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Access to Legal Services for Asylum-seekers in Britain Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE DETERMINATION OF ASYLUM APPLICATIONS REFUGEE STATUS PROCEDURES LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ADMISSION ASYLUM SEEKERS This paper examines asylum determination procedures in the UK, and argues that these are founded on the principle of immigration control, rather than on assessing each application for asylum on its merits. As a result, asylum-seekers require legal services to pursue their claims. However, a number of new policies are being implemented simultaneously. Changes to the asylum support policy, and to the system of providing publicly-funded legal services, are being implemented at the same time as the Home Office is increasing the speed with which it makes decisions, and is making a concerted effort to reduce the backlog of cases. The paper seeks to assess the impact of these changes so far, and concludes that each of them represents a significant challenge to legal practitioners, and that collectively they risk leading to an intolerable pressure on service providers, as a result of which asylum-seekers will find it extremely difficult to gain access to the legal advice that they need. 2026-09-30T12:00:27Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33360435.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Access_to_Legal_Services_for_Asylum-seekers_in_Britain/33360435 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0