Oxford LibGuides: People on the move: laws & HR responses: UK law

Useful UK websites

UK Immigration Rules
Official website. The date of the last update to the rules is clearly given.
UK Seek Protection or Asylum
Official website. Links to sections on
Claim asylum in the UK
Settlement: refugee or humanitarian protection
Asylum support
Asylum helplines
Refugee integration loan
Find an immigration adviser
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
Official website "The Chief Inspector is appointed by the Home Secretary to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the performance of functions relating to immigration, asylum, nationality and customs. He reports annually to the Home Secretary ..." Library of inspection reports available free.
UK Migration Statistics
UK Home Office statistics (taken from UK Border Agency figures) includes Asylum application tables.

UK commentary

For legislation, case law and commentary (including articles in legal journals) holders of an Oxford SSO should use the three databases below

Justis
Our subscription includes Immigration Appeal Reports from 1972

Alternative names: Justis ; JustisOne ; Justis One; vLex Justis

Due to licensing restrictions this database is not available to "Walk-in" users of the library.
Justis One offers access to a range of law reports, transcripts and other materials from the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean, and the EU.
In addition it includes the full text of the following: Aspinall's Maritime Law Cases, English Reports, State Trials, CCH Tax Cases, Immigration Appeal Reports, Inquest Law Reports, Mental Health Reports, Session Cases Archive, Irish Reports & Digest, Jersey Law Reports, Bermuda Law Reports, Cayman Islands Law Reports, The Singapore Law Reports, and the International Law Reports.
Justis One offers the ability to search across UK, Irish, Australian and Canadian judgements.
Also included in the service are Justis Parliament and Justis Human Rights.
LexisLibrary
This resource requires you to log in with your Oxford SSO again at the homepage.

Alternative names: LNB ; Lexis Nexis Butterworths Lexis Library

Lexis Nexis Butterworths (LNB) includes primary and secondary legal materials from the UK, EU, USA and many other jurisdictions.
It has particularly good collections of UK cases and in particular includes The Law Reports and The All England Law Reports, as well as many specialist series of reports. It is also a good source of UK legislation as it includes all UK Acts and Statutory Instruments as they currently stand.
LNB is also an excellent source of US primary legal materials and includes a huge amount of legal commentary from the UK and the US.
Lexis content formerly provided via the Lexis Nexis Professional interface is now available via LNB which replaces Professional.
Westlaw Edge UK
Alternative name: West Law UK ; Westlaw UK

Westlaw is provided through a generous donation by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Westlaw is a large database of UK, US and international legal materials including cases, legislation and journal articles.
Coverage:
•UK statutes, statutory instruments and law reports
•England and Wales law reports
•US federal and state legislation and law reports
•Australian federal and state legislation and law reports
•Canadian federal and state legislation and law reports
•Hong Kong SAR law reports and laws
•European Union legislation and law reports
•UK and US law journals and texts
•Common Law Library and over 200 books published by Sweet & Maxwell (Thomson Reuters)
Because of licencing restrictions this database is not available to "Walk-in" users of the library.

UK Asylum and Immigration law

Halsbury's Laws of England at KZ1 will give you the "busy practitioner's overview" .
SOLO may show that some titles are in the Law Reserve Collection. More, in depth treatments, will be found on open shelf in the shelf mark range KM176 - KM177.7

To find more in depth treatment on this topic do a subject search in SOLO using:

Asylum, Right of

Emigration and immigration law

Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc

Deportation

Citizenship