Asylum Insights
Service 06 · NGO & Legal Aid SupportExpert support for NGOs and legal aid practitioners
The same evidential standard, scoped to the funding that actually exists. Short-form expert letters, advisory opinions, and research supporting country guidance litigation and policy submissions.
- Fee basis
- Fixed, scoped to funding
- Common output
- 3–8 page expert letter
- Turnaround
- 1–3 weeks
What the instruction produces
Short-form expert letters
A single proposition addressed properly and sourced, in a form a tribunal can rely on, at a length legal aid rates can support.
Advisory opinions before commitment
An honest view on whether expert evidence would help, before a funding application is made or a prior authority sought.
Country research for policy work
Sourced research supporting submissions, country guidance interventions, and third-party interventions.
Casework capacity support
Where a law centre or NGO has volume and no in-house country expertise, recurring instructions handled to a consistent standard.
Why the short form is often the honest form
A great deal of what makes expert reports long is defensive padding: general country background nobody disputes, source lists included to signal effort, and restatement of the account already in the bundle. Strip that out and what remains is the expert’s actual contribution, which in many cases is three or four pages of tightly sourced analysis on one contested point. That is not a lesser product. It is the product, without the material that was there to justify the fee.
Related instructions
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.