The AIRE Centre

⚠️REMINDER⚠️

Our webinar for British students on the new residence permits is this Wednesday at 4pm.

With just over a month until the end of the transition period and even less time before the end of term, this is an essential event if you have not yet applied for the new permits!

Tune in to our Facebook live feed or register below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7416056209138/WN_cuO4iCXfTUGp45aE6_pm4w

The AIRE Centre is recruiting a project assistant for our UKNSF (EuroBrits) Bulgaria project.

We are looking for a Bulgarian speaker to join our team for a 3 month period.

Deadline for applications is 13 November.

https://www.airecentre.org/Pages/Category/recruitment

The AIRE Centre Team are doing the on Monday 5th October!

The team will be walking, running, rowing and jumping amongst other activities to raise funds for organisations providing free legal advice services.

Many advice agencies have reported a six-fold increase in demand as a result of the pandemic, with half facing the threat of closure. Your support is needed now more than ever!

Please support us if you can using the link below:

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=AIRECentre20&pageUrl=5

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The AIRE Centre is recruiting a legal caseworker intern for our UKNSF (EuroBrits) Greece project.

We are looking for a Greek speaker with a legal background to join our team for a 4 month internship.

Deadline for applications is 15 July.

https://www.airecentre.org/Pages/Category/recruitment

The AIRE Centre will be in Crete next week (10 - 17 June) offering confidential one to one information sessions for UK nationals about securing their residence rights in Greece.

The sessions are free and open to anyone in need of individual assistance, but we are trying in particular to reach those who do NOT have access to the internet or the phone.

Do you know any elderly or otherwise vulnerable individual who might benefit from these sessions? Please write to us to arrange a referral.

Email us at: [email protected] or text 0030 698 85 91 229 to request an appointment.

On Monday, January 13, 2020 at 01:00 pm, Mr Matthew Evans, Director at the AIRE Centre will deliver a webinar that aims to address concerns in relation to EU nationals and their non-EU family members with criminal records in the UK. A webinar is an online seminar available for you to watch on your desktop or mobile device.

Interested in watching?

Please register here https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&referrer=&eventid=2142933&sessionid=1&key=20BCF64FDE1AE971ACD8D5ECBB24EE2F®Tag=&sourcepage=register. After registering for the webinar you will receive confirmation email containing a link to the live event.

Unable to attend on the day?

The webinar is recorded so you can watch again. If you're unable to watch to the live event, register anyway and you will be sent a link to the recorded version as soon as it is available.

Event Registration

Are you an needing advice about your or advisor assisting someone in making an application? The Aire Centre in collaboration with Herbert Smith Freehills has produced a web app to support any EU citizen who is unsure about the settled status system and would like some reassurance as to their eligibility.

https://www.airecentre.org/am-i-eligible-to-apply-for-settled-status

Am I eligible to apply for Settled Status? The purpose of this app is to help establish whether you or your client are eligible to apply for settled status or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.

Following stakeholder consultations earlier this year Aire Centre is delighted to launch our Strategic Plan for 2019-2024. It provides the basis for our future work plans and is a benchmark against which we will measure our success over the next 5 years.

Read our strategic plan here https://www.airecentre.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=cf5b05b9-7f74-484a-9552-8ef2d9b61a14

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We have produced a series of information leaflets on including what happens in event of no deal. We also have translated versions in Slovak, Spanish and French. Usability is key - so please make people aware of resource!

https://www.airecentre.org/euss-info-sheets

Job Description

Job Title: Legal Caseworker Intern

Duration: 4 months

Days per week: At least 3 days a week

Start date: September 2019

Based: Bloomsbury, London

Description: Generally, Interns assist the Legal Director and Legal Project Managers with all aspects of preparatory work for the AIRE Centre's legal advice services and cases pending before the ECtHR, including:

• Legal research in support of cases
• Correspondence with the client, the court or other legal professionals
• Accompanying the legal team during hearings
• Keeping effective files

In addition to the above, interns may be requested to assist with:
• Undertaking research for articles, both for publications of the AIRE Centre, and for outside journals/publications.
• Undertaking projects in which the AIRE Centre is asked to take part;
• Legal research for the advice service
• Attending meetings/conferences/seminars on behalf of the AIRE Centre.

All Legal Work is supervised.

To be eligible you must:

• Have a completed law degree/GDL or equivalent
• Have a good understanding of the areas of Law in which the AIRE Centre works (EU Free movement, EU Migration, asylum etc)
• Have a good standard of written and spoken English.

All of our internships are unpaid; however, we do cover up to £12 of expenses for travel and lunch for the days worked at the office.

To apply, please send the following:
• Completed application and equality monitoring form
• A copy of your recent CV
• An example of a legal piece you have written (approximately 500)

Applications will not be considered unless all the documents requested are completed

Request for An Application form and documents from [email protected]

DEADLINE: Midnight FRIDAY 30 AUGUST 2019

Interviews will be held in September 2019 (tbc)

Telephone/Skype interviews can be conducted for overseas candidates

Our Europe Litigation Coordinator Markella Papadouli is speaking at the Cambridge Centre of Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) Summer Symposium, which will take place in Cambridge 1-5 July 2019. Markella will join a team of expert speakers who will discuss the several "Rs" of Human Trafficking (risks, rights, recovery etc). Full agenda and further details can be found here: http://www.ccarht.org/site/symposium/

Summer Symposium – CCARHT

Read all the latest news and developments from the AIRE Center in our Monthly Newsletter!

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*NEW* The AIRE Centre now has the fundraising feature on Facebook! We can now be your birthday charity.

Facebook fundraisers Create a Facebook fundraiser to raise money for a friend, nonprofit or yourself. Share your fundraiser with friends, get donations and reach your goal.

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The AIRE Centre Legal Charity in the UK specialising in European Human Rights Law

PRESS RELEASE: The AIRE Centre intervenes in challenge to the implementation of the “Dubs” scheme for the protection of vulnerable asylum-seeking children.
27 July 2018

189,400 unaccompanied asylum seeking children came to Europe between 2015 and 2017. Thousands still languish in hotspots and unofficial settlements in “deplorable” (Save the Children) and “totally inappropriate” (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) conditions. Over 2,000 of these children are in Greek camps, soon to face another winter in unheated tents. Nearly two years since the “Jungle” was dismantled, over 500 unaccompanied children remain in Calais, sleeping rough alongside unrelatedadults, and frequently subjected to verbal and physical attacks. These children, alone and desperate, are easy targets for traffickers seeking to exploit their vulnerabilities for personal gain.

In January 2016, Europol confirmed that 10,000 unaccompanied children have gone missing since their arrival in Europe, with many of them feared to have fallen victim to human trafficking. The EU also highlighted in a recent report that trafficking in the context of migration and asylum is an emerging trend.

The “Dubs Amendment” (Section 67 Immigration Act 2016) was passed to bring some of these very vulnerable children to safety in the UK. It was introduced to Parliament by Lord Dubs, who was himself brought to England at age six through the Kindertransport scheme that saved the lives of thousands of children in World War II.

But the Government has so poorly implemented the “Dubs scheme” legislation that Help Refugees has been forced to bring a legal challenge. The law required the Secretary of State to make arrangements to relocate ‘as soon as possible’ after the passing of the Act (which came into force May 2016) a number of refugee children to the UK from other European States, where they were languishing in the absence of proper legal, physical and psychological support. The number was to be determined by the Government ‘in consultation with local authorities.’ Although the House of Commons in the course of debates anticipated this number to be at least 3,000, the flawed consultation process resulted in a figure of 480 children being offered places, and only approximately 220 being brought to the UK.

On 25 and 26 July, the Court of Appeal of England & Wales (Civil Division) heard Help Refugees’ case. This is an appeal against a 2017 decision of the Divisional Court which held that the Government’s implementation of the Dubs scheme (and the consultation process) met the required standards. The AIRE Centre intervened in the Divisional Court, and was also granted permission to intervene in the Court of Appeal.

The UK has signed up to, and is bound by, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which requires administrative authorities to make the best interests of children a primary consideration in all actions concerning them. Founder and Senior Lawyer at the AIRE Centre, Nuala Mole, explains: “Our interventions highlight the relevance of the UNCRC to the implementation of the Dubs scheme and the conduct of the Government’s consultation. We believe that the Home Secretary has failed to comply with the requirements of the UNCRC, with very real impacts on incredibly vulnerable children across Europe who might otherwise stand to benefit from the scheme”.

Our intervention in this case is part of the AIRE Centre’s ongoing work with Separated Children in Judicial Proceedings and, in particular, with unaccompanied migrant children. The Centre has intervened on behalf of affected children before the European Court of Human Rights in many cases against Greece and Italy.

The AIRE Centre is represented in the Court of Appeal by Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC, Katie O’Byrne and Jennifer Robinson of Doughty Street Chambers, instructed by Sally Roe and Michael Quayle of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, all of whom are generously giving their services pro bono.

For further information, please contact [email protected]

We want to expand our Board of Trustees.

The AIRE Centre is an award-winning access to justice NGO based in Central London. Our impact is wide and felt by thousands of people who have benefited from our robust defence of the rule of law, and specifically our legal representation and interventions in both the domestic UK and European Courts.

In its 25th year, the AIRE Centre's remit is more relevant than ever, that is, to raise awareness of European legal rights and assist marginalised individuals and those in vulnerable circumstances to assert those rights. We do this by:

- Taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, and UK Higher Courts.
- Providing legal advice to other lawyers and advisers in the voluntary sector.
- Providing legal advice to individuals directly and providing representation in Immigration and Social Security Tribunals.
- Carrying out training and drafting reports and other publications.

To fulfil these objectives AIRE undertakes research, policy initiatives, casework and training across European and International law areas. Our work is carried out by a small but committed group of staff and volunteers, supported by an expert Board of Trustees.We are seeking applicants with expertise in the following areas:

- Chair of Board of Trustees
- Fundraising and Communications
- ICT
- Law

If you think you could bring something to the board table to enhance our work, through a combination of skills, experience or contacts, please visit our website at:

Trustee Recruitment · News · The AIRE Centre The AIRE Centre

We have an exciting Legal Research internship available for 2 candidates to work on our Western Balkans, Rule of Law Programme starting in September 2018!

To apply, please send the following documents to Ralitsa Peykova by the 10 July 2018.

A recent CV
Covering letter (maximum of one page)
A case summary of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in Krsmanovic v. Serbia Application No. 19796/14 (a maximum of two pages)

https://www.charityjob.co.uk/volunteer-jobs/the-aire-centre/legal-research-intern-western-balkans-rule-of-law-programme/572306?tsId=8

Today we celebrate , standing next to those who need us the most by providing free legal advice& representation before domestic& European Courts, training & advocacy!Join us in paying a tribute to those putting their lives in danger to flee persecution! We cAIRE!

The AIRE Centre needs your support to bring our legal challenge in the Court of Appeal against a Joint Met Police and Home Office initiative, Operation Nexus, that allows people to be deported from the UK without any convictions!

We are currently raising funds to continue to act pro bono in this case& we’re only £620 away from our crowdfunding target! Any donation, big or small, helps!

Join our efforts and help us challenge Operation Nexus now!
Link to donate can be found here: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/challenge-operation-nexus/

Challenging Operation Nexus The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) is a London based charity providing free legal advice on European human rights law and European Union law.