Centre for the study of

    Emotion&Law

Registered Charity No. 1120257

 

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 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 attended a round table meeting of psychological and psychiatric researchers in Bielefeld, discussing the application of psychological and psychiatric knowledge in asylum decision making and in the treatment of asylum seekers across different countries in Europe.  A position paper is forthcoming from this meeting.

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 drafting 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”.

In January, 2009, Jane Herlihy attended the IARLJ biannual meeting in Cape Town, where the working parties’ guidelines were presented for approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In May 2008, Jane Herlihy presented the work of CSEL to the Best Practices For Refugee Status Determination: Principles And Standards For State Responsibility conference in Prato, Italy.  This conference was attended by state and UNHCR decision makers and Judges from around the world, including the UK.

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

Jane Herlihy was invited to help draft the first full report of the Independent Asylum Commission, Saving Sanctuary.  This report addressed the  UK asylum decision making process.  Read the report here.

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) conducted an invited training session at the Immigration Law Practitioners Association in April, 2008.  More details at www.ilpa.org.uk.

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

Jane with Tony North, President of the IARLJ 2005-09, and Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cape Town, South Africa.