The World of Home Office Presenting Officers

Campbell, John

Abstract

In the adversarial context of litigation conducted in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal, HOPO’s are elusive: they are only seen when they enter a Tribunal hearing room to defend a decision taken by the Home Office official to refuse asylum, bail or a criminal deportation. While HOPOs limit their interaction with barristers/advocates to avoid being put into a position to set out their case in advance of the hearing, their actions reflect their structural position in adversarial proceedings. This chapter draws on extended fieldwork in the British asylum system, and on observations and interviews with HOPOs to understand how they see their work; their views on other parties in the Tribunal; and how they argue different types of appeal.

Citation

Campbell, J. (2019). The World of Home Office Presenting Officers. In N. Gill, & A. Good (Eds.), Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives (91-108). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94749-5_5

• Acceptance Date: Jan 15, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Dec 5, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Feb 19, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 19, 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 91-108
• Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
• Series ISSN: 2947-9274
• Book Title: Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives
• ISBN: 9783319947488
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94749-5_5
• Related Public URLs: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319947488