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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
    • Introduction
    • Legal Advice and Representation
    • What can visitors do?
      • Finding a legal advisor
      • Finding a legal advisor for a person detained under immigration powers in the prison estate
      • Notify a legal representative that their detained client has been moved to another IRC
      • Help a person in detention to understand what they can reasonably expect of their lawyer
      • Give Information
      • Visitors and legal advisors: constructive relationships
      • Help if there are problems with the current legal representative
      • Acting as a McKenzie Friend
    • 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
    • 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

What can visitors do?

Finding a legal advisorFinding a legal advisor for a person detained under immigration powers in the prison estateNotify a legal representative that their detained client has been moved to another IRCHelp a person in detention to understand what they can reasonably expect of their lawyerGive InformationVisitors and legal advisors: constructive relationshipsHelp if there are problems with the current legal representativeActing as a McKenzie Friend
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