Immigration Law Summit - Psychology Issues in Preparing and Presenting Refugee and Immigration Cases
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Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
Psychology Issues in Preparing and Presenting Refugee and Immigration Cases
- How to brief an expert and funding issues
- How to use and apply a report: relevant sources, international conventions, jurisprudence, Tribunal jurisprudence recognising mental injury as capable of amounting to serious harm
- Introduction to relevant research on memory and psychology, including issues relevant to credibility assessments
Presented by Deborah Manning, Barrister, Landmark Chambers
Presenters
Deborah Manning
Deborah Manning is a New Zealand barrister specialising in human rights law including refugee and immigration law. From 2008-2011, she was a senior legal consultant to a Geneva human rights organisation which represents victims of grave human rights violations in the Arab region. She was co-counsel for the Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui, successfully representing him in the review of the first national security risk certificate issued in New Zealand from 2003- 2007. Deborah is an Executive Member of the Human Rights Foundation (first holding this Membership in 2002), and has been an Executive Member of the Refugee Council of New Zealand from 2000. She is the current convener of the Auckland District Law Society Refugee and Immigration Committee.