Should Refugees Claim Asylum in the First Safe Country?

Professor Leslie Thomas KC interrogates the argument that refugees who come to the UK over land and have travelled through a number of ostensibly safe European countries on the way here should have claimed asylum in one of those countries, rather than travelling on to the UK. 

Clip from the longer lecture: Refugees: English Law's Protection or Persecution?

Professor Leslie Thomas KC

Professor Leslie Thomas KC

Professor of Law

Professor Leslie Thomas KC was appointed Gresham Professor of Law in 2020 and is one of the top rated silks in the country, ranked leading individual by both Chambers and the Legal 500 (2022). He was made a QC in 2014.

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