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AVID Visitor Handbook
  • Welcome
    • About AVID
    • About this Handbook
    • Introduction
    • Practicalities of visiting
    • Visiting Skills
    • What issues might someone raise and what can I do?
    • Step-by-step: Before, during and after a visit
    • Find a visitor group
    • Useful organisations
    • Introduction
    • Impacts of visiting
    • Vicarious Trauma
    • Vicarious Resilience
    • Moral Distress
    • Self-Care Strategies
    • Collective Care
    • Lived and Living Experience
    • Support from AVID
    • Introduction
    • Who, Why, When
    • Decisions to Detain
    • Lawfulness of Detention
    • People considered unsuitable for detention and statutory time limits
    • Demographics
    • Introduction
    • Essential Immigration and Asylum Law for Visitors
    • Detention Policy and Guidance
    • Introduction
    • Legal Framework
    • Why are people detained in the prison estate?
    • History of the use of prisons to detain people held under immigration powers
    • Additional layers of disadvantage
    • Criticisms on the use of Prison for Immigration Detention and Further Reading
    • Organisations offering legal advice & practical help in prisons
    • Introduction
    • Legal Advice and Representation
      • Why do people in detention need legal advice?
      • What is legal aid and what does it cover?
      • Who can give immigration legal advice?
      • The Legal Aid Agency Detained Duty Advice Scheme (DDAS) in IRCs
      • How do I know if a solicitor is doing a good job?
    • What can visitors do?
    • Introduction
    • Harms of detention: what safeguarding concerns do visitors come across in detention?
    • Policy and practice
    • A series of case studies
    • What can visitors do
    • Looking after your own wellbeing
    • Useful Organisations
    • Introduction
    • Immigration Bail Overview
    • Bail addresses and Home Office accommodation
    • Offering financial condition supporters/sureties
    • Refusal of bail and further bail applications
    • Bail with or without a legal advisor
    • Bail for people detained in the prison estate
    • Mandatory electronic monitoring for those facing deportation
    • Bail and removal directions
    • What can visitors do?
    • Life after release
    • Introduction
    • Policy Definitions
    • Being ‘liable to removal’ or ‘liable to deportation’ and Notices
    • Third Country Removals
    • Deportation
    • Getting on the plane
    • Assisted Voluntary Returns Schemes
    • The Early Removal Scheme
    • Family Returns Process
    • Consequences of being removed or deported for return to the UK
    • What can visitors do?
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  1. Legal Advice and Representation

Legal Advice and Representation

Why do people in detention need legal advice?What is legal aid and what does it cover?Who can give immigration legal advice?The Legal Aid Agency Detained Duty Advice Scheme (DDAS) in IRCsHow do I know if a solicitor is doing a good job?
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