Asylum law and practice

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History of the refugee convention, sources of refugee law and principles of interpretation -- 2. Well-founded fear -- 3. Persecution -- 4. The convention reasons and causation -- 5. Protection against non-state actors and Internet relocation -- 6. Countries of nationality and habitual residence, statelessness and the establishment of nationality -- 7. Particular categories of asylum seeker -- 8. Cessation, cancellation, and exclusion -- 9. The protection owed to refugees -- 10. Common European Asylum System and subsidiary or humanitarian protection -- 11. Asylum and the human rights convention -- 12. Claiming asylum in the United Kingdom -- 13 Treatment of asylum seekers -- 14. Third country cases -- 15. Statutory rights of appeal -- 16. Procedure before the First-tier Tribunal; evidence before the Immigration and Asylum Chambers -- 17. Challenging the First-tier Tribunal and procedures in the Upper Tribunal.