Justice at Risk: Cost and Quality in Asylum Legal Aid
The Cost of Quality research has been commissioned by Refugee and Migrant Justice, in partnership with Immigration Advisory Service and Asylum Aid, and is supported by The Baring Foundation. It is being carried out by the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees and City University. Guidance, support and advice is provided to the research project by a steering group with membership from The Law Society, Immigration Law Practitioners' Association, Ministry of Justice, Legal Services Commission, UK Border Agency, Law Centres Federation and AdviceUK.
The overall aim of the research is to quantify the cost of providing quality legal advice to asylum applicants in the UK. This is to be achieved through the literature review, an analysis of the costs and quality of work of a number of legal aid providers in three regions of the UK and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, including refugees and asylum decision makers. It reviews existing evidence from commentators on the likely impact of fixed fees on quality and demonstrates that current rates for the fixed fee were not based on evidence of actual costs to providers. It also examines evidence from the published evaluation of the Solihull Early Legal Advice Pilot.
The research is developing powerful new insights into the relationship between time, cost, and the quality of publicly funded asylum legal work from the perspective of those receiving, delivering, and funding advice. The final results of the research will be available at the end of 2010.
Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ) have published three reports written by ICAR as a part of this project.
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Last Updated: 21/09/10
