Our member Nicholas
Blake has been appointed President of the Immigration and
Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal in the UK, which is to be established in
2010.
On behalf of the Council, the IARLJ President Sebastiaan de Groot
has congratulated Mr Blake with his honourable appointment.
A report from John Barnes on the Common European Asylum Systems, which he presented at a workshop in Budapest in October 2009; this commentary about the CEAS is of
general interest to IARLJ members also outside Europe.
A new book entitled Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum
Adjudication
and Proposals for Reform has just been published. This
book might be of
particular interest to IARLJ-members >>>
Training of Trainers (TOT) on International Refugee law from 11 to 13 November 2009 at the Higher Training Institute of the Magistracy in Rabat, Morocco - in cooperation with IARLJ and UNHC.
The European Chapter of the IARLJ organises a workshop
"Effective Interaction?":
The Role of the European Court of Justice and NationalCourts and Tribunals inEU Asylum Law, with
particular reference to the Qualification Directive
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