Asylum Insights
Service 05 · Litigation Support & AdvisoryAsylum litigation support and country evidence advisory
Work that never reaches the bundle. Reading the respondent’s country evidence against its own sources, and briefing counsel on where it breaks — often more useful, and cheaper, than a second expert report.
- Output
- Written note or conference
- Turnaround
- 3–10 working days
- Often replaces
- A full expert report
What the instruction produces
Source-level audit of official country evidence
Reading the analytical summary against the annexed sources it claims to rest on, and identifying conclusions the material does not support.
Currency and completeness check
What has changed since the compilation cut-off, and what was never available in English to the compilers in the first place.
Critique of a competing expert report
Method, sourcing, scope, and any point where the other expert has strayed beyond their field or into the tribunal’s function.
Cross-examination briefing
A short list of questions with the documentary basis for each, and a candid note on which lines are unlikely to succeed.
Country guidance case strategy
What evidence a lead case would need, which propositions are realistically winnable on current material, and where the gaps are.
Sometimes the right advice is not to file expert evidence
Expert evidence has a cost beyond the fee. A report that is thin, out of scope, or filed late invites findings that damage the appeal, and a weak expert report is easier for a tribunal to reject than the absence of one. Where the respondent’s own material can be shown to undermine the refusal, submissions are often the better route, and the money is better spent on a medico-legal report or on counsel’s preparation. We would rather tell you that and take a smaller fee than write something that will not survive.
Send the decision letter and the hearing date. We will confirm scope and fee before doing anything else.
If a different instruction would serve you better, we will say so.
Every enquiry is confidential. Nothing is shared with immigration authorities or any government body.