ABSTRACT
In April 1996 the Asylum Rights Campaign (ARC) published a report entitled “The Risks of Getting it Wrong”: The Asylum and Immigration Bill Session 1995/96 and the Determinations of Special Adjudicators (the Report). 1 ARC is an umbrella organisation of over 100 organisations members, all of which work on refugee and asylum issues. ARC commissioned the Report for use as a tool for lobbying on the Asylum and Immigration Bill (the Bill) and related measures, then going through parliament, and to contribute to its ongoing work in this field. The Report is a statistical and qualitative analysis of 622 determinations of Special Adjudicators of the Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA) promulgated in the second half of 1995. As such it is based upon empirical research and has been described as “the only detailed [analysis] of the way in which adjudicators … reach their decisions”. 2
