BILA is an organsiation for insurers, insurance brokers, academic lawyers and practising lawyers; its membership is drawn from Britain and also from overseas. As well as being an association in its own right, it is the British chapter of the Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA). BILA’s website describes its work and gives details of its events, but most of the content - such as the Journal and the Research pages - is restricted to members.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission deals with appeals against deportation for national security or other public interest reasons. The Commission’s decisions are available on its website, together with a cause list and procedural rules.
The IPA is a professional association for insolvency practitioners; it is a recognised licensing body for insolvency practitioners (IPs) under the Insolvency Act 1986. The Regulations and Guidance section of the IPA website provides Statements of Insolvency Practice, a Code of Ethics, links to UK insolvency legislation and a guide to insolvency practitioners’ fees. There is also a searchable directory of IPs.
The International Association of Insolvency Practitioners brings together national insolvency regulators from around the world. Its website outlines its aims and activities and has a section devoted to profiling its members (the latter is under construction at the time of writing). Much of the site is restricted to members of the Association.
The Insolvency Service is an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Its function include the administration of the affairs of bankrupt individuals and insolvent companies, and regulation of insolvency practitioners. The Insolvency Service’s website provides guidance, consultation documents and other publications. It also makes available the Individual Insolvency Register, a directory of official receivers, a directory of insolvency practitioners and various other searchable directories.
The Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the UK’s Upper Tribunal is a superior court of record which hears appeals from the First-tier Tribunal. Its website makes available the Chamber’s determinations (decisions) and the decisions of its predecessor, the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. It also provides relevant legislation, procedural guidance and daily court lists.
Section of the Home Office website dealing with the UK’s immigration rules. Provides the current Immigration Rules and an archive of previous versions. Also makes available all the official Statements of Changes in Immigration Rules since May 2003.
The OISC is an independent UK non-departmental public body, set up under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. It regulates the provision of immigration advice and other immigration services. The OISC has information about finding a regulated immigration adviser and qualifying or working as a regulated immigration adviser. It also provides guidance for those who want to complain about an adviser. OISC publications are available on the site, including guidance notes, framework documents, practice notes, position papers and annual reports.
Open-access online journal published three times a year by the University of Cambridge. The Journal was first published in 2012; it covers international and comparative law and related domestic, regional, transnational and international legal regimes. An annual special issue is devoted to analysing the work of the UK Supreme Court in the previous judicial year. Contributions are subject to a double-blind peer review process. The CJICL website provides all issues of the journal free of charge, in pdf format. The site also has a blog and gives details of the Journal’s annual conference
Reprieve is a London-based charity providing legal representation and assistance for prisoners facing the death penalty and prisoners held beyond the rule of law, for example at Guantanamo Bay; it also investigates and campaigns on issues such as drone attacks and extraordinary rendition. The organisation was founded by human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. The ‘Our Work’ page of its website provides reports, responses to consultations and other publications, together with information and documentation relating to Reprieve investigations and particular prisoners’ cases.
