The 6th Kay Everett Memorial Lecture: Five Moments in Refugee Law
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 03/07/2023

18th May 2023
DELIVERED BY MARK SYMES, BARRISTER, GARDEN COURT CHAMBERS

In this year's Kay Everett Lecture, barrister Mark Symes discusses seminal changes vis-á-vis the UK’s approach to refugee law:

- Assessing truth – the rise and fall of the low standard of proof
- Persecution – did the key moment to properly address discrimination as persecution irrevocably pass?
- Protection – when exactly was it appreciated that protection had to be effective?
- Armed conflict – was the opportunity to help civilian victims of armed conflict missed?
- European Union law – the UK’s embrace and rejection of the Common European Asylum System