An application for accreditation of this new training session is being submitted to both the Law Society and the Bar Council and news on the outcome will follow. We have heard from asylumlaw.org in the US that EIN is one of the most frequent starting points for visitors to their site. The latest addition of this kind, of special interest to EIN Members, is asylumlaw.org itself. They have created a meta-search engine covering all the main websites for country of origin information. They have also introduced a queries bulletin board for asylum representatives.
Access requires registration, which is free.
The websites that have recently been added to the Resources Directory include the Medical Foundation, the New Zealand Refugee Status Appeals Authority, the new Stonewall-Immigration site, the Legal Services Commission and the Law Society where you will find the Gazette. Please send us any recommended websites for inclusion in the Directory that you feel will be of interest to our members. There are now more than 5,000 case texts in the database, and the indexing of selected key Higher Court, European and Overseas judgments is well underway with a view to their being in the database very soon. The EIN Indexers Group has been expanded to deal with the expected increased volume of cases. The master list of the keyword index itself is now posted onto the Case Law bulletin board, where new keywords that are added, such as recently, ECtHR and ECHR Art.3, will also be posted.