadcast.

Jane Herlihy and Stuart Turner (Chair of Board of Trustees) will be training at the Immigration Law Practitioners Association in April, 2008.  More details at www.ilpa.org.uk.

Our research is only published, in the first instance, in peer reviewed, scientific journals, such as the British Journal of Psychiatry and the British Medical Journal.