I designed this research to capture concerns about access to justice arising out of BID's legal casework with administrative detainees held within a criminal justice framework. Immigration detainees held in the prison estate suffer from multiple, systemic, and compounding practical barriers to accessing justice, with a serious effect on their ability to progress their immigration case, seek independent scrutiny of their ongoing detention from the courts and tribunals, and seek release from detention, as well as on their physical and mental wellbeing.
I used evidence from this research in an oral evidence session and in written evidence on behalf of BID to the joint APPG on Refugees and the APPG on Migration Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom, 2014-2015