Author: Rudolph Spurling

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Rudolph Spurling

Rudolph started law-school at the age of 41 and re-trained as a barrister, since when he has practised in immigration law, focussing mainly on asylum and human rights at One Pump Court in London. He is a regular fixture in the First-tier and Upper Tribunals and appeared in the current country guidance cases on the persecution risks for returnees to post-civil war Sri Lanka (2013) and Iranian Kurds (2018). Before coming to the Bar, he had a varied work history as a freelance lexicographer, research assistant on the Survey of English Usage at University College London (1989-90), Teacher of English and the methodology of teaching in China (1991-1994), and a local government officer at the London Boroughs of Camden (1995-6) and Hammersmith & Fulham (1996-2005).

Under the sub-heading “Interpretation of Refugee Convention“, clauses 27-35 of the Nationality and Borders Bill 2021 seek to accomplish four main tasks: Translate some EU asylum law, currently residing in secondary legislation, into primary legislation. Turn back the clock on core principles of asylum law in relation to the identification...

16th July 2021
BY Rudolph Spurling
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