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Book review: Borderline Justice

17 May 2013 / Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC
Issue: 7560 / Categories: Features , Human rights
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The sub-title of this book “The fight for refugee and migrant rights” tells us that this is no tepid or dry textbook of immigration law.

Author: Frances Webber
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745331638
Price: £17.50

The sub-title of this book “The fight for refugee and migrant rights” tells us that this is no tepid or dry textbook of immigration law. It is much more:an expert and profoundly scholarly examination of the subject  - the author is also co-author of a standard text book. Yet at the same time it is imbued with the passionate commitment of an advocate.

Until her recent retirement Frances Webber practised as a barrister for over 30 years. For most of that period she represented the victims of an increasingly rigid and hostile system of border control. No one is better qualified to describe and analyse the intricacy of its rules, their application by the judges and administrators entrusted with it, and the impact of the whole apparatus on those it entangles.

In the 1960s I was

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