If you would like to find out, and put your own questions forward as to the current immigration system of the UK, then join our panel discussion on ‘Asylum Seekers’ Rights’, to be held on the 10th November 2008, at 6:30 pm until 8 pm at the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London. The discussion will be followed by a drinks reception at the South Cloisters.

Get the scoop on the points of view of the government, a barrister and an NGO!  Our excellent speakers will make sure that no question of yours is left unanswered! Lin Homer, the Chief Executive of the UK Borders Agency, Raza Husain, a Matrix Chambers barrister specialized in immigration law, and Catherine Meredith of the AIRE Centre, who worked on the Council of Europe’s Asylum Book this year, will do their best to answer your questions. Hugo Storey, a Senior Immigration Judge of the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal will conduct the discussion!

What do you think about the draft Immigration and Citizenship Bill? What do you think about the new ‘exclusion orders’? Should we deport terminally ill failed asylum applicants? If you would like hear what the government’s, a barrister’s and an NGO’s points of view are on these issues, then come along on the 10th November!

The discussion will be followed by a drinks reception at the South Cloisters.