Module Descriptors
IMMIGRATION
LAWS70653
Key Facts
Faculty of Business, Education and Law
Level 7
0 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities:
Independent Study Hours:
Total Learning Hours:
Assessment
- EXAMINATION - OPEN BOOK EXAMINATION IN EXAMINATION CONDITIONS weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None
Module Texts
CLP Immigration handbook (annually updated)
Module Resources
Lecture and workshop materials. Blackboard. On-line resources.
Module Additional Assessment Details
Assessed by one 3 hour written assessment with a formative assessment and one to one feedback.
Module Indicative Content
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Articles of the ECHR
2. absolute and qualified rights tests
3. Articles of the Convention
4. Human Rights and Immigration and Asylum law
RIGHTS OF ABODE
1. statutory provisions
2. secure client's objectives.
3. alternative legal provisions
4. application procedure.
5. risks on agreed course of action.
6. appeal procedure
LAWFUL IMMIGRATION
1. Immigration Rules.
2. Burden and standard of proof.
3. identify appropriate Immigration Rule
4. Powers of Entry Clearance Officers and Immigration Officers,
5. relevance and duty of UK based sponsors.
6. applying inside and outside of the UK for lawful immigration.
7. application procedure and time scales
UNLAWFUL IMMIGRATION
1. unlawful immigration.
2. distinction between immigration offences and criminal conduct
3. when lawful immigration becomes unlawful immigration
4. administrative removal and deportation
5. powers of the Police and Immigration Officers,
6. impact for the family members.
REFUGEE CONVENTION
1. definition of a refugee.
2. asylum claimants and refugee under the Convention.
3. European Convention and the Refugee Convention.
APPEALS
1. procedures
2. legislative provisions
3. burden and standard of proof
4. appeal hierarchy
CASE ANALYSIS
1. Asylum and Human Rights appeal.
2. procedural and evidential requirements
1. Articles of the ECHR
2. absolute and qualified rights tests
3. Articles of the Convention
4. Human Rights and Immigration and Asylum law
RIGHTS OF ABODE
1. statutory provisions
2. secure client's objectives.
3. alternative legal provisions
4. application procedure.
5. risks on agreed course of action.
6. appeal procedure
LAWFUL IMMIGRATION
1. Immigration Rules.
2. Burden and standard of proof.
3. identify appropriate Immigration Rule
4. Powers of Entry Clearance Officers and Immigration Officers,
5. relevance and duty of UK based sponsors.
6. applying inside and outside of the UK for lawful immigration.
7. application procedure and time scales
UNLAWFUL IMMIGRATION
1. unlawful immigration.
2. distinction between immigration offences and criminal conduct
3. when lawful immigration becomes unlawful immigration
4. administrative removal and deportation
5. powers of the Police and Immigration Officers,
6. impact for the family members.
REFUGEE CONVENTION
1. definition of a refugee.
2. asylum claimants and refugee under the Convention.
3. European Convention and the Refugee Convention.
APPEALS
1. procedures
2. legislative provisions
3. burden and standard of proof
4. appeal hierarchy
CASE ANALYSIS
1. Asylum and Human Rights appeal.
2. procedural and evidential requirements
Module Learning Strategies
Immigration is taught with 9 x 1 hour lecture sessions and 9 x 2 hour workshop sessions and 4 hours of self-study materials. Additionally, for students following a blended-learning mode of delivery there will be on-line activities.