Course Content

 

BCPS OISC Level 3 course is designed to fully train the students. You will be provided with advocacy training and legal drafting training with individual supervision of tutor.

 

The Course Content includes ;

 

Detailed knowledge of immigration and nationality law, including:

 

•  Detailed knowledge of immigration, asylum and nationality law, including:

• grounds for complex applications in the areas of work in which advice/services are provided

• The Home Office and the Immigration Tribunal practice in the consideration of appeals and complex cases

• The Home Office concessionary/discretionary policies in complex cases

• grounds of appeal to the Immigration Tribunal, including human rights and race relations grounds.

 

 

Advocacy skills Syllabus includes :

 

• How to draft full grounds of appeal to the Immigration Tribunal.

• How to draft witness statements.

• How to draft skeleton arguments and other relevant documents for Immigration Tribunal cases.

• statements and other relevant documentation for higher court work.

• Knowledge of relevant rights of appeal, time limits and procedures at the TSIA up to, and including, full hearings before the TSIA, and sufficient awareness of rights and procedures in relation to judicial/statutory review to make appropriate referrals to a solicitor.

• Knowledge of relevant case law and precedents

• Knowledge of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Human Rights Act 1998, the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 and other relevant international law 

 

 Interviewing and Advising :

 

The ability to explain clearly to a client in plain language the progress of their case, including any appeal, the outcome of a hearing, the implications for the client and the options open to them. Also to be able to advise on the merits of further appeals and take clear instructions from the client as to how they wish to proceed.

 

Drafting :

The ability to draft in clear, written English, making use of case law and human rights legislation, where appropriate: complex applications complex letters, statements and representations