This website’s resources will provide the public, researchers and teams of students with materials that will facilitate their observations at bail hearings or other aspects of their project.
The two BOP reports (see Publications)
CCC BOP guidance on bail for judges 2018
What should happen in a well-run bail hearing?
Notes on immigration judge training
Publications
The Bail Observation Project has published two full reports on their findings. These are available to download as PDF files.
Immigration Bail Hearings: A Travesty of Justice? Observations from the Public Gallery (2011)
Still a Travesty: Justice in Immigration Bail Hearings (2013)
The Liberty Deficit: Long-term Detention and Bail Decision-making, Bail for Immigration Detainees (2012)
A Nice Judge on a Good Day: Immigration Bail and the Right to Liberty, Bail for Immigration Detainees (2010)
Irene Brueghel and Eva Natamba, Maintaining Contact: What Happens When Detained Asylum Seekers Get Bail? South Bank University, Social Science Research Papers, no. 16, (2002)
We would be happy to add publications about immigration bail if you send details of them to us. See Submit a report